Immobilizer has been bypassed

Took several months but ECU doctors broke the code for the immobilizer, now my 456M starts every time with the turn of the key, also the fob locks and unlocks the doors as it should. They also did a 355 so I guess any bosch 5.2 system can be done. 355, 456 and 550. Anyone interested should give them a call. Jorge @ 800-328-1425 $875 but to me well worth it. You will have to send them both ecu's, the immobilizer and the immobilizer interface along with your fob.

 

No, but the pin code for the fob would be just to unlock and lock the doors along with the alarm, long as you have a key you can still do that and still start the car and drive off.

I am one of those guys who had one fob and one key, the fob has a bad connection in it and needed to be pressed hard in order to reset the immobilizer. So I could have spent $250 for a used fob and had it programed, but still would have had just a fob and a system that requires it. I hated the thought of being controlled by a push button. What if you sit on it or step on it and your traveling cross country? Your screwed! So you spend another $250 an have a spare programed? Bull S...t, I called these guys and they have been doing porsche immobilizer for a couple years so they thought it would be easy... it wasn't but I gave them 5 months with the units and they did it along with a 355 guy who felt the same way I did, now we are free of the cursed immobilizer. It was a wonderful feeling to just stick the key in and turn it and start just like my older Ferrari's. I did however purchase from a wrecked 456M GT (manual trans) the ecus and immobilizer, immobilizer interface and fob and used them in my GTA till they got it figured out. If anyone is interested in them let me know, I will sell complete for $1500. They are not bypassed.

 

It probably will be short for you guys, I'm just guessing but a week or so. I was the guinea pig.

 

WRXMike the immobilizer has a relay in that will allow the starter to engage, its has to stay but is jumpered so it will start, the code is sent from the immobilizer interface to the ecus which are matched to the interface. this is what is eliminated. Yes it all stays but the ecus are bypassed which means the IC's in the ecus are in an active ON state all the time so it doesn't care what the interface is sending to it, it just starts runs the injectors and ignition as a normal car. Why would you not get a new pin code and 3 new fobs.... Because your still stuck with a system that requires you to press a button to start the car and besides the cost is overwhelming. The immobilizer and interface still operate the alarm and door locks but NOT the disable function of the engine. Ferrari keys are $200+ bucks on ebay, you can buy 3 fiat keys for $10 that fit. Which one would you choose?

 

YES, me being one of them. If you want to keep original so be it, I hated the system from the moment I found out the button had to be pressed. To each his own.

 

I hope I can make this clear so not to confuse anyone. There is a chip in the ecu's that a digital code is stored, when it see's the correct code from the immobilizer it turns on the injectors and ignition. What they have done is bypassed the code chip so that power is on for ignition and injection all the time so the chip with the code is not in the circuit any longer. This was my understanding from Jorge. I would suggest calling them and talk to Jorge, the main man this way it comes from the horses mouth so to speak.

 

The modern technology sometimes has to be reversed, the immobilizer in my opinion was totally the wrong approach to a anti theft system. How many Ferrari's actually get stolen per year? I mean from a thief not from some guy who can't afford his payments. And if the car does get stolen its going to be stripped apart an sold on ebay craigslist or racing junk.com. The anti theft system is a big deterrent to a new guy looking to buy an older Ferrari with one key and one fob. This bypass opens up doors for the sale of cars (which are many) that only have one fob and no pin code. And for the owners who kept or sold fobs on ebay from Ferrari's with immobilizers SHAME ON YOU.

I recently bought a Mclaren MP4-12C, its an awesome car and comes with two fobs, there is no key, as long as you have the fob on your body you can start and drive the car. My wife and I took a 4900 mile trip in the car and we stopped at many places, I got out of the car and pressed the lock button and the horn would go off, the alarm would not energize, so I just left it. After sitting in the restaurant I asked my wife where her purse was, she said in trunk of the car, it contained the other key, so not only could I not lock it, but anyone could get in and drive off with it, just call me old fashioned, I like keys.

 

I am absolutely aware of the pin retrieval from the company in Australia and also the cost of it $1700?? or something like that with 3 fobs. I don't want the immobilizer on my car, if I had 3 fobs and the code I still don't want it. And its gone now for me and future owners.

 

Yep to each his own, I'm not advocating to change your system just telling everyone there is another option. There are many out there like me, one fob and no code and hate the press button control over starting your car.