Have To Hold Garage Door Button Down To Close

Hold your transmitter up near the selected button pressing both the garage door remote and the selected in car transmitter button simultaneously.

Have to hold garage door button down to close.

Garage door won t close using the remote but closes. You have something blocking the sensor. But seems to be unable to close all the way. So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning.

When the door is up the sensor lights are off. Why do i have to hold down the button to close the garage door. If i let go of the bottom the door stops. Tuesday june 26 2018 you are overriding the infrared beam sensor when you hold down the wall button continuously while the garage door is closing.

Hold down on the buttons until the in car red light flashes rapidly. When it is fully open or close left sensor solid red right sensor solid green. My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down. I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly.

There are a pair of little plastic things at the bottom of the rail pointing at each other usually between 6 and 12 off the floor. My genie garage door closes fine on all occasions but it won t open unless i hold the wall button down. Here is what happening. Garage door won t close using the remote but closes if you hold down the button on the wall.

I can immediately think of 3 possibilities. The problem starts when you hit the button to close it and the door starts to close. It could be something small. This causes real hassle as i can t use my remote opener to open the door as well.

Woman uses makeup mirror to help fix garage door.