Trying to program a garage door on my 99 XK8 3 button panel. I tried Homelink steps to no avail. Does anyone know any tricks. Garage door is a Sommer but is supposed to work with Homelink buttons.

 

Did you wait long enough for the unit to start flashing?

 

Using the method in the handbook, holding down the button on the pale and the button on the opener remote, Car unit start off blinking then turns solid red.

 

Here is my copy of the paper TSB from 10/97. I should convert it to .pdf but it is a WORD document from a few decades ago.


If you have a modern GDO, you likely have ROLLING CODE transmitters.


If the GDO in your car has RED indicators, you have the older NON- Rolling code opener and there is NOTHING that will make it work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


If you have AMBER indicators, then you have the 'rolling-code' GDO and it should work!!!!!!!!
You have no idea how many arguments I've had with customers about this back in the late 1990s/early 2000s.


bob

 

 

Have you found this of any use? sommer-usa homelink

It suggests it is the rolling code type, so the later Jaguar Homelink should work.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I tried all the obvious methods including owners manual and Sommer method. I'm gone for vacation but when I get back I'll go back to square 1 and try it all again. :-)

 

It's has been awhile since I programed in my Garage Door Opener but I remember something about setting everything up and then getting out of the Car and climbing up and pushing a button up by the electrical system of the Door Opener...Apparently, that set the rolling thing they were talking about....buy mine is a 2005 and probably has that rolling code are whatever!

Billy Clyde in Houston

 

I vaguely remember jumping out of the car and pushing the purple or green "learn" button on the garage door opener until it stopped flashing, but I had to do this a couple of times.

 

I'm about to give this a try as well...thank you for sharing this doc motorcarman!

I converted it to .pdf for ease of use, hope you don't mind!

 

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!


It was something I always wanted to get around to but never found the time.
It was just pages from a flatbed scanner back in the late 1990s.


bob

 

Thanks. I saved this off to my files.

 

I tried off and on for about a year and could not get Garage Door Opener to work. Did a little research and found this. https://www.chamberlain.com/homelink-rptr/p/HOMELINKRP
I bought the Compatibility Bridge and now my Garage Door Opener in my XK8 works.

 

this was my situation too. The manufacturer of my garage door stated that it was not backward compatible with the system the car uses. It just wasn't important enough for me to pony up the extra $$$ for the"bridge" gizmo.


Z.

 

Been a while since I set one up, but you have to hold the outer two buttons until it starts blinking (fast?) then press the "program" button on the garage door opener in your garage, then you have to go back into the car, be quick because typically it's only 30 seconds you have, then you press and hold the homelink button in the car at the same time as the button on the remote that came with your garage door opener.


This is more or less the same for all vehicles. If your Homelink is programmed already you need to reset it.

 

When we moved into our newly built home 4 years ago I had the same problem with my '98. The builder sent the garage door installer over who took one look at the car and plugged in the bridge. Problem solved - no charge.