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Old 07-24-2009, 02:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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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.




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Old 07-24-2009, 02:44 AM   #2 (permalink)
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im confused... i see 2 other wires.. do they go right to the battery? wait.. why are there two circuit boards? wheres the battery to power it?

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I'm doing 2 garage door openers. Battery's on the other side of them not shown. 2 wires to go to the extra VSA switch. It acts just like a momentary switch. It connects the circuit and sends the signal to open the garage.

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Thats actually pretty cool.. too bad i have a coupe and i have no extra button space
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soooo.. when you push the button in does it release? or does it get stuck down?

example: engine start (doesnt get stuck)
example window locker (push down to lock *button stuck down*, push again to release)

I'm not too sure if you know what i mean by the button staying pushed in?
i don't have a vsa button in my car do i don't know how it works...

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you should have put some kind of emblem on the button. such as cut out a design and tape it to the button before you paint it. that way you have the light shoing a customer design.

other then that, sick job man
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Thats actually pretty cool.. too bad i have a coupe and i have no extra button space
Coupes don't have the extra buttons?

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soooo.. when you push the button in does it release? or does it get stuck down?

example: engine start (doesnt get stuck)
example window locker (push down to lock *button stuck down*, push again to release)

I'm not too sure if you know what i mean by the button staying pushed in?
i don't have a vsa button in my car do i don't know how it works...
Yeah, I get what you're saying. It's like the engine start, it doesn't get stuck. The buttons before were just to fill the space because I didn't get navi, which is why I had to buy the VSA buttons.

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you should have put some kind of emblem on the button. such as cut out a design and tape it to the button before you paint it. that way you have the light shoing a customer design.

other then that, sick job man
Yeah, I was thinking about that, but I didn't think I would be able to do too good of a job on it, so I decided not to. Thanks.

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Nice mod, I was thinking about just hidding a momentary switch soldered to the circuit board mounted in the dash pocket under those buttons. That is clean!
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Nice mod, I was thinking about just hidding a momentary switch soldered to the circuit board mounted in the dash pocket under those buttons. That is clean!
Yeah, I thought about that and wanted to take it a step further. Same concept though.

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Coupes don't have the extra buttons?

Nope we have the power window control to the left taking up basically 2 spots and then the vsa button on the right so all 3 spots are taken.
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Nope we have the power window control to the left taking up basically 2 spots and then the vsa button on the right so all 3 spots are taken.
Oh I didn't realize that.
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Good job man. I'm assuming you have 2 or more garage doors.
i just got one big one.
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nice job man. innovative idea...only suggestion I could make would possibly to put some decals on them so you can clearly tell they are garage door openers...possibly something simple like this:



would make it look very OEM. but great job nontheless
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nice job man. innovative idea...only suggestion I could make would possibly to put some decals on them so you can clearly tell they are garage door openers...possibly something simple like this:



would make it look very OEM. but great job nontheless
Thanks. I thought about putting a design on it before painting, but decided to just make them solid black. I think decals wouldn't look professional, at least, if I tried they wouldn't.
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I've seen someone (not an 8th gen) integrate a garage opener to their high beams. That was cool. One flick of the high beams, the garage door opens. Sucks for people with HID in their high beams, though.
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I've seen someone (not an 8th gen) integrate a garage opener to their high beams. That was cool. One flick of the high beams, the garage door opens. Sucks for people with HID in their high beams, though.
Yeah before I did this, I saw that mentioned. But I didn't want to mess around THAT much. That wouldn't work as much for 2 doors either.
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gah im so confused haha
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With what? Let me help.
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where would i connect the vsa wires on this kind of circuit board....?
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