Automatic Garage Door Safety

[TLLMRRJ]

Tesla has a $300 automatic garage door?

Yep. And they have a $500 automatic house.

 

[bcs92]

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Consider yourself luck, I already slammed the trunk and the trunk of my x into the door. Two giant battle scares on my car from the hinge

I have two nice scratches on my X3 hatch, one happened two weeks after I got it. Hatch opened on its own overnight and I didn't see it when I opened the garage the next morning. grrr. Otherwise I've used the hanging tennis ball method and have pool noodles cut in half and affixed to wall to prevent door hitting side wall.

 

[mattack4000]

Pretty much the same

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I have two nice scratches on my X3 hatch, one happened two weeks after I got it. Hatch opened on its own overnight and I didn't see it when I opened the garage the next morning. grrr. Otherwise I've used the hanging tennis ball method and have pool noodles cut in half and affixed to wall to prevent door hitting side wall.

 

[BluestarE3]

Tesla has a $300 automatic garage door?

While the quality of materials and workmanship of their garage door is nice and all, I wouldn't buy it for the same reason I wouldn't buy their similarly priced car covers: I don't like the huge "TESLA" logo emblazoned on it. I don't want to attract vandals or thieves to target my house because they hate Tesla or think I'm wealthy.

 

[Atari2600]

Be very careful doing that this is from DAMSA an industry group:
To reduce the risk of severe injury or death, it is essential that photoelectric sensors be installed properly according to manufacturer's instructions.
Installation Height and Horizontal Location
The top of each photoelectric eye lens is to be installed no higher than six (6) inches above the garage floor. If installation is above six (6) inches, the photoelectric eyes may not detect what they are intended to protect, an individual lying down on the garage floor under the descending door.

How do you install two sets of sensors? One for under 6 inches and one at car height and stop on either triggering?

 

[Akikiki]

...It's one reason why Tesla's $300 automatic garage door is an accident waiting to happen.

Yeah, what is a Tesla $300 automatic garage door?

 

[Mr. Big]

Yeah, what is a Tesla $300 automatic garage door?

Tesla has a $300 automatic garage door?

One only needs to read the context of the thread to know the person was talking about the $300 opener, and not a door.

 

[mspohr]

One only needs to read the context of the thread to know the person was talking about the $300 opener, and not a door.

There you go spoiling our fun

 

[Akikiki]

Yeah, it's crazy that the garage door manufacturers only think we want to protect dead people and really stupid cats from getting squished by the door and that we really want to have our cars scratched and dented by the same door.

It's one reason why Tesla's $300 automatic garage door is an accident waiting to happen.

Tesla uses the standard Homelink transmitter like most other Homelink enabled cars do.
What does a standard Homelink transmitter have to do with the door coming down on a car? Homelink like a standard generic remote simply sends the signal to the garage door opener. Home link 4.0 and most remotes don't know if the door is open or closed, they simply send a signal. The receiver on the door responds opening or closing.

If you don't like it, then simply don't use it or an electric garage door opener.

 

[CharleyBC]

We have tight front-to-back positioning. We use the low-tech tennis ball on a string technique, which is especially cool if you use an official Tesla tennis ball.

 

[WilliamG]

You guys must have some small garages if a 3 just barely fits

Yep. I have around 5” clearance.

 

[WilliamG]

We have tight front-to-back positioning. We use the low-tech tennis ball on a string technique, which is especially cool if you use an official Tesla tennis ball.
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I highly recommend this. I’ve never seen or used anything better.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079VX8RJ8?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_dt_b_product_details

 

[Rottenapplr]

Yeah, it's crazy that the garage door manufacturers only think we want to protect dead people and really stupid cats from getting squished by the door and that we really want to have our cars scratched and dented by the same door.

It's one reason why Tesla's $300 automatic garage door is an accident waiting to happen.

My tm3 has the home link installed but I don’t have automatic open and close.

 

[WilliamG]

My tm3 has the home link installed but I don’t have automatic open and close.

Auto open is fantastic. I’ll never use auto close for safety/accident reasons.

 

[Rottenapplr]

Auto open is fantastic. I’ll never use auto close for safety/accident reasons.

Sometimes my big dog is in the garage so I don’t want to just open the door automatically. Lest she runs out side.

 

[pwykes]

I have two of these installed on my garage floor. I slowly move the car forward until the wheels touch them. Works perfectly.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EDUUIA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[buddhra]

After I was a victim of the garage door, I added more sensors.