BobbyT

I did a search on "garage door opener", but no joy on what I am trying to find.

The garage door opener buttons on my 2000 RX300 sun visor are wired hot, so they are operable even when the car is switched off. My garage is taken by two other cars, so I must park the Lexus outside. Therefore, someone could break a window and use the Lexus garage door opener button to gain access to the garage.

I would like to change the sun visor door opener buttons to switched power. Has anyone done this? Any tips?

Page BE-215 shows the connecter for the opener buttons wiring harness. Does anyone know where this connector is located?

Is switched power for these buttons something that can be reprogrammed?

RXdriver11

Really all you need is a switch (on/off) between the hot wire. Never done it, but then again its parked inside so I never thought about it either..

salimshah

Look at the bigger picture:

What prevents a would-be thief from braking a window of the house to get it? May that is not possible in your case, but I wanted to point it out ... just in case you have not looked at the bigger picture.

Another alternative is to have switchable 110 supply to the opener. This prevents door pad, scanners/lightening etc to operate it. You can have a licensed electrician do it or run an extention cord.

In RX, if you remove the visor support, you can pull the plug out. But you still will have to run a switched line to the plug. Most likely the wire comes to the fuse box and you can swap it there.

I think it is hardwired and you can not program it.

Salim

99rx

iTrader: (6)

Most garage doors have a button on the pad on the inside to "lock" the garage. Does yours?

salimshah

also referred to as vacation. The only problem with that one is that if you kill power and bring it back on the 'vacation' mode goes off. Maybe the newer openers are smarter.

Salim

99rx

iTrader: (6)

Well hopefully he doesn't lose power often enough for that to be a problem.

carguy07

I think something similar to this would work: http://www.mdxers.org/forums/2-gener...elink-acc.html

bob2200

I don't think cutting power to the RX300's garage door's opener is a high-security solution. Anybody could just touch a 9-volt battery to the car opener to get it to work.

From a security point of view, if you have that much valuable in the garage you should use a hand-held garage door remote control and keep it in your pocket, not leave it in the car.

I've read about vulnerabilities of many electric garage doors to probes through the top. I don't recall the details, but most of them are not meant to be that secure.

salimshah

A friend of mine has said it so well ,,,

All the security measures are really to keep the good people out. The crooks always find a way to get around the obstacles.

One has to step back and not allow your thinking to take you down one path. That is why I pointed out that it is easier to break a window of the home instead of breaking the glass of a vehicle to get to garage door opener to gain access.

Salim

AlexusAnja

Thieves like water go the path of least resistence. Unless your garaged cars are a ferrari or a bentley, they are not going to be the object of their theft. They will enter through your back porch, open window in house, basement window perhaps. They will not break into your car first and risk tripping an alarm, just to hopefully get to remote that works, to enter the house. One real danger however is GPS. Any store "home" as the actual house location, which if a thief breaks into your car and drives there, you've given them a free ride to know that you're probably not home since they have your car, and the garage opener in car will open the door. save "home" as a location one or two blocks away.

kab

People answering this gentleman's question have obviously not had the pleasure of car prowlers. We have had the pleasure in our community quite a few times and what has been observed is that the thieves break into the vehicle, steal anything of value and then if there is a garage door opener or the vehicles garage door opener is not powered off, they open the garage door and steal everything they can. Gone in 10 minutes. If there was no garage door opener or the built in opener was powered off, they moved on to the next home after ransacking the vehicle. They pick the low hanging fruit. They don't carry 9 volt batteries with them. These are crimes of opportunity. Lexus should shut the power off to the garage door opener, it just makes it easy for prowlers.

SVRX300

Out of my three Japanese and one Mercedes cars, only Mercedes requires key to be turned to ON to operate the garage door opener. It is a little "inconvenient" when I first got the car but it took very little getting used to. I feel safer that way when I have to park it on driveway.

trhs75

When I first got my Audi, I was annoyed that the opener wouldn't work with the ignition off as it does in our older RX300's, then I realized it's a pretty good security feature as BobbyT points out!