tony

I am looking for a grey driver's side visor with the built in garage door openers from a '98 E Class. Will trade you my identical pristine grey visor with garage door openers plus $120 for your trouble. The only difference between the visors is that the ones on the '98 will work with new rolling code garage openers and the one from the '97 will not. So if your garage door opener does not use rolling code technology you have nothing to lose and will come out ahead by $120.

tony

Come on guys! I'll even pay for all shipping costs and if you are in the Atlanta area, I will do the R/R work.

apb

I don't understand what your problem is.
I have a 97 E420 and it works great with rolling codes.
I fact, I have a brand new genie garage door opener in my house.
You need to first teach your visor to duplicate one of your remotes, then you need to teach your opener that the visor is one of the remotes. Try several times until it works.

michakaveli

If the visor blinks amber, it's rolling codes. If it blinks red, it's not rolling codes.

mobinakhtar

Hi, i have a 97 e420 and my grage door openers blink red. It works perfect with my rolling code sears brand garage openers. i dunno if it is any important, but mine never worked until soemone tipped me to put key in number 2 position and code them.

some garage doors units have a learning mode too that will program to whatever yo are emiting. Look behind the unit and you will see if it has a learning mode.

You may want to try to program yours all possible ways before swapping. Have a dealer or someone else program the visor for you. maybe you are not doing it correctly. I have done that for a year thinking they did not work at all. Then someone with a honda home-link system showed me how to progam his, and that worked for the 420 perfectly. Read your manual and try, try again.

Good luck

tony

Well, I have tried every possible way including the learn phase to no avail. The Homelinks on my other three cars work fine.

galleryvw

i have a '97 420 too, and i've never been able to get the remote to work. i have the genie opener, not sure which model, but it has the screw drive and comes with the outdoor keypad (home depot style). i believe it is a rolling code model, and it does have a learning button, but i've tried to program my car remote following the instructions for a new genie remote (process involves learning button on opener head unit) and it didn't work. those of you with '97's, are you sure you're opener uses rolling codes? i thought we determined only +'98's could work with rolling codes.

i wish my remote worked.....


vince

gstigler

apb and mobinakhtar,

You guys don't have rolling codes. The 97 E 420 does not work with rolling codes. I've been looking for a 98 visor myself for several months. They are hard to come by.

Tony, I have the solution to your problem. Take the remote that came with the garage door opener and slip it onto your current visor using the clip installed on the remote.

michakaveli

werd.

tony

Geoff: Thanks for the brilliant solution. I don't know why I hadn't thought of such an elegant solution. Do you think my visor will hold all four remotes, or should I clip two on the driver's side and two on the passenger side?

gstigler

What do 1998 visors cost from the dealer or replacement parts sources? I agree that it is frustrating to not have those work.

Didn't mean to offend you with my dry humor Tony. And yes, two on the drivers side and two on the passenger's side will work just fine.

carlsson9

what kind of visors are you guys talking about? is it the rear view mirror? can you actually program that to work with your garage opener..didn't know such a thing existed

Whitey

Not much of a demand in Asia I guess

tony

Well, from my local dealer, the visor for a '98 is $480. I have four garage doors and each uses a different remote. I have at least three remotes clipped to the visors at one time. They look ugly and either won't let me fold the visor all the way down, or they slide off the visor.

mobinakhtar

Hi,

The freaking garage opener unit says 'rolling code for your security" so I do have the rolling codes working from my 97 (Built 8/97). However, maybe earlier builds do not do so.

here is my solution. Look for this visor, or any visor in any color from the junkyards. remove the door opener unit and transplant it into the one you have.

it may require some work. but I know, if you convince the junkyard guy about the garage door opener stuff, theyll probably sell it to you for les than $100. If i were you, i would look for a broken, dirty, or distorted one that they cannot sell otherwise anyway.

any upholstry shop should be able to sew these back for around $15.00 (People who install TVs in visors do it all the time)

tony

Must be a build month thing. Mine is an 11/96 build.

mobinakhtar

Either that, or that the car must have been ordered with the rolling code garage door opener specifically. I can't tell colors worth a flip because the wife insists its purple or pinkish while all I can tell is that the blinking light in garage door opener seems red!

E-Klasse

If you are going to attempt a transplant of the Homelink module then you don't even need to get a Mercedes visior. The module is not exclusive to Mercedes. Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota and others from 98 to 2000 have the same module but you have to tear the visior apart to get it out. It only requires conenction to power to work.

mobinakhtar

I agree EKlasse! My 2000 Honda accord had one and I know for a fact that junkyards in Houston sell Honda visors for around $35. Onlie junkyard can also be great help.

I donot see much demand for a Honda accord or a Camry visor besides Most Accords come gray already so you can get one out that will match perfectly.

like I said in previous thread, just take your MB visor to car audio places that put lcd monitors in visors. They should gladly swap them for around $30-$35.

apb

My 97 E420 is a 10/97 production date - one of the last.
I know my garage door opener is rolling code, and my visor works at least twice every single day . . .

galleryvw

okay, so let me get this straight from those of you with rolling code genie openers and '97s:

you follow the MB instructions involving holding your remote to the visor and making the visor replicate the remote. THEN you use the learning button on the head unit of the opener to recognize the visor? makes sense, i'll have to play around with it this weekend. i tried to sync my visor for an hour or so one night, but i may not have tried that combination of steps in that order. hmmm.

cflanza

Not sure if this helps, my rolling code garage door remote only blinks for a fraction of a second everytime i press it. So, when i was programming the opener for the car it would not read/learn the guinie remote. What i did was take the cover off the guinie remote and directly place a wire to where the two wires that on the button of the guinie. Kinda bypassing the button of the guinie remote. this way the remote will be transmiting signal for a while until you let it go. Thats when my homelink learned the rolling code and press it several time for the garage opener to learn your homelink. hope this helps.