Honda Insight garage door opener
Finished a project Sunday that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I put a garage door opener in my car.
Behold mere mortal, for this is no normal garage opener. Nay….this garage door opener is built into the car, will never need a battery again, better range AND just damn plain looks cool.
Here you can see the circuit board connections. Used some old telephone wire to run the switch and LED leads, and some 18 gauge speaker wire for power.
Here’s the casing put back on. I didn’t put any holes, so if I wanna I can put it back to being a regular opener.
My messy work bench 
The messier the better!
I marked out the cuts in pencil, here’s the first rough cut. Just used a Dremel and a really sharp razor blade…
Here we are about 1 hour later. Took forever to get it right, but I had to be careful. Don’t exactly have extra pieces lying around ya know.
Here’s the space in the dash where it’s going
This is the +12v lead I tapped into to power it.
Voila!
Interesting note, even though the garage door unit is now in the middle of the dash (behind the button) it still works better than it did when clipped on the visor. Even behind all the metal of the car. I think it’s simply because of the additional power. 12v @ 120amps beats a battery any day.
Of course I added this to my Honda Insight page as well. Also, the next project coming up here is adding a subwoofer
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That is really awesome. Will you wire up the Saturn when I get garage?
Ah, memories just out of high-school and you putting in the blinking red light to appear like an anti-theft device. Can you install one on my bicycle? Oh wait, I don’t have a garage…