Hi can anyone tell me how to get my 96 v8 landrover discovery started. I have had it for a few years as a farm vehicle. I don't have a remote and the key is so badly worn that it will only lock the doors but can't use it in the ignition. for the last year I Can't unlock the drivers side door so I get in the passenger side with the key and open it from the inside. All worked well for the lst couple of years. ( the steering lock is removed and the electric loop to sense the key is gone. I just start with a screwdriver. Today after coming back from a two month trip ( in another vehicle) the immobiliser light came on. ( the rear door seized up and in getting it open from the inside I must have tripped the immobiliser) I have gone through the web and followed the instructions re installing a spider loopback plug but after removing the dash I find there is alredy one in. I would like to bypass the immobilizer - never mind about the windows etc s they don't work. I found instructions on the forum as follows " to locate the green box in the passenger footwell On the small plug there are two wires that areblack with red/orange stripe.( Solid black and red/orange stripe.) Cut thesetwo wires on the loom side only and twist them together. Leave enough wire incase you have to put them back together again. ( This is an immobilizer fix andnot an alarm fix.)" m I on the right track or will this just have me worse off?? Hope someone can help otherwise it is off to the wreckers cause I am stumped. If you are worried about giving hotwire instructions on a public forum perhaps you could advise me by direct emil

 

thank you so so much for this post i had a land rover discovery one which was immobilized 170 km from home after trying to put in eka code ect to no avail and car was stuck in a city with the prospect of being impounded from parking spot and over 3 trips back and forth on public transport trying to find help mechanics auto lecs ect to no avail cut the red orange and black orange wire which worked thank you thank you thank you.drove 170 km home and spoke to auto elec which said that was right thing to do noting after pulling green plug and cutting and crossing wires which got me mobile without any problem whatso ever. do not re insert the green plug no more immobilizer no problem... so glad i came across this forum saved my car

 

Nice work Trevor. Great use of the search function. Glad it worked out for you.

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