Homer3D

I have had my 2013 for a week now and for the life of me I could not get Car2U's version of the homelink working with my Linear garage door opener. In my 2005, it took me all of 30 seconds to get working but on my 2013 it just wouldn't work. Of course it took me 3 days to figure out that they changed from Homelink to Lear so I started following the instructions both in the manual and on Lear's website with no success. I just decided to give up and just have one of my extra remotes in the car.

Well today I figured I would give it one more shot and I called their support number (866-572-2728). The lady on the phone had me go through this odd sequence of hitting the 3 buttons. Hit left 3 times, hit right 5 times, hit center 2 times, etc. (I should have wrote the sequence down). This needed to be a 2 man job. After the sequence, had my wife hit learn with specific instructions to watch the LED lights on the opener. She hit learn and I hold the button I want to use. Wife says, lights blinking then went solid. Lady on phone told me to release my button. Wait 2 seconds and hit my button again. Garage door went down. Wait a little and hit button again. Door went up.

The old Homelink was way easier but I am glad I got this working.

I see a lot of posts from people having issues getting their Car2U working so I suggest you give their support line a call. Good luck!

RicK T

You need a degree in "Lear" to set those up.

I think we've pretty much been telling people to call the support number. The Lear support seems to do well.

solodogg

Just got mine setup with a Linear garage door opener with some help from your instructions, and some help from Linear's website. Hopefully these directions will help someone else that has a 2012 and up, or a Gen II Visor. *Note* Gen I and 2008-2011 cars will require an adapter available from Lear to function with Linear openers.


Step 1: Push 2 outside buttons simultaneously for 1-2 seconds until all 3 are solid.

Step 2: Push Left and Center buttons simultaneously for 1-2 seconds until all lights are flashing.

Step 3: Push Left button 3 times (this indicates Linear opener)

Step 4: Push Right button 3 times (this indicates TX:000)

Step 5: Push Center and Right buttons to create false code (I used 01010 which was Right, Center, Right, Right, Center, Right, Right). Each press of the center button changes the number. Rights saves that number. Pressing Right without center indicates 0.

Step 6: Push all 3 buttons simultaneously to save programming. Lights will flash rapidly, then go off.

Step 7: Press any button you want to program for 2 seconds until light flashes then goes off.

Step 8: Press and release learn button on garage door opener. *TIP* you have 15 seconds after doing this to program opener

Step 9: Press and hold the same button from Step 7 for exactly 5 seconds. Garage door opener light will flash on and off. Release button.

Step 10: Press button again. Garage door will now open or close.

Rshacklefordmt

Solodogg's method worked for my Linear LD050 garage door opener with my 2012 ford f250 super duty with Lear car2u.

Stavesacre21

The TRUE issue that I've found with the Car2U transmitters isnt even with the setup at all...its that most garage doors that weren't made in the last 5 to 7 years don't support it. Most people seem to spend minutes if not hours trying to get it to work without realizing that a lot of the garage door openers made in the last decade don't support Car2U signals.

Why ON EARTH GM decided to go with us over the Homelink system is beyond me. It absolutely HAS to be a money/profit thing.

ben dover

^This^

Richard Ames

I had to buy an adapter at arrount $35 including shipping. My wifes Durango RT learned the garage openers code instead of the other way arround. Instead of mounting it on the opener I mounted it to the wall switch and it works fine.

Rshacklefordmt

I thought I had to buy an adapter but following Solodogg instructions i got it to work!

Stavesacre21

I did see the same adapter on their website, but I found it hard to believe that I couldn't find any anywhere else. You have to buy directly from their website.

In the end, it ended up being a moot point for me. I ended up removing the visors since I'm too tall and found that they impede top-down experience.

With so many people carrying around a mild-2-wild fob, I've never understood why its such a hindrance to keep a garage door opener in the car as well.

joec

ya, their implementation is pretty much a POS IMHO... I'll get my fat a$$ out of the car if my hand held doesn't work.. What garbage...

johnny3

Many of the new home additions have security gates for entrance, pretty sure that's why G M made the change.

timd38

HomeLink was more money, so GM went with Lear because of price, and they got what they paid for. They though they could leverage JCI into a lower price, it didn't work. That maybe one of the reasons that Lear went BK during the 2008 downturn and JCI did not. Business is only good business when you make money at it.

I retired last year from the company that owned HomeLink at the time.

Stavesacre21

This is the kind of insiders info I love to hear on the forum. Makes it a whole lot easier to factually put these theories to rest.

Thanks for the insight

ATC399

really...ok

timd38

Nope! Purely price.

Stavesacre21

With GM, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

Rob Mihilewicz

​​​​​​Just can't get it. I have a 2012 f150 with a linear ld050 garage opener. Followed exactly and can't get it to work. On step 7 it won't flash. Just stays lit. And on step 9 won't flash either. I'm baffled. I have a chamberl opener which works fine but would rather use the car2u feature in my truck

BadAV

I worked for both JCI and Lear. Lear went bankrupt because of senior Management's aggressive, leveraged expansion plans to try to become the biggest automotive supplier. Leverage works fine as long as a downturn doesn't occur; when it does, you are in trouble.

The automotive business was never a core holding for JCI because it takes too much capital to keep it going. They tried to sell the battery business in the late 80s because of the potential lead liabilities, but had no takers. JCI was, in my experience, a much more conservatively run business than Lear.

I was part of the beta testing for Car2U in the early 2000s. I had a Sears rolling code opener at the time and had no issues programming it to the system, but there were many employees who had issues trying to marry their opener to the Car2U system. Car2U was always more difficult to program to openers and did not cover nearly as many manufacturers as Homelink. Just like any for-profit business, GM chose Car2U because Lear sold the system at a lower price as they tried aggressively to get their foot in the door with their product.

Racer1735

Homer3D

Well it is nice to know they are still making C6’s in the year 2095.

In any case, I would call Lear because it was close to impossible for me to figure it out on my own.