DIY Homelink $6

[jeff]

Thought I'd share this....I picked up a Homelink unit from Pull-a-Part the other day for $6 and fabricated it into my driver's sun visor. With the visor up it looks perfectly OEM. With the visor down the vinyl covering my holes is apparent. Soon on my next day off I plan to hire an upholstery shop to recover the visor completely and match the OEM material and make it look perfect, which will cost me $20 or so. But for now I'm happy and it works.

In order to do this quick and easy I simply ran a 9V for power rather than taking the headliner apart and splicing in somewhere. I know this is apostasy to some of you but again for $6 and assuming you have a battery laying around it's a nice easy and useful mod. I did this to another car a few years ago and a 9V is enough to power a Homelink for many years.

The only hangup was that there are some metal wire brackets inside the foam to give it support. I had to remove a few inches to make the HL unit fit, but it's unnoticeable.

Here are some pictures:

 

[rooSTer]

Subbed for final look.

 

[jeff]

I spent some time today cleaning up some of my dead Photobucket links, found a few pics here on this mod:

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It's been 20 months and I still haven't had the shade re-covered, probably since I never even notice it. Original 9V still holding strong and working well. Eventually I'll get this finished!

 

[HardBoiledEgg]

How did you figure out how to relarean your garage with some random homelink?

 

[jeff]

How did you figure out how to relarean your garage with some random homelink?

Any home link unit from anywhere can be wiped and re-taught in a few minutes. Just grab one from any car and follow these instructions:

http://www.homelink.com/program

 

[CanadianGuy]

Nice work. Looks almost stock. Mine is built into my auto gentex dimming mirror. But this is a very good way to.

 

[uwrasta]

It’s really not that hard to run power from the fuse box So you aren’t trying to find a wire in the actual headliner. I really like the sun visor idea but if done right in the headliner no one would ever think twice as to whether it was stock or not.

You can definitely pick up the homelink off eBay for 20 bucks.

So two 4 foot runs of wire, an add a fuse tap from Walmart for 6 bucks and a couple hours taking your time and you have a great mod.

Anyway. I like your way and my way. I would rather have the car power it as to never have to worry about it.


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[jeff]

It’s really not that hard to run power from the fuse box So you aren’t trying to find a wire in the actual headliner. I really like the sun visor idea but if done right in the headliner no one would ever think twice as to whether it was stock or not.

You can definitely pick up the homelink off eBay for 20 bucks.

So two 4 foot runs of wire, an add a fuse tap from Walmart for 6 bucks and a couple hours taking your time and you have a great mod.

Anyway. I like your way and my way. I would rather have the car power it as to never have to worry about it.


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Yeah thanks man. Your way is definitely better, I was going cheap/quick just for fun with the intention to do it right one day but that was years ago and I never got around to it and kind of forgot about it. It's holding up well and working fine maybe I'll get to it one day. Crazy I spent the time and money to swap turbos and I have a 9V powering my homelink.....

 

[uwrasta]

Yeah thanks man. Your way is definitely better, I was going cheap/quick just for fun with the intention to do it right one day but that was years ago and I never got around to it and kind of forgot about it. It's holding up well and working fine maybe I'll get to it one day. Crazy I spent the time and money to swap turbos and I have a 9V powering my homelink.....

I hear ya. Life gets in the way. I’m also thinking of doing a turbo upgrade. In the last three weeks I’ve done exhaust, intercooler, downpipe, Cobb, Mountune lowering springs. I’m working with stratified on the tune. But considering a bigger turbo.

I need to take a break from spending money though)


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