hello, i have recently purchased a escort with a immoboliserr which is non standard ford i believe. the trouble is all the labels are worn off and i cant identify it, because i need to order a new chip key and cant, so was hoping somone may be able to shed some light on it.

It is a small chip with 8 pins on the board and is housed on a rectangular plastic case with a sloping bottom end for the keyring hole. It has half of a silver sticker on it with writing saying immoboliser, and has a pictue of what looks like a car in a target sight like a skope of a gun! Any ideas anyone. It plugs into a socket in the dash.

 

the company that made then went bust years ago mate

 

with all due respect that immobiliser is the biggest piece of shit ever made, you'd do extremely well to rip it out and fit a category 2 immobiliser, or even better a category 1 alarm

 

As said biggest load of garbage going, bought a car a couple of years ago with one, when I picked the car up(astra mk3) I lost the bloody key at the service station in the snow somewhere, mate was with me so had a few tools, took all of 2 minutes to bypass as so simple.
Take it out would be my advice as well, and get a nice CAT 1 .
alarm/immoby .
tabetha
ps if you pull the CARD part out of the holder you will see the connection details so can just copy them for a quick job.

 

seems im in the s**t then! do you know the name of the manufacturer anyway so i can do some research on it?

 

most fitters fitted them to one cut off witch caused the plastic key to heat up and melt, as for getting the name of it, might be worth getting the control box out from under the dash

 

as far as im aware they dont have a control box..........it just does some simple loops in the cars wiring, when you pull the key out they go open circuit

 

ye you could be right there, was long time ago.
best of luck sorting it

 

As safechav says no control box at all, it's a FOUR circuit immobliser but wires and particularly the COPPER tracks inside the "KEY" are so thin it will not carry much current at all, so most had the circuit doubled up to act as a two circuit immobiliser, a two year old can get round this one, not even worth taking out the box IMO.
The immoby bit is the connection details on the card that you just pull out of it's holder to replicate.
tabetha

 

not seen one of them in a while!!