[Vwdiesel] TDI immobilizer

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is an immobilizer?  When did VW introduce them?  

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Cook" <vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com>
To: "diesel list" <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] TDI immobilizer


> 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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