Have To Hold Garage Door Button Down To Close

When the door is up the sensor lights are off.

Have to hold garage door button down to close.

Hold down on the buttons until the in car red light flashes rapidly. Eye on both side of the door is not on i have to hold down the bottom in the garage to bring the door down. You have something blocking the sensor. This causes real hassle as i can t use my remote opener to open the door as well.

Hold your transmitter up near the selected button pressing both the garage door remote and the selected in car transmitter button simultaneously. Why do i have to hold down the button to close the garage door. It could be something small. If i let go of the bottom the door stops.

But seems to be unable to close all the way. When it is fully open or close left sensor solid red right sensor solid green. The problem starts when you hit the button to close it and the door starts to close. After i hold the button down to close it the sensor lights come back on.

There are a pair of little plastic things at the bottom of the rail pointing at each other usually between 6 and 12 off the floor. My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down. This sets the in car transmitter to be your garage door openers make transmitter but you are not done. So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning.

Here is what happening. I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly. Garage door won t close using the remote but closes. Woman uses makeup mirror to help fix garage door.

I can immediately think of 3 possibilities.