Boxster garage door opener hack

Speaker Upgrade. Let me know if you know of any more valuable web pages that fit this category. Search this site. Hacks Hacks are minor modification that the owner could do himself or herself to change the look of the way something functions. Report abuse. Page details. Page updated. Google Sites. This site uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic. Information about your use of this site is shared with Google. Radio Shack. About 4m of 16 Ga wire, 2m brown gnd and 2m red or yellow pretty is important Radio Shack.

The lamps snaps in to this perimeter with a simple clip. Congrats - you have just made a template. Hey, it even has a cutout for this light hmmm. Be careful, there's expensive stuff above this panel. Score the material in a rectangle, a metal ruler makes this much easier, btw.

Now cut out carefully. It's easy to slip. Your choice of placement on the driver side. I think that cutting it in to the carpet on the L side footwell is best for me.

Or the Fuse plastic cover panel? Not sure. So make sure, absolutely sure, that there is sufficient air space behind them, that they are not in contact with anything flammable etc. Plus they are about 1. Each doober has two simple push on terminals.

Go to radio shack blech and get some crimp on ga connectors. Run adequate wire 16 ga sounds good, these critters only draw about mA when on, so thick stuff is not too important here. Run one wire from the lamp to ground any solid brown wire connection point, look under the instrument column, there are 2 big nuts with several brown wires on them.

If you remove the ground side of something nasty with power on the other side and it 'floats' the component - bzzzt! You've been warned. This courtesy of the best mechanic I know, who looked over this doc it cost me a nice dinner at Calif Pizza Kitchen. The alarm is what controls the lights via sensors, switches etc.

Here's a ten minute hack. Get from CFG the lighted visors leather if you wish. To install:. Open roof about 5cm, then remove key from ignition.

Disconnect negative side of battery. The are very fragile so be careful. The clips are along the long edges inside of the ellipse. Use a small screwdriver carefully. Gently swing it down.

Be careful - the connector for the alarm IR sensor may be easily bent it's the small flat black connector on the L rear of this assy. Be gentle. Note the 3 wires going to the interior dome light.

Look closely at the brown connector, you want the middle wire red and the end wire plain brown. Do not use the brown with red stripe. Unscrew the sunvisor by taking out the 2 machine threaded black 24 Torx screws that hold the side of the visor to the top of the frame, these are at the outer most side of the visor, the visor frame forms part of the latch for the roof. Now look at the inner closer to center end of the visor.

With a small screw drive, lift up the center 'hatch' of the black plastic mounting square holding it to the windshield frame. Look inside the mounting square. There is a small Torx screw that should now be unscrewed. Pull the visor assembly down, toward the floor, it should slide right out. Pull DOWN towards the floor. Look at the new visor, at the inner side mounting clip. Note the red and black wires going to the small contacts on the inside of this clip. Solder a 22Ga wire to each clip, have the wire parallel to the contacts, coming down from the clip.

Make these wires about 2 ft long. Twist together before you solder for tidy installation. Align this and then push the visor up in to place. Now's the time to screw the visor in to place. If you do not have it beneath the mount plate and smooth the roof might leak. Ok, now you have 2 sets of wires left and right - right? Solder or crimp them together, take a wire from each lead and connect one wire to the brown, one to the Red of the the overhead light connector. The way I did it was to strip 2mm of insulation off the wires, then place them physically in the connector for the ovhd light parallel to the pins in the connector there IS enough room , Then I carefully soldered them to the existing pins with med heat, but quickly so I didn't melt the plastic.

Put the overhead light back in, re-insert the 2 screws. Reinsert the IR sensor windows. Reconnect battery. Recycle power windows to reset their auto up features , reset clock and stereo tone settings.

Close roof. In Europe the car can be ordered prewired for a hand held cell phone M Handy Phone. This fits in to the "E Box" or accessory box between the seats. I have not yet hacked it, but the wiring diagrams show that it's cake to install, plus it gives you mute of the radio when the phone is off hook. This is the next project.

There's a wire loom which comes off the bottom of the E Box which goes to power, illumination, mute, hand's free mic. CFG - can you get the part number of the E Box? I'll let ya'all know when I have the Nokia cranked in. So - I get the parts from a mechanic friend, I'll send you a complete list of part 's if you send me email, there are a lot and I thought it would clutter up this message. It looks possible to do ASR too, but also a huge number of parts.

Oh yeah, the best cellular antennas Hirschmann are available from Tessco ww. It's 2" high, in fact it's what is on the Boxster in the picture on the cover of the Boxster sales brochure. It mounts drilling reqd on the windshield frame near the top release handle. IT must be tilted back 25deg or you get wind whistle. Have fun and don't let the morons at the car stereo place drill, YOU do it.

It sticks behind the front or rear bumper, I used it on another car, decent performance. Canyon Cell has tons of connectors to just about any cellphone too. Cook that passenger's cranium! Now look on the wiring diagram, bet your phone has a MUTE line to quiet the radio when the phone is in use. The Becker radio in the Boxster supports this. This is the mute line, tie in to your cell mute line at installation.

The openers for the garage containing toys are on a separate circuit that I can switch off when they are not in use. That prevents the kind of crap that you experienced from happening.

I also typically keep those doors padlocked closed and for those of you that have not already done this, I suggest you take a look at disabling the emergency release on the door opener track, as thieves have figured out a way to easily break in to a garage door by disengaging that release.

Paul T. Originally Posted by javadog. All sorts of info on how this can be done. Most of what I found are a few years old though. Absolutely related. We had a rash of it in our community a while back.

Part of my evening bed time routine is making sure remote control function of the opener is disabled. Often if I come home and know I won't be going back out I'll disable it earlier in the day. Google the zip tie emergency release hack. It's a very simple way to prevent the emergency release from being operated from the outside but does not impede operation from inside.

It's not paranoia when they really are out to get you. Definitely worth a call to the cops. It will remain as long as I post here. Steve Carlton. All times are GMT The time now is AM.

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