Garage door opener articles
These articles and videos from Sears PartsDirect can help you keep your garage door opener operating smoothly and safely. From tips to prevent safety sensor sun glare to troubleshooting remote control problems and how to make force adjustments if your garage door won't open or close, we can help. For more DIY advice, check out our garage door opener repair help section for common symptoms and their causes, error code information and step-by-step repair guides.
Effective articles & videos to help repair your garage door openers
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Most common symptoms to help you fix your garage door openers
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Main causes: neighbor's remote programmed at the same time as yours, faulty wall control wiring, bad wall control unit…
Main causes: faulty logic control board, bad RPM sensor, broken gears in the drive system, bad drive motor…
Main causes: loose fasteners, broken brackets, need preventive maintenance, worn drive gears, loose or worn belt, loose …
Things to do: check garage door travel, tighten brackets and fasteners, test safety sensors, check travel limits and for…
Main causes: garage door opener misaligned, travel limits need adjustment, bad travel limit switches, faulty logic contr…
Main causes: garage door locked, damaged garage door tracks, up-force setting needs adjustment, RPM sensor failure, bad …
Main causes: radio interference, weak remote batteries, sunlight interference with safety sensor beams, safety sensors n…
Main causes: safety sensor beams blocked, safety sensors not aligned, downforce setting needs adjustment, damaged garage…
Most common repair guides to help fix your garage door openers
These step-by-step repair guides will help you safely fix what’s broken on your garage door opener.
How to replace a garage door opener battery
The garage door won't move during a power outage if the battery is dead. Here’s how to replace it.…
How to replace a garage door opener wall control
If you push the control button on the wall control and the garage door doesn’t move, the control is defective. Replace i…
How to replace a chain-drive garage door opener RPM sensor
Learn how to replace the RPM sensor if the door only moves 6 to 8 inches at a time and the LED light flashes 5 times. …