Does anyone know how to completely disable a car alarm on a 99 VW Jetta?My car alarm no longer recognizes when I open the back door after dis-arming the alarm. After a minute, it re-locks itself. I already accidentally locked my two year old in the car during the winter and had to call 911. I‘m terrified of it happening again with my two-month old in the middle of summer.Anyone know how to completely disable the alarm so I cant even use it? I dont mind not having an alarm, I‘m just terrified of it automatically locking my kids in the car. again.
Since the alarm system was an expensive option that not all Jettas had, it is easy to disable it. (it was only standard in the US) It is not central to the ignition system. The dealer may be best at disabling it, but it is easily done. They will probably do it for free if you threaten a law suit. No one should ever have put in such a reckless system that can result in doors being locked automatically. Cars are not the kind of environment for delicate electronics like that, which are bound to fail in time. You should probably already sue for the emotional harm they have already caused. Anyone who would ever conceive of putting in such a silly system is an idiot. As if car owners are unable to simply lock doors manually themselves. Cars sit outside in the rain and freezing weather, they get bumped, bounced, and slammed. Nothing holds up to that eventually, and no one should ever add unnecessary electronics that are bound to cause far more harm than they could possibly do good. This sort of nonsense is what is wrong with most cars these days, and the fault lies with the foolish buyers who buy stupid features in the first place. Personally, I will never even own an automatic transmission.
The dealer cannot disable the alarm system; they can set it so that it will not automatically lock. The system is built into the ignition system, it would be best as one of the writers has said to repair it and be done with it. An independent with the VAG system analyzer/programme can also disable the automatic locking system so that it does not lock/unlock and return the system to require active locking and unlocking. but very few specialists have the VAG or equivient tool to do the job. Call around if you choose an NON VW dealership service to see if the have the machine to do the job. From the sounds of it, I don't think that repairing the system will be expensive, I suspect the sensor switch is defective and shouldn't be expensive to repair.
this happens when a door switch for the courtesy (interior) lights has broken if the switch breaks completely you cannot lock the door or set the alarm because the system thinks a door is still open if the switch jams off the system does not sense the door opening and will keep relocking the doors if another door is not opened as well and resetting the alarm easy 5 minute and $10 fix also check the hood and trunk switches, the switches are in little rubber boots at the bottom of the door frame and often get kicked but you can't see if they are broken until you take the boot off
