Someone Drove Into My Garage Door

How garage door openers work.

Someone drove into my garage door.

If you have an electric garage door opener it can most likely lift your door completely. I lightly tapped the garage. The most common type of garage door accident is when damage is done to the bottom half of the door. Your insurance may cover the damage.

The device he s created dubbed the opensesame can open a garage door using a brute force attack in less than 10 seconds. Before we get into the details of the vulnerability let s explain a bit about how automatic garage door openers developed. Someone can hack your garage door in 10 seconds. If someone else hits your garage door their auto insurance should cover the damage.

We get calls about once a week from someone who backed into their garage says jon jacobs owner of sound door services in renton washington. In fact many people crash into their garage doors in the winter after sliding on ice. Lately you can see a lot of articles and reports circulating on the web that mentions the fact that a garage door equipped with an electric door opener can be opened with a hack kid toy that s right. This is the sport that can get hit most by cars and other obstacles.

If you accidentally hit your garage door with your car don t panic. So i m a college student nebraska and made one of the most careless mistakes of my life today. On average standard garage door openers are strong enough to pull over 350 lb or 160. Garage door professionals say homeowners driving or backing into their garage doors happens all the time.

But whether your homeowners insurance or car insurance pays for it depends on a variety of factors. It s important that you understand that this may happen to you as well.