I noticed recently that the garage door opener works regardless if the key is in the ignition or if the car is locked, with the alarm 'on'. If anyone parks their car outside their home and the car's door opener is programmed for your garage, someone could gain entry into your garage by breaking into the car and activating the garage door. From there, they could enter your house!

Just something to keep in mind...

 

No different then if you had the opener that came with the door.

 

The garage door opener that's in my Audi A6 does not work without the key in the ignition. I think that's a better setup.

In regards to the portable door opener, I never leave that in the 4Runner. I always take it inside with me.

 

sneaking in while you sleeping ? the garage door does make it a bit of sound, no ?

 

My bedroom is in front of the house... my parents bought some palm trees and had them parked right under my window (second floor) to be planted the next day. Next morning, it was all gone (heavy stuff in wooden buckets, like 10' palm trees). I slept right through the robbery.

I've also slept through earthquakes.... like the '94 Point Loma that brought down bridges in LA.

 

WTF ! people stealing plants ???

 

I wouldn't call this a safety alert... more like a paranoia alert.

 

Paranoia alert? My car spends the night inside. I don't have anything to worry about...

I guess you must live in a dangerous country before you consider such security flaw as bad to your safety.

 

Palm trees are expensive man! Like $200 a pop (large ones). Eight of them will fill your piggy!

 

You could always not program the homelink?

I fail to see this as a safety issue.
So how is breaking into the TSX and opeing the garage door any different then just breaking into the house directly.

 

Here's something else to try while you are doing safety checks.

If you do have a garage door opener, go give a good tug on the bottom of the garage door. Chances are, you will be able to open it. No garage door opener that I have seen stops that from happening. The only thing that prevents it is the angle of the carrying rod that attaches the opener to the door. The steeper the angle, the harder it will be to pull open.

If you're going away for an extended period of time, you should unplug the opener and utilize the track lock.

 

I have all screw drive openers. Good luck, I've also reinforced the brackets, by nature of it's a design a worm gear can only turn in the screw shaft side not the gear/rack end.

 

Still some good information to put out....I'm sure a good majority of us knew about it, but still good information. You have to admit there are some stupid people out there that live in bad neighborhoods and leave their car unlocked.

 

That's a good point. I have actually tried opening the garage door before by pulling on it. The neighborhood lost power, and I rarely carry the key to my house with me. The door would not open; and I was locked out until the power came back.

Fortunately, businesses in my neighborhood are on a different grid, so I went to the local bookstore or movies.

 

Let us not forget the intended use of the Home Link system. As all of you know, it works like your garage door opener ( and programs other things such as electric gates). Most of us will use it to open a garage door so that you don't have to go outside and do it manually. Therefore, it should not be a safety issue because the intention is to park your car inside the garage>>>> right!!!!!!

So, if you don't do this and park your car outside of the garage all the time, then it would be best to not program the system to your garage door opener.

 

I was kind of wondering why people are homelinking the car and not putting it in the garage? I don't want to come off sounding mean or up tight, but if your neighberhood is really bad...why are you buying an Acura and parking it outside...not that I should tell anyone where to live or how to park?

 

Alot of people stock their garage with usless shit they cant seem to bring themselves to throw out. Meanwhile, their brand new $30K car sits outside on the street or in the driveway. Makes sense dosent it...

My garage is for my cars first, then anything that can fit on the perimeter.

 

My brother and I fight for the extra spot in the garage. It's whomever gets home first. So sometimes my TSX is left outside in the cold while his GTI sleeps in with my dog.

The other spot has my mom's A6. And the third spot is filled with boxes (there's no room for a sedan in there, anyways).

 

I think there is reason why there is a door between your garage and your house. You should probably think about locking it at night.

That being said, if a theif sees something valuable to steal in your house and he wants it, he'll break any window, car, leg or arm to get it.

I vote for reclassification to the paranoia award...er, i mean alert.

 

It is locked -- by two keys!!

This is not a democracy.

 

Two keys? I reinact the paranoia alert.

 

There are two locks, but only one key actually; and one of the locks is one of those sliding locks types; it doesn't require a key.

We didn't install them. The previous owner did.