Stock Garage Door Opener Install - Tutorial, Using power seat memory switch from older Lexus/Toyota Options

[jcbass7]

I wanted a more stock looking garage door opener for my new 94' Celica GT4, I didn't want to have a remote clipped to my sun visor forever. I discovered online you can wire a normal battery powered garage door opener into a momentary switch and mount that in the car. I went to the local junk yard and searched the mid 90's early 00's Lexus and Toyota and found a switch that would work in the stock "blank" locations under the dash near the steering wheel. (Pic below)

I recommend you bring the blank with you so you can compare while searching. I think it was from a Lexus, but I don't recall the exact vehicle or year range (looks like RX300 99-03 is my best guess). It is a powered seat memory button with three momentary switches, perfect for what I needed.

I then opened the garage opener and figured out which parts of the circuit board I needed to solder the wires to and which wires did what on the 3 button switch I grabbed. This switch was simple, the white/black wire was the ground, then each of the other three wires went to one of the three buttons on the front.

It was as simple as soldering the white/black to the common ground on the circuit board and then one of each of the other three wires to each pole of the three buttons of the GENIE remote I was using. I like that this switch has 3 buttons so I can use up to 3 garage door/gates in the future.

I have a spare I grabbed at the junk yard and plan to try to repaint the button's on the front. I chose to mount in the blank location next to the fuse panel so that I could get to the battery of the garage remote if needed to change the battery. The GENIE remote is 12v, so I believe I could wire it into the car easily enough, but the battery works for me for now.

Final result:




















This post has been edited by jcbass7: Mar 9, 2020 - 8:39 PM

[richee3]

Very clever install! I like it!

[jcbass7]

Very clever install! I like it!

Thanks man! Definitely fun to be tinkering on a celica again! Took longer at the junk yard than to solder the 4 wires. Super easy project.

I found one of the switches on Ebay if anyone is interested in the same idea, but doesn't have the pig tail of wires. Was fairly easy to find at the junk yard.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1999-2003-Lexus-RX...ZwAAOSwRxpcuIb4

EDIT: here is one with the wires

https://www.ebay.com/itm/99-03-LEXUS-RX300-...5.c100005.m1851

This post has been edited by jcbass7: Mar 8, 2020 - 10:16 PM