benny279
Registered User
Hi,
Today I tried to start my car to no luck, although it tries to start but for a measly 2 seconds then cuts out as if there isn't enough juice for it. I hooked it up on a friends vagcom to be greeted with "Engine start blocked by immobilizer".
Correctly so, I checked for other errors to find "Incorrect key" or something a long those lines...So I tried my spare key and that didn't work either threw same error. The only things work is lights, stereo (now thats in some sort of safe mode since disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it after 20 mins or so) but that isn't a big deal at the moment, I've tried to do my windows down and that didn't respond and putting the hazards on button blinks but no noise from it?
A friend of mine puts his money on it being a dead battery, though, looking through some other threads that isn't related to my car points at being bad earths, a bad cluster and such and I really don't fancy just guessing and throwing money at it when it could be a simple fix.
I must add that, there has not been any modifications done to the car recently but it did have it's exhaust clamp replaced but highly doubt that has any bearing on this issue.
Hopefully someone can point in me the right direction, or least give me some hints at what could be the most likely cause.
Thanks in advance!
Today I tried to start my car to no luck, although it tries to start but for a measly 2 seconds then cuts out as if there isn't enough juice for it. I hooked it up on a friends vagcom to be greeted with "Engine start blocked by immobilizer".
Correctly so, I checked for other errors to find "Incorrect key" or something a long those lines...So I tried my spare key and that didn't work either threw same error. The only things work is lights, stereo (now thats in some sort of safe mode since disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it after 20 mins or so) but that isn't a big deal at the moment, I've tried to do my windows down and that didn't respond and putting the hazards on button blinks but no noise from it?
A friend of mine puts his money on it being a dead battery, though, looking through some other threads that isn't related to my car points at being bad earths, a bad cluster and such and I really don't fancy just guessing and throwing money at it when it could be a simple fix.
I must add that, there has not been any modifications done to the car recently but it did have it's exhaust clamp replaced but highly doubt that has any bearing on this issue.
Hopefully someone can point in me the right direction, or least give me some hints at what could be the most likely cause.
Thanks in advance!