[tom @ eas]

You know your garage door remote. Maybe it’s clipped to your visor, or in your purse or your jacket pocket, or under the seat, or in the glove compartment, or stashed away in the console. Maybe it just drove away in the other car.

You know what the battery looks like, too, you replace it every year or so. It’s a nine-volt, or is it two AA’s? You better check before you buy new one. You might even worry about somebody swiping it and using it to get into your house.

We’ve solved these problems by electronically integrating the activation of your garage door opener remote into the high beam switch of your turn signal lever. A double flash of your headlight high beams opens or closes your garage door. <br>

Details:

- A small one time investment gets you the maintenance free system
- Less than half the price of HomeLink™ systems, especially in convertibles
- No remote transmitter to get lost or stolen
- No battery to buy or replace…Flash2Pass™ gets its power from your vehicle
- Digital encrypted signal and rolling code technology for ultimate security
- Quick and easy do-it-yourself installation
- Up to six transmitters may operate a single receiver
- Additional receivers may be installed elsewhere and programmed to your Flash2Pass™ equipped vehicle.
- Works with virtually any garage door opener manufactured since 1982

The Flash2Pass™ consumer products consist of the patented transmitter, and its corresponding receiver.

The transmitter is a radio frequency device that is mounted under the hood of the car. It is relatively small, approximately 2” x 2” x ¾” and is attached under the hood with either the enclosed screws, or the plastic zip tie. The wires are attached with quick crimp connectors to the headlight high beam positive wire and to the ground wire. The Flash2Pass™ transmitter is non-polarized so you can attach either wire to the headlight wires.

The Flash2Pass™ receiver is designed to replace the pushbutton inside your garage. If you have additional functions on your pushbutton that you would like to keep, the receiver can be installed next to your original pushbutton and “piggybacked” to it.



Features:

- A double flash of headlight high beams opens or closes garage door
- Digital encrypted signal and rolling code technology for ultimate security
- Quick and easy do-it-yourself installation
- Can also open and close gates
- Transmitter mounted under hood of car
- Up to 6 transmitters may operate a single receiver
- “Doggie Door” feature that allows the garage door to be stopped in a partially open state to allow pets to enter and exit the garage.

The Flash2Pass™ transmitter and receiver are packaged as a set that is pre-programmed at the factory, <img src="/images/vendors/f2p/f2pcontentssm.jpg" align="right">or they are available individually. For instance, if you had a two-car garage with one large door for both bays, you would buy one set and an additional transmitter. The additional transmitter would be installed in the second vehicle and the receiver programmed to accept it.

Say you had a vacation home with a garage door opener. You could get an additional Flash2Pass™ receiver for it and then program your car to it. That way, you wouldn’t have to remember to bring the remote with you. It will always be at your fingertips…both at home and on vacation.

Now, if you live in a gated community and the community installed the F2P Integrated Control Access System, you would be able to access the community gate, and your individual garage. We call this the “gate to garage” concept. Also if you worked in a place that had some sort of parking control and the F2P ICAS were in place, you again could use your Flash2Pass™ transmitter to gain access, assuming you were authorized and/or programmed into the receiver.

Models Supported:

1996-2007 3-series, including M3
1997-2007 5-series, including M5
1995-2007 7 series
2004-2007 X3
2000-2007 X5
1996-2002 Z3, including M-Roadster/Coupe
2003-2007 Z4, including M-Roadster/Coupe
2000-2003 Z8
2002-2007 MINI Cooper, including Cooper S & MINI GP

Installation is simple for the DIY type and should take no longer than 15 minutes

Flash2Pass™ Garage Door Opener System
http://www.europeanautosource.com/pr...roducts_id=619

Introductory special until Dec 17th!

[isugoo]

thats really cool!
Will you have DIY write up soon?

[tom @ eas]

Originally Posted by isugoo

thats really cool!
Will you have DIY write up soon?

Sure thing, it will only be about 3 steps since you need to tap one wire and ground another. This is possibly the easiest mod you can perform on your M3.

[Rguy]

Wont it look silly always flashing your high beams twice and then your garage door opens? People gonna wonder if you have someone hired to sit in your house and wait for you to flash them before they open the garage for you.

[tom @ eas]

Originally Posted by Rguy

Wont it look silly always flashing your high beams twice and then your garage door opens? People gonna wonder if you have someone hired to sit in your house and wait for you to flash them before they open the garage for you.

Doubt it. I'm sure they will want one for their garage as well.

[dreaM3]

^^^^that makes it even cooler. People will think that there's always somebody home

[t3stman]

Perfect timing. I might just get this instead of homelink but need to read up on it. Hey Tom, any discount for a GB ?

[tom @ eas]

Originally Posted by t3stman

Perfect timing. I might just get this instead of homelink but need to read up on it. Hey Tom, any discount for a GB ?

I already removed my HomeLink and sold it on eBay, this covered the cost of the kit with some extra cash. We've talked with the F2P guys for some time on this in the past and waited for the new version which was just released.

We're going to run the special until late next week. This is a great deal and not much more than a replacement remote....and much cooler.

[M3 Beast]

what's the range on these? I like to open my garage door like a few houses away so by the time i pull up the driveway it's opened already. Can it do that?

[mastek]

This is awesome Tom,
good work

now let's see about those windows up and down by press of key (not hold down).
Ideally:
- Press once = Unlocks All Doors & Trunk
- Press twice = Opens Front Windows
- Press thrice = Opens Rear Windows & Sunroof

And locks:
- Press once = Locks All Doors & Trunk
- Press twice = Locks All Windows & Sunroof

Sorry for the jack, but if Europe can have it why cant we ...
and it seems right up ur alley