How to bypass the immobilizer and alarm on a Lotus Elise or Exige
The Lotus immobilizer and alarm are very troublesome, causing random false alarms, battery drain, and in some cases it can brick the car if you do not have the car’s unique PIN. If you do have the PIN, there is a method to disable all of these features while leaving the system intact, but I wanted to have it all removed entirely!
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Just finished! Watched this when you posted it and just now completed. YOU THE MAN! works like a charm. You're much appreciated.
Dude, thank you so much for this video! At first I thought my fuel pump was broken, but apparently it was actually the immobilizer and I wanted to get rid of it anyway. So I just followed your steps this past weekend and successfully revived my car with it! Super easy to follow and everything was exactly as described (just flipped for the alarm since mine is RHD). You saved me so much time and money with this.
What a relief to no longer have that stupid thing wake me up in the middle of the night for absolutely no reason. Thanks again!
Thanks Tony! I finally got around to doing this to get my car running again after a kill switch finally reset the immobilizer and I needed the code and horrible process to get it working again
Folks, I want to add one thing. When you go to remove the harness from the factory alarm, you will reach into the access panel on the passenger side. You will be working blind in the small area. The harness is removed by pulling UP. Just a little bit of info that might make your job easier. Hope it helps!
Oh just one more question! So the male and female parts of the harness do NOT need to be plugged together again after the jumps have been made to the female side? Thank you!
I like that gated shifter that you have. Was that from GRP? My question is this: after having the car sitting in the garage for a couple of months I switched the battery on (have a disconnect on it, has been there a long time) and the alarm is going of. Won't stop. Would this process that you did here in the video solve my problem? Thank you very much for making this video. The video quality is quite good, which we can appreciate from making videos on our channel:)
Couldn’t you just not lock the car with the fob then you wouldn’t have the alarm issue ?
How can I make the rev limiter light stop flashing? I already bypassed and started the motor, but it keeps flashing
Holy crap. Thank you.
Could I do this AFTER the immobilizer has been activated? Bought my Elise used but I was not given a keyfob… and she is doing strange things lately including refusing to start.
Rather than cutting the harness behind the female plug and joining the cut wires, can you get a replacement male plug and wire 1 to 6 and 5 to 12 on the new replacement male plug? Any idea what that male plug type is?
As always, great video and presentation! I really wished DIY Lambo guys would upload more videos like this.