My garage door will open only a few inches and then stops.
Genie garage door only opens a few inches.
When you hit the wall button or remote control button it only goes a short distance and stops without completing the cycle.
Genie garage door opener opens and closes from switch on genie unit closes with remote and wall switch doesn t open with remote or wall switch.
My garage door only opens a couple of inches and stops posted by ali tyler on wed oct 01 2014 01 07 pm tweet.
The door opens as usual but upon closing struggles and about every few feet i have to engage opener.
Problem the same regardless if using wall or remote opener.
Clicking the remote at that point just closes it.
This short is most likely to be in one of two places.
Garage door only opens a few inches then stops.
This is another very common problem we hear described by customers.
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After a few minutes i realized one of the wires for one of the garage door eyes was covering the eye so i moved it and the door closed.
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This issue can be an easy fix.
In most cases when a garage door opens or closes by itself or when you find your door open upon returning home the problem is due to a short somewhere.
Garage door will only open about 3 inches then stops this morning i opened my garage door drove out tried to close it but it refused to close.
Unfortunately this problem is not usually a do it yourself fix like the safety photo sensors we talked about in a previous blog post.
Routinely oil the bearings cleaned eye sensors etc.
Either in one of your transmitters or in the wall button or its wiring.
I have a genie garage door opener model sd9000.
Same result with remote or wall switch.