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My garage door opener quit at 7pm on a Sunday and I got it wrong twice
Last Sunday around 7pm my garage door opener just stopped halfway down, and I stood there in the driveway with a bag of groceries going bad. I climbed up on a step stool and messed with the safety sensor on the left side for maybe 25 minutes before I noticed a dead spider web wrapped around the lens. The real fix was 4 seconds of wiping it with my shirt, but I spent an hour googling motor replacements first. What's the dumbest thing that broke on you this month, and how long did it take before you spotted the actual problem?
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dakota_fox10d ago
The truth is I'd bet we get it wrong way more than we admit, so the "dumbest thing" isn't as rare as it sounds. I've done the exact same thing, stood there with a dead spider web on a sensor and ordered a $60 logic board in my head before touching the actual lens. A real fix for a garage door is usually the boring stuff, like wiping a lens or tightening a track bolt that rattled loose. My own opener just quit last month and the whole problem was a loose wire nut on the wall button, but before that I had a new motor picked out online. Most of these breakdowns are stuff that needs a rag or a screwdriver, not a truck full of parts.
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