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Added homelink to my 2006 this weekend.

Ryan212

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It drives me nuts to have garage door openers in my vehicles. I searched on ebay and a homelink visor was not available, and the a new one was a couple hundred dollars.

I purchased a transmitter for $9 (with $5 shipping) so total cost is $14

Since my H3 does not have lighted mirrors, it makes this significantly more difficult than the other installs that I have done.

Since the H3 had homelink as one of the options, the visor has the cutouts already for the module. As far as I know all of the visor mounted units will interchange. I have put a Chrysler in my wife's Edge and I do not know what this one is from that I put into the H3.

First, I started to remove the material off of the visor. Using flathead screwdriver and a right angle pick you can pull it off. If you have lighted visors you will need to remove a lot less.

I pulled all of it off, as I had the run a wire through the visor. (I forgot to take pictures of this) I drilled a couple of holes where the end of the metal rod ended, so I could get to the end, and used this to fish wire into the visor cavity.


This is not a full step by step, but showing that it is possible. Step 1 color compare the used. I was happy with the color match.

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Cutting out of the cavity for the unit. (note, red/black wire was added by me)

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prepare module by removing the buttons (small screwdriver underneath to release the clips)

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positioned into place (I had to cut off the 4 little ears in the corners, it still required a screwdriver to put into place.

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Recovered material, with a credit card. Pick a point and go around the visor carefully.

Finished look. I added some metripack 150 connectors and wired it to a switched power source so the garage door buttons do not work when the key is off for security purposes.

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Ryan
 

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Paranormal

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Nice job. Thank for taking the time to post and photograph the install. I also hate having the garage door opener in my console. I plan on making this, one of my winter projects. Where did you wind up hooking up the power?
 

Ryan212

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Orlando
I used a switched power source for my off road lights. I have a 70 amp relay that turns everything off with the key but if your truck has a regular ignition system there are several switched power sources that could be used. I like to use the radio or cigarette lighter circuits. Something that if the circuit fails not a big deal.

Ryan
 

Paranormal

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what color is your visor and do you have lighted mirrors?

There is what appears to be a gray one (says tan so be careful) on ebay for $42 with free shipping

http://www.ebay.com/itm/06-07-08-09...ash=item2ca53efd21:g:KnoAAOSwfZ1WXmTG&vxp=mtr

Ryan

I jumped all over this. I would like to add a little more info to this valuable thread. I removed the windshield pillar trim by removing the plastic cap in order to gain access to the torx screw. Once the screw is removed, carefully pull the trim piece away from the windshield and disconnect the tweeter and then you can finish removing the trim piece by unlatching the bottom from the dash. There is a wire harness and a separate plug with two wires. After viewing a wire schematic on another website, I was able to tap into the ground wire(exposed ) on the plug and the power wire (Orange) on the harness. Installed my new visor today and did the wiring in less than 30 minutes.
 
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