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Garage Door Remote Weirdness

3 times now in the last 3 days, I've opened the garage door with the wall button, driven out and used the remote to close the door, but it won't close. Doesn't sense the button being pressed on the remote. So I go back inside, push the wall button and go back out to the car. Coming home, each time, I point the remote towards the door from 60 feet away or more.....and it opens right up. How can it NOT sense the signal when I'm 10 to 12 feet away after having just pulled out of the garage, but it's got it just fine when I'm still out on the street and pointing it from so far away?
Posted: 12/03/2024 at 03:33 PM ET

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Garage Door Remote Weirdness
Late 80s Hokie 12/03/24 03:33 PM ET
Aliens. Probably the Pleadians**
ColoVT82 12/03/24 08:07 PM ET
Freaky...that happened to me yesterday (just once). Never happened before??**
HOKIERIT 12/03/24 08:05 PM ET
A few years ago, we had intermittent times that our remotes did not work.
dgc76 12/03/24 07:09 PM ET
What??? Damn**
HOKIERIT 12/03/24 08:05 PM ET
Had similar issue & found at certain times of the year (fall & spring)
tongahokie 12/03/24 06:41 PM ET
Solar flare activity.**
scoop76cs 12/03/24 05:49 PM ET
Have you rebooted the remote yet?**
MAHokie69 12/03/24 05:47 PM ET
Electrical issues around Christmas? Gremlins, obviously.**
Kudelski 12/03/24 05:35 PM ET
Where's Phoebe Cates when you need her?
KCHokie2 12/03/24 07:11 PM ET
You got spooks. **
Stork 12/03/24 04:28 PM ET
They prefer to be called "Specterical Americans"**
EDGEMAN 12/03/24 04:59 PM ET
Spectricigal?**
astrohokie 12/03/24 05:25 PM ET
More @ spectral 😉**
astrohokie 12/03/24 05:26 PM ET
Might be the battery in your remote is weak.
Wythe Hokie 12/03/24 03:58 PM ET
or blow on it if its cold **
bigbadbird 12/03/24 05:55 PM ET
Try hitting the close button when you're either in the garage or in...
EDGEMAN 12/03/24 03:48 PM ET
I worried about that, but mine is integrated in my car (HOPE that's not it)**
HOKIERIT 12/03/24 08:07 PM ET
A Homelink system.
EDGEMAN 12/04/24 05:52 AM ET
i wonder if he turned it off and back on yet ?**
bigbadbird 12/03/24 05:05 PM ET
something is blocking the angle **
bigbadbird 12/03/24 03:46 PM ET
Yup.**
PhotoHokieNC 12/03/24 04:50 PM ET