Garage door buttons
10-09-2012, 10:29 AM
#2
Suzuka Master
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I had to try it a couple of times because of the whole rolling codes thing.
I used the how to on this link to help: http://www.homelink.com/home/welcome
I used the how to on this link to help: http://www.homelink.com/home/welcome
10-09-2012, 02:31 PM
#3
Keep Right Except to Pass
Apologies if this sounds obvious to the point where it insults your intelligence, but I'll say it anyway: Did you make sure you pressed the "Learn" or "Train" button on the main box in your garage (the one that normally hangs from the ceiling)? Usually you have to lift up a cover or remove a piece to get at a place on the side of that unit, then press the "Learn" or "Train" button, then hurry to your car to program the button in the car within a certain very short amount of time. (Can you tell it's been a while since I did this?)
Anyway, the reason I point out this step is that I've known several people with cars that have these sorts of buttons who couldn't figure out how to program them because they thought they were to use their existing garage door remote to program the thing (similar to the way some universal TV remotes can be trained by pointing the stock remote at the universal remote and literally teaching it button by button). My father was one of those people—he has a 2004 TSX and he thought he couldn't use the Homelink feature because his remote didn't have a "Learn" or "Train" button.
Other than that, it's hard to say what might be the problem, but the most likely thing is too long a delay before pressing (and holding, I think) the button in the car. You have to be really fast about doing this stuff and it's a pain in the butt unless you have a two-car garage with the double-width door (because then you can pull the car to one side of the garage and just jump down from your stepstool and hit the button.....if you have a one-car garage like I do, you wind up putting the car outside in the driveway and running like a lunatic to try to hit it in time.....I wound up doing this multiple times before the programming took).
Anyway, the reason I point out this step is that I've known several people with cars that have these sorts of buttons who couldn't figure out how to program them because they thought they were to use their existing garage door remote to program the thing (similar to the way some universal TV remotes can be trained by pointing the stock remote at the universal remote and literally teaching it button by button). My father was one of those people—he has a 2004 TSX and he thought he couldn't use the Homelink feature because his remote didn't have a "Learn" or "Train" button.
Other than that, it's hard to say what might be the problem, but the most likely thing is too long a delay before pressing (and holding, I think) the button in the car. You have to be really fast about doing this stuff and it's a pain in the butt unless you have a two-car garage with the double-width door (because then you can pull the car to one side of the garage and just jump down from your stepstool and hit the button.....if you have a one-car garage like I do, you wind up putting the car outside in the driveway and running like a lunatic to try to hit it in time.....I wound up doing this multiple times before the programming took).
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