Something that makes my life easier is the warning ‘alarm’ which sounds when the tailgate is being opened by the driver from within the car. As I’m blind it means that if my wife is picking me up from somewhere she can pop the tailgate when she sees me approaching, I know where the car is and the boot is open ready for the guidedog to hop in to. Any car that lets you open the boot from within the car has to have the alarm so that a passing pedestrian doesn’t get taken out as they cross behind your car but not all models have the option of being able to open the boot remotely and dealers don’t seem to even know it’s a thing let alone which specs have it. Our Touran did whihc is how we discovered it so when we replaced it that was 1 of the things on the wish list. We ended up with a Tiguan and the VW configurator would have you believe that you have to add remote tailgate opening as an extra on top of power closing . After a bit of VW forum reading i took a punt on VW not bothering to programme 1 without the other and paid for opening only. It was a good call, we can open the boot from the key fob and the dash and are £350 better off than if I were more trusting.