Genie Garage Doors

I recently purchased a Genie Garage Door Opener with an extension because I have an 8' door. The opener was purchased through Walmart, the extension through Genie. The opener was a nightmare to attempt to install. I've installed door openers before and never had a problem, I even had 2 of my mechanically inclined friends try to help me with no luck. I returned the opener through Walmart and when I went on the Genie web page to return the extension their policy is if it's opened they won't take it back, I even e-mailed the company to try to reason with them but no luck.

I purchased a house built in 2012 in 2017. Previous owners had replaced 3 boards on 2 of the intellig 1200 units. One of those units went out again, another bad board so this is the 4th board that needs replaced. The units are plugged into surge protectors. I have a detached garage with a 3rd intellig 1200 unit, that board just went out. That garage is used only about 6 months a year and maybe cycles the garage door 90 times per year. So in 8 years, three units have required 5 boards at $140 a piece. Genie is useless, refuses to admit they produce junk that breaks every two years. I’m tearing all these units out, throwing them in the trash and installing liftmasters. Absolutely junk product, junk company, junk customer service. Would not recommend except maybe to my worse enemy.

My door opener broke after 11 years and it has a lifetime warranty. The problem is it came with my home and I do not have a receipt for it. I went to 3 levels of their customer care and was told NO. They will NOT honor their warranties without a receipt. That is BAD business, if you offer a lifetime warranty then you should stand by it.

The traveler carriage (attaches to the door and moves along the bar) wore out. Ordered a replacement and reconnected the door opener. Only the wall activator lit up. The electric eye would not come on. Reconnected all the wiring and nothing came on. This time the electrical connections in the motor came loose and moved around making it difficult to connect wiring. Called Genie c/s and they said a new set of connections needs to be installed. I would think a garage door opener would last longer than seven years with only moderate use.

My self-installed Genie garage door opener worked fine for 6 months, but then didn't. The wait to speak to anyone at Genie has been over an hour every time I've tried them. I clicked on "chat", but was told, "Sorry, chatting is just to discuss orders for parts". The issue I have is not addressed in the manual, so I guess I have two choices, call a repair person to do what I could likely do if told what to do, or toss the 6 month old Genie and buy another brand. I certainly won't buy another Genie.

Bought a high end garage door opener for our new house, less than 6 mo. ago. Purchased it at our local Lowe's and it was installed. Several days ago, the belt broke. Called Lowe's and since it was still under the warranty, they sent out a serviceman to inspect and fix. Was told they had to order a part. OK, Today, Lowe's called us to say Genie wants us to call them. I was confused by this, but, I did it. I also had the invoice from the serviceman in front of me, (this was mid-day and I was at work). I called Genie, the wait/hold was 55 minutes, I left my number for a call back (45 minutes later). I gave the customer service rep all my information. He stated nothing was pulling up! I was reading off the invoice.

Model 4062 Excelerator Garage Door opener. Serial no. 150084211344 II purchased from Home Depot in 2015 completely failed on May 14, 2019. It is burned out such that the lights won't work, the motor won't operate, nor will the indicator lights for the up/down stop program reset work. Clearly the circuit board is defective. Contacted customer service. They acknowledged it was within warranty, but refused to provide a new circuit board.

I bought a very expensive opener ($280.00). I thought if everything was Genie, everything would work together. Both garage door openers are Genie, all of my hand held openers are Genie and the wireless keypad outside is a Genie. All Genie products. I installed the garage door opener, programmed all of my cars and all of the handheld remotes. The only thing I couldn't get program was the wireless keypad outside the door. I read the confusing manual and after 2 hours of messing around, I called the customer support number. They worked with me for 1 1/2 hours with no success. Together, we did everything that I had done on my own. I was finally told I needed to buy a new wireless keypad. Genie has updated their wireless technology and made my keypad obsolete.

We built our house 9 years ago, had a Genie 2022 garage door opener installed. Within the 1st year the circuit board failed, that one was replaced with no hassle through my subcontractor. Then in early 2015 the circuit board failed again. I called customer service and explained that this was the 2nd one that has failed. They wanted to make sure it was the circuit board.

I just spent 4 hour on the phone four separate times with two first level, then two second level supervisors. My door opener since the past two or three days would start to open the door and then stop abruptly. I thought it was the carriage since that has happened before. Ordered and replace the carriage, still, same issue. Called Genie this morning, and the first... first level tech I spoke with insisted it was the door. I explained the there are new (newer) torsion springs (2 years) along with new rollers, all freshly lubricated etc. We did the balance test and the door passed. Still must be the door. Disconnect the door from the carriage and try it he says... OK, the carriage moves fine from limit to limit. "See, it must be the door since if you remove the load, the opener works fine."