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Keith B wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Excaliber wrote:Here's a video on another garage door vulnerability you may not be aware of, along with the fix.

What a great idea.

And windows in your garage door may let in light, but sure are a good way to see if your vehicle is there or you are gone. Not a fan of them in the door.

SewTexas wrote:

Excaliber wrote:

SewTexas wrote:this is how our car, and a couple of others, was broken in to on Easter Sunday back when we lived in CO, plus they pick up some junk mail. Then they took a GPS they'd gotten from another car in the parking lot, went to our house first and using OUR garage door opener, walked right in.
After that day we started a team that monitored the parking lot during services.

This exposure is why the wife and I don't keep garage door opener transmitters in our vehicles. We use a code pad mounted on the outside door frame. I'll accept getting rained on a bit occasionally to know that no one is going to do what you just described.

I also treat the door between the garage and the house as a perimeter door with a solid deadbolt and I keep it locked. If someone managed to get into the garage, he's got another barrier to overcome before he's in to living space.

yes, we have had a dead bolt on the garage door since, and it's always locked. We don't use our garage door anymore, our garage has pretty much become my husband's workshop, but when we did, we kept the opener hidden, not on the visor like before.

SewTexas wrote:this is how our car, and a couple of others, was broken in to on Easter Sunday back when we lived in CO, plus they pick up some junk mail. Then they took a GPS they'd gotten from another car in the parking lot, went to our house first and using OUR garage door opener, walked right in.
After that day we started a team that monitored the parking lot during services.