Garage door remote and keypad repair
If the wall button opens the door and the remote does not, nothing is wrong with your door. The fault is the remote, its battery, or the receiver board inside the opener — and this is the cheapest call on our list.
Typical cost
$90 – $175
reprogramming, new remote or keypad
Time on site
About 30 minutes on site
Try this before calling
Change the battery first, even if the LED still lights. A weak battery lights an LED long after it has stopped transmitting.
Then try from close range. Remotes lose distance before they lose function, so a remote that only works from ten feet away usually points to the opener's antenna rather than the remote.
If a second remote works and the first does not, it is the remote. If neither works but the wall button does, it is the receiver.
Keypads and Florida weather
Exterior keypads live outdoors year-round, and the membrane under the buttons is the first thing to go. Once moisture is behind it, individual digits stop registering — which is why people are convinced their code suddenly stopped working. A keypad is a sealed unit; when the membrane fails it gets replaced.
We also pair remotes to HomeLink and Car2U systems built into most cars, which is worth doing while we are already there.
Questions about remote & keypad
Can you program my car's built-in button?
Yes, in most cases. HomeLink and Car2U pair with the common rolling-code openers, and we do it as part of the visit.
I lost a remote. Should I worry?
On a rolling-code opener the risk is low, but the safe move is to clear the opener's memory and re-pair only the remotes you still have. It takes a few minutes.
What else turns up on a remote & keypad call
Need remote & keypad today?
You get the range on the phone before a truck leaves the shop.