Huh? I back into my garage every day, and homelink works every day when I leave. But your explanation makes no sense to me anyway, because there are two other garage door events happening in between (close after I pull in, and open in the morning), so why should reverse matter?
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Traded in my 2018 LR RWD for AWD: Observations
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Huh? I back into my garage every day, and homelink works every day when I leave. But your explanation makes no sense to me anyway, because there are two other garage door events happening in between (close after I pull in, and open in the morning), so why should reverse matter?
MountainRatMat
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I think what Alt is trying to say is if you pull in to your garage forward, put the car into reverse to adjust the position in the garage, then "P", then homelink will not activate when you leave. I'll have to try this scenario out because I do notice sometimes it auto-skips closing in the software.
How do you have it configured, specifically when you initially 'shot' the front sensor with your old garage door opener, how close to the garage door were you and when you set the footage on the configure page? I don't think mine is broken. One thing I wonder is if the intent is that the homelink should close the garage door after you drive into your garage bay. In my case it doesn't as the trash bins are against the back wall on my side of the garage so there is just enough of a path width to walk into the house. If, say, the garbage bins were at the street I could drive forward enough that homelink would close the garage door after I entered. Similarly, I manually open the garage door when I enter the garage from the house as the wall switch is within arms reach upon entering the garage. In your case do you have enough space between the trunk and the garage door that homelink opens the garage for you? In other words it 100% controls the door.
Yes, I was describing the forward pull in scenario, not reversing into a garage. I still have the same thing happen on 32.2.2. I am at 100% auto close since I stopped using the camera for positioning. I tested it twice since my first post in this thread and at 0% auto close if I pull in forward, put it in reverse and move a couple inches, park, exit, let it lock itself then get in the car and reverse out of the garage.
Now that IS informative as I do generally do exactly that. I have a piece of painter's tape on the floor that should just appear in the backup camera to indicate I've pulled forward enough but not too much. As I said in another post, I do have obstacles in from of the car (garbage bins) and the door to the house is offset from the back of the garage by about 5'. If I pull too far forward I create an obstacle course for my wife often with groceries as she manuevers around riding mowers, my car's front etc getting to the steps. Further, that take helps in centering the car. It is much wider than the Prius it replaced and, as it is the collision sensors often goes off upon entering. The car does fit but it's a close fit. Also, I don't pull forward enough for homelink to close the door after me nor do I expect it to open the door as I back out. With the manual door to the house switch I open the door upon entry to the garage and close the door upon exit from the garage into the house.
Zcd1
Active Member
I'm not aware that the distance from the car to the door or opener matters when initially training the Homelink system in the car? Regardless, the car was probably about 10' from the door and 15-18' from the garage door motor/receiver when I set it up.
I have it set to activate the door at 20'. Works perfectly. No I don't expect it to close the door behind me when I pull in nor to open it when I'm ready to leave - that's what the wall switch is for!
Zcd1
Active Member
Get one of these and quit using the painter's tape - problem solved:
https://tinyurl.com/Parking-stop
NickDeRoo
Member
Do you feel the cornering is better in your AWD M3. I hate when my SR+ RWD brakes the front outside tire in a corner instead of letting my control the slide myself.
StealthP3D
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StealthP3D
Well-Known Member
Yes, we have both (both have 18" Aeros and the same MXM4 tires) and the LR RWD gets about 6-8% more range from the same charge.
Alto Nimbus
Member
Traded in because of the damage in the picture and the $16k repair bill.
It was better financially to trade in vs repair.
It was may 2018 build 22xxx VIN with only 15k miles.
Battery still was showing 325 miles.
The old one was on v10 vs this one stuck on some random sw version.
Got the red one again
I’m sorry your car was damaged.
it doesn’t look like $16 K worth of injury. Do you think repair cost are inflated because it’s a Tesla?
I love homelink on arrival and have homelink on departure turned off because I do prefer to press the button and watch in the rear view mirror if it closed all the way before driving away.
However your tires will likely wear out much faster in the RWD because you don't get the even wear on the AWD.
FMinMI
Member
It's simple - cost/royalty to Homelink. And they are not the only one. GM pulled it out of the 2nd Gen Volt and Bolt not to mention other models...
TomT
Technical Maven
Actually, not true since the front motor is only used under heavy acceleration or in low traction scenarios. Otherwise, it is just along for the ride. The only thing that the AWD has going for it is a little more front weight bias.
Just as another option for you, I went with this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F6DNMQ
I liked the two bump system, felt more reassuring to me.
@mswlogo ,@Msjulie ,@remlemasi ,@afadeev :
Just curious, it seems a lot of disagrees but no comments as to why. What is it that you guys disagree on? I was stating this so people can see the alternatives available rather than spending $300 for an option we see some people having issues with.
Many people these days have some form of home automation. And if you have any recent model garage door opener, there's a good chance it's got capability to open/close via your phone (and even potentially through Alexa). But even for garage door openers that don't, there are zwave components you can purchase that will allow you to do the same.
With my garage door opener, I can look at anytime to see the state of the door (open or closed), I can talk to alexa to open/close it, and I also have it programmed to close automatically if it's left open for 5 min.
DopeGhoti
Active Member
Would not a more even weight distribution generally lend itself toward more even tire wear?
