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

[Bitter]

Very cool, I dig it. If you only need a single button for the garage door opener (single door) then you can get custom switches from a variety of sellers with any logo you want.

[jcbass7]

Very cool, I dig it. If you only need a single button for the garage door opener (single door) then you can get custom switches from a variety of sellers with any logo you want.

I have seen a lot of those on eBay, but they all appeared to be for later model Toyota’s since the “blank” hole is a different shape/size. Do you know if they make some that fit the 6th gen blanks?