Hello all

My 02 passat estate alarm and kept going off for no apparent reason. I checked all the normal things that you would and couldn’t find any reason for it to keep going off. Whilst driving along the warning for the luggage compartment flashed up on the dashboard saying luggage compartment open. So I immediately stopped opened and closed boot and carried on driving a few miles later, it flashed up again this time I checked the boot and it was closed, right, I thought maybe this is what's triggering the alarm, a faulty boot switch. I started to strip down the lock mechanism when I noticed a few drops of water came out from the lock, I inspected the lock it had been getting water in it I have no idea how. So I cleaned and dried the electrical terminal off the sensor greased up with some copper grease hand slipped the connector back in place. The alarm has been fine since, with no more warnings, or alarms I just thought I'd post this, it might help someone if they are having alarmed problems, it’s something else to check.

Regards
Matt