I live in a place that has high vehicle theft rates and I'm considering to do some security upgrades on my 99 CRV if it's to easy to override the factory security. Granted I know many vehicle thefts are as a result of the vehicle being towed away so I understand that beefed up security won't prevent that, ie you don't need to tell me that fact

How easy is it to steal a Gen 1 CRV with factory immobiliser(chipped ignition key), I'm assuming you need to swap the ECU/some computer box and then either use a matching key chip for the swapped box or the swapped box will have the immobiliser disabled so they can force the ignition lock and start the car, drive off with it?

 

If someone knows what the Immobilizer disables, it is not very difficult to bypass it to steal the vehicle. However, most thieves won't bother.

 

By that you mean it's an old vehicle that's not particularly desirable to thieves?

 

In part only.

The thieves would have to understand what is being disabled on Hondas, which is not hard to figure out from circuit diagrams, asking someone, etc.

Then they have to locate the correct wire to directly provide power to that component.

 

Thanks, what did you mean by "However, most thieves won't bother."?

 

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BTW, 99-01 CR-V in the U.S. don't have the Immobilizer system. However, you're not in the U.S.; so, yours may be different.

 

Sorry man, I don't think you understand how a factory immo with chipped key works?

You can't often bypass them by "locating the correct wire to directly provide power to that component", you typically need to open an ECU/ECM case to do something to that effect which is a workbench job that takes hours, thieves typically use modified donor ecu's to quickly steal a vehicle with immo, unplug the stock ecu, plug in the donor start vehicle and go.

Unless you know for a fact that the CRV gen 1 has a vulnerability that allows easily bypassing the factory immo, which is what I'm trying to ascertain.

 

No dude, there is a quick way to provide power to a component that the immobilizer disables to get the car to run.

You probably don't understand the immobilizer system and what is being disabled.

 

That's what I'm trying to find out, some vehicles with factory immo that is possible others not so easy without ecu swop.
Do you know for a fact that on the Gen 1 it is or you just sucking your thumb and saying it is?

 

kill switch

 

That's what I was thinking of, what type of kill switch would you advise?
I was thinking of putting a kill switch in the fuel pump power wire

 

If you understood what was disabled...

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