Help Please - How To Lock Passat Without Setting Alarm

[Lurker777]

We have a 2013 Passat estate. Last night the alarm kept activating, and after a bit of investigating we noticed the 'boot open' indicator on the display panel. The boot wasn't actually open, so we suspect a faulty sensor.

As it was the middle of the night, and the alarm kept being triggered at random intervals, we decided to lock the car without setting the alarm. You'd think this would be easy, but there is no obvious way to achieve this simple requirement. We therefore were forced to leave the car unlocked overnight.

There's a couple of different ways to lock the car with the internal/motion sensor being deactivated - but this still leaves the 'door open' sensors activated.

I've spoken to VW this morning, and they've informed me it is not possible to lock the car and fully deactivate the alarm. Surely this can't be true.

Any suggestions?

Cheers, Andy

[Lurker777]

Nope....tried that. It deactivates the motion/internal sensor, but not the 'door open' sensor.

[Lurker777]

Thanks. The thing is that initially, everything appears ok...the car image on the computer display indicates all doors are closed, all the doors actually lock, and the hazards flash as expected. Later on (anything from a few minutes to a couple of hours), the alarm sounds and the computer display indicates the boot is open.

This suggests to me there's either a problem with the boot sensor (reporting the boot is open when it isn't) or with the boot catch (opening itself). Unfortunately, I'm unable to get this investigated until tomorrow. In the meantime, I have a period of 24 hours during which I can't lock the car.