Does anyone appreciate the engine immobilizer?
07-09-2004, 09:44 PM
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Corolla Engine Immobilizer
The 2005 Corolla is the first year for this feature to be available on the car. It is standard now, the theft reports are from before this feature was on the car. Also, the report is not accurate. Remember, the Corolla is the number 1 selling car in the world, so there are a lot out there. If even 1 percent of all Corollas were stolen, then that would be a higher number of cars than a car that sold less units, but had a higger percentage stolen. 1% of 10,000 cars =100 cars; 10% of 500 cars = 50 cars.
07-09-2004, 10:56 PM
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well, all of you are wrong to certain extent.
All Toyota's have had immobilizers for past 4-5 years standard, at least european ones, including small Yaris (echo). In any case, your tC has it now. It is not something you see, it works in the background.
What it does is matches the code from the key with the code in the ecu and if they match, it will start the car. Newer cars have separate ECU for engine imobilizzer.
Only way to steal these cars, away from towing them away, is to replace both ecu and lock/key, so two can match each other. Early models had an issue with ECU being close to the ignition (A4 had this problem), so it was relativly easy to replace both at the same time. Newer cars have complicated ECU location which makes them really hard to remove, in most cases impossible unless you have 3-4 people working on it for 4-5 hours. We had to replace one on Avensis and it took us few days of work since we had to strip out whole console to get to it.
Avensis, "sister" car to tC has received best in class security ratings in the UK in 2004, with its imobillizer system.
As to Corolla being most stolen car, actually due to the volume of both Camry and Corolla, they were at the top of the lists, until they started adjusting the ratings to take in consideration how many cars were sold. However, even in 2002, those Camry's and Corolla's were '92-'94 models, not new cars, since most cars these day are stolen for parts. It is very hard for a thief to steal new cars these days, which is why in europe we have more and more of car jacks...
Add a decent alarm system with interior protection and you can sleep tight during the night.
All Toyota's have had immobilizers for past 4-5 years standard, at least european ones, including small Yaris (echo). In any case, your tC has it now. It is not something you see, it works in the background.
What it does is matches the code from the key with the code in the ecu and if they match, it will start the car. Newer cars have separate ECU for engine imobilizzer.
Only way to steal these cars, away from towing them away, is to replace both ecu and lock/key, so two can match each other. Early models had an issue with ECU being close to the ignition (A4 had this problem), so it was relativly easy to replace both at the same time. Newer cars have complicated ECU location which makes them really hard to remove, in most cases impossible unless you have 3-4 people working on it for 4-5 hours. We had to replace one on Avensis and it took us few days of work since we had to strip out whole console to get to it.
Avensis, "sister" car to tC has received best in class security ratings in the UK in 2004, with its imobillizer system.
As to Corolla being most stolen car, actually due to the volume of both Camry and Corolla, they were at the top of the lists, until they started adjusting the ratings to take in consideration how many cars were sold. However, even in 2002, those Camry's and Corolla's were '92-'94 models, not new cars, since most cars these day are stolen for parts. It is very hard for a thief to steal new cars these days, which is why in europe we have more and more of car jacks...
Add a decent alarm system with interior protection and you can sleep tight during the night.
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