Customer Reviews

Instapark® Dual Garage Door Laser Parking Guide System

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

I have the same complaints as others:

1. The red lights don't stay on long enough after they are activated by motion.

2. The adjustment "heads" don't move around nearly as much as they should to cover a two car application. I had to get crazy with the mounting to make this able to hit both cars. I have a high ceiling, and had it been a low ceiling, it would have been impossible to get the heads articulated in such a way to reach both cars. I should also add that I back in one car, and pull the other straight forward, so this complicated things.

In the future, I would probably opt for two different single units for a two car application. If you have a large two car garage with separate doors, I have a really hard time thinking this will work, especially if you have a standard 8ft ceiling. I was only able to accomplish this due to my 10ft ceiling and the fact that my garage is incredibly narrow with a single door.

The unit is easy enough to install. My garage has a high ceiling and, thus, I had to secure the laser system to the underside of the existing garage door opener. I plugged the AC adapter of the laser system into the electrical outlet on the ceiling right above the garage door opener - it certainly helped that the length of the connecting wire was over four feet long! Then I parked and positioned both my vehicles exactly where I wanted them and adjusted the laser arms to set the light beams to show up on the dashboard where I desired. The system, including the motion detector, works fine and it undeniably looks cool - my only gripe is that I wish the laser light stayed on a bit longer (I timed it a few times and sometimes it would switch off within 15 seconds and sometimes within 30 seconds).

This is a replacement for the one we bought about 3 years ago manufactured by MAXSA and it does not meet up to that standard.

First the symbol for the middle battery is backwards.

The range of adjustment for the lasers is limited by the high shoulders around the joint that holds the lasers in place.

The motion sensor turns the laser of too quickly.

Works well with the exception of these items.

Disappointed , although it Might work for one car, you can not spread the two beams wide enough for two vehicles. For the price, and not wanting the bother to send it back, I grabbed my handy Dremel tool and trimmed away some of the plastic. OK that problem solved, I can now point the beam to hit the dashboard of both cars.

However, I found that the motion sensor does not reliably pick up a car as it comes into the garage. I'm an electronic technician and opened it up to take a look. It uses an infrared sensor not an ultrasonic or optic. It needs heat to trigger the laser on. Your cold car won't do it. So, after you drive you cold car into the garage wall, the sensor will come on when you (at 98 degrees) get out. Junk, go back to the tennis ball on a string, I did.

This item did not work for my 2 car garage application. I mounted the unit about even with the hood of the car. When I pulled the car in it didn't detect the montion. I have 9' ceilings. i then mounted it about even with the front door of the car. The unit now comes on but by the time you have reached the area you are parking the lasers have gone out. Being that there is no way to adjust the time on the lasers or the sensitivity of the motion I would not reccomment this unit.

I was very excited to receive this dual laser parking device. I've been trying to figure out a clever way to keep my wife from pulling in too far, or not pulling in far enough and closing the garage door on the car (yes, that has happened!) However, once I got this dual laser unit, I quickly became very disappointed. The first problem is the range of motion of the swiveling ball-joints is VERY limited. I wanted to point the laser at the dash, just in front of the steering wheel of each of our two vehicles. I have a 24'x34' garage with 9' ceilings, so lots of available space for locating this thing. However, there proved to be nowhere in the garage I could put this device and get both lasers to point where I wanted them to point due to the extremely limited motion of the ball-joints. Through my repeated handling of trying various locations, one of the lasers stopped working completely! Very disappointing! I don't know if I would purchase this type of product again, but if I did, I would probably buy two single laser units instead of this dual laser unit. I love the concept, but disappointed in the quality!

This thing is a total piece of junk. One laser was way out of focus. Attempted to fix it but all the cheap wiring made it impossible. Ended up tossing it in the trash rather than wasting more time shipping the thing back. Don't waste your hard earned $.

Well, what more can I say. This Instapark Dual Garage Door Laser Parking Guide is built very cheaply and fell apart before I could even get it installed. Don't waste your money on it. I recommend the old tennis ball on a string. At least if it breaks, it is cheap and easy to replace.

Very poor quality, one laser dim and intermittent, and range not adjustable to work with two cars. But, a real handyman special. Here is all that I had to do -- First find and resolder the cold solder joints on the little PC board - seems to have fixed the dim/intermittent laser. Then use your hand grinder tool to cut down the plastic shoulders around the laser mounts - this allows enough adjustment range to just work for two car locations. Working for now, but I have very low confidence that it will last more than a week or so. Seriously, in my opinion, this is a piece of junk - stay away from it.

Arrived with a broken wire to one of the two lasers. A bit of soldering fixed it, but that's not something a normal customer should have to do. Bought this one to replace an identical item (but with different branding); the first unit got zapped by a electrical glitch after a year in-service. (Actually to think about it, I had to repair a broken wire on the first one too.)

I have the same mounting complaints as the others, the lasers can not be angled sideways enough for two cars. Again, a bit of Dremel (hand grinder/filing) work fixed that, but I'd revoke the license of the engineer that designed this thing. I've got a 12' ceiling in the garage, it would be near impossible to mount with a low ceiling. You can do the geometry: without modification there is a max of ~70 degrees between the two lasers when mounted straight. Assuming a 8' ceiling and dash is 3' off the floor, there is less than 6' between the two spots.

That said, when it works, it works great. Both spots easily visible in daylight, though that was not true with the previous unit which had one weak laser. Motion sensor picks up most movement in view, the lasers stay on ~30 seconds after movement stops.