07-24-2009, 02:30 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Roanoke
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DIY: Integrated Garage Door Openers ('09 SI Sedan, no navi)
To rank the difficulty of this, I'm 16 and was easily able to do this.
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Items needed:
-Garage door opener
-VSA Switch (I got mine from 35300-SNA-003 - Genuine Honda SWITCH ASSY., VSA OFF)
-Solder gun
-Solder
-Paper towels
-Fine sand paper (I used 400)
-Flat black spray paint
-Newspaper
-Wire
-Saw for plastic
-Electric tape
-Painting tape
-Hot glue gun
First, sand the front end off the VSA button. I did this for 2.
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Saw the tips off to make it easier to get to the metal contacts. Just go down from the clip.


Tape and paint 'em.
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Wait a few hours for it to dry. I painted, then reapplied after an hour, then waited another 2 hours. Do whatever you want. Light coats work great.
Okay, this next part might be a little tricky if the circuit board for your garage door opener doesn't fit through the hole, so make sure it fits, if it doesn't, you're going to have to solder it with it through the hole. So take the guard and piece above that off. Twist the screw to unlock the guard and pull it out, then the piece above it pulls out too.

Pop the dead buttons out, and make sure the circuit board fits.
Find where the button is on the circuit board is and look where the corresponding spots where it is soldered are. It should be pretty straightforward which ones the wires need to be connected to. Take the battery out and solder the wires on.

Now, you need to put the wires on the VSA button. Look at where I put my wires to find out where to put yours. It's the first and second wires from the left. I tried doing this 2 ways. Bending all other ones other than the first and bending only the 2nd. Your choice. Both do the same thing. Test after.


Both of them attached:

Put some hot glue in the hole to make sure the wires don't touch and open the door undesirably.

I taped my boards on the back of this part after feeding them through the holes and putting the buttons in.

Clip the pieces of the dash back on and enjoy.

Last edited by famousamos; 07-24-2009 at 02:37 AM.
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