Why do people not do proper garage door installations? You're supposed to have a sensor that prevents the door from closing if something is blocking the door.No Homelink for me, I don't trust the automation with the potential for accidental damage.
Got Bit By Homelink On My New Car...
I picked up the car Monday and by Tuesday evening, I already damaged by car thanks to the Homelink auto-close. I had read about this happening, but it still didn't prevent me from enabling both auto-open and auto-close, since it sounded so cool. Not so cool and now I am sick to my stomach...teslamotorsclub.com
HomeLink
I had a major problem with my HomeLink. System it was working fine. Opening and closing. Then the disaster hit, while I was pulling out the door tried to close with my car under it. Tried means it did a hell of alot of damage. Anyone else had this problem?
Pushing Skip Homelink and backing out of garage - $1,400 dent
Yesterday, while backing out of my garage I hit the skip Homelink icon (I didn't want the garage door to automatically close) and started backing out. Even though the display showed the garage door was fully open, it had started closing but stopped halfway when I hit the skip Homelink icon. Due...
I used a command strip to attach the remote to the inside of my drivers door pocket.
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Quick Homelink question
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I had homelink installed after I picked up my M3P in March. I absolutely love the auto open/close. Has been working flawlessly for the 3 months of me owning the car. For me personally, $300 was worth it.
It's not 100% foolproof. You can have the beam under the bumper and have the door close on the trunk.
The door is also supposed to reverse and the force needed to cause the reversing is often set too strongly as well. Even properly set you will still scratch and possibly ding the car.
But it would seem that a properly operating door would greatly minimize damage.
Best I can tell in one of the posts is the original poster backed into a half open door. A properly set up garage door wouldn't have changed that. In this case it was user error. We've all had brain fade and made mistakes, so no snarky comments from me.
Yeah garage door safety systems aren't designed to prevent damage to vehicles, they're designed to prevent deaths. I had a rear bumper scratched pretty good years ago when my car (manual) had rolled back slightly after parking and the bumper was resting against the garage door. When I opened the door it gouged the bumper.
The homelink feature is definitely worth it (to me) even without the automation. Not having to deal with ugly remotes and/or the hassle of taking them out of hiding to use them each time + for some reason my garage door remotes always have buttons go bad. I was going to spend the $300 just to avoid having a remote in my car, but then I was pleasantly surprised to find that my CPO Model 3 came with homelink already installed.
The homelink feature is definitely worth it (to me) even without the automation. Not having to deal with ugly remotes and/or the hassle of taking them out of hiding to use them each time + for some reason my garage door remotes always have buttons go bad. I was going to spend the $300 just to avoid having a remote in my car, but then I was pleasantly surprised to find that my CPO Model 3 came with homelink already installed.
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