[Vwdiesel] TDI immobilizer

[David Cook]

Is it possible that the key needs a new battery to
send a signal to the immobilizer?

David

--- "S. Shourds" <sshourds at flash.net> wrote:

> Since I'm planning to drive from Dallas to Atlanta
> in a few days, the 
> car is balking.  I started it today and it stalled
> immediately.  "Weird" 
> thinks I.  Then it did it again.  I fired up the
> VAG-COM and I got the 
> immobilizer code (17978) and key voltage too low
> (01176), both 
> intermittent.  It's the original key I got with the
> car, but when I read 
> that, it's definitely what happens when the
> immobilizer is activated.  
> It started after that and is starting with varying
> success since. 
> 
> I seached the Bently CD and did a lot of poking
> around in the archives 
> of TDIclub.com and the VWVortex and got as much as
> maybe a bad contact 
> with the coil that picks up the signal from the chip
> in the key, but if 
> that's the case, or even where that connection is
> and got zippo.  Anyone 
> played that game before?  The '85 isn't up to the
> trip and I don't want 
> to have to rent a car to drive all that way.  It
> wouldn't be a Diesel. 
> 
> -Shalyn
> 
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David Cook
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and others in various states of disrepair
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