Homelink is pretty popular in the US. It's a programmable unit that, in the W203's is inside the casing of the rear-view mirror. The homelink unit has 3 buttons which you can code your garage door opener, gate, or any other electronic home entry device. For me, I programmed my garage door opener to it, so now, I don't have to have the remote control for my garage door in my car. I simply press the button I coded and voila, my garage opens up.

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+1. The home link working perfect. The singnal is way stronger the my garage door remote.I can open my garage from far away.
But when program the home link to the rolling code garage door opener is a little tricky. It is like two step programing. 1. you need let one of home link button to set the same frequency as you remote. 2. use the program button on garage door opener to sync the home link. After that you can just leave your remote at home.

Just noticed There is no star on your grill? Where did you get it? is that matting grill?

No its just wrapped. Ok so I'm back onto this idea and was gonna start until i saw a auto dimming mirror so was gonna do it to this. But can anyone tell me since my car hasn't got auto dimming is my car pre wired for it

Hi, Could you please tell me step by step how to program the homelink to the garage door? I could not figure out how it works. Many thanks...

you should look in your car's owner's manual. Instructions may be different for different markets.

Thanks for the answer, but unfortunately I lost my my owner's manual

So could you please tell me how to do it?

I had to call Homelink's 800 telephone number (toll free number here in the USA). Apparantly, I wasn't pointing my garage remote to the correct spot, which was why it wasn't picking up the signal. After being told this, I was able to get it programmed with no issues.

If you notice your rear view mirror has an infrared emitter/detector on the front of the housing. Front, meaning the plastic housing of the mirror closest to the windshield. The emitter is recessed a bit. Once you find it, here's what you do:

Press and HOLD the button you wish to program. When light starts to blink, press and HOLD the button on your garage opener and aim towards the homelink emitter/detector. IF the homelink picks up your garage opener, it will flash quickly...then release all buttons. It should be progammed now.

Hope this helps.

Yeaaaaa,,,,,,,,,, It works

Thanks a lot.... the information that you gave me was so really helpful

wow great job and great DIY

Hey, anytime. That's what we're here for !!

Cintoman

Hello guys, I am trying to revive this topic after years with a question:

Can anyone who has the ambient light installed by factory tell me if the ambient light dims together with the rest of the lights (cluster and buttons) if you try to adjust the brightness from the dash?

I am popping this question because it might be the case that a dedicated line / wire from the OCP controls the ambient light bulb.

Simply connecting a small bulb or a LED plus resistor directly to 12v seems too easy

what happen to the pictures

Hi @Samantha83.

This thread is over 11 years old, so likely the pictures have been removed/deleted from wherever they were located on the server that the poster posted it to.

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