When I looked at mine when I was fitting a remote boot popper I found quite a bit of corosion on the point where it actually earth's out when the latch closes.
That brownmthing is not a connector, but cable tie moulded together with clip holding it to boot metal arm. You can either break that cable tie if you have ankther of the same, or you cou.d try to put small flat screwdriver into this hole (from or the other side of the tie) in order to remove tie from teeth that holds it in place and thus release it.
If you want to replace one of them ,I have some and ill post one to you.
The boot switch should not put the light on when it is closed ( boot shut position ) . If it comes on itermmitently , that could be the cause as the system is sensing the boot being opened.
If you want to replace one of them ,I have some and ill post one to you.
Thanks John, that’s really kind of you.
The boot switch should not put the light on when it is closed ( boot shut position ) . If it comes on itermmitently , that could be the cause as the system is sensing the boot being opened.
I checked it really carefully – if you make the contact between the spring and the round thing, the light comes on; lift the spring off the round button (whatever it’s called), and the light goes out…
You will, most probably, have damaged wires in that loom where it is kinked by that brown clip.
They are not easy to spot as sometimes the copper core is broken but the plastic sheathing remains intact.
When I checked mine there were 4 broken wires in there!
Wires would need to be bare, without isolation in order to make contact to metal car body or another wire inside, which also needs to be bare in order to set alarm off. If wire is broken inside within insulation, and not bare, then you will not have closure of circuit for alarm going off.