Have To Hold Garage Door Button Down To Close

This causes real hassle as i can t use my remote opener to open the door as well.

Have to hold garage door button down to close.

So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning. After i hold the button down to close it the sensor lights come back on. My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down. Hold down on the buttons until the in car red light flashes rapidly.

But seems to be unable to close all the way. I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly. When it is fully open or close left sensor solid red right sensor solid green. This sets the in car transmitter to be your garage door openers make transmitter but you are not done.

When the door is up the sensor lights are off. Garage door won t close using the remote but closes. You have something blocking the sensor. It could be something small.

Hold your transmitter up near the selected button pressing both the garage door remote and the selected in car transmitter button simultaneously. Why do i have to hold down the button to close the garage door. Here is what happening. Woman uses makeup mirror to help fix garage door.

I can immediately think of 3 possibilities. My genie garage door closes fine on all occasions but it won t open unless i hold the wall button down. 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. Eye on both side of the door is not on i have to hold down the bottom in the garage to bring the door down.

Garage door won t close using the remote but closes if you hold down the button on the wall.