Aux switches in place of the homelink buttons?

[JKaechler]

On my 2011 Tahoe, there are the normal 3 homelink buttons overhead. This model has the sunroof control and the power hatch control up there as well.

I am considering that row of homelink buttons (which i will never use) as a spot to put 4 small toggles for various other stuff. I know i wont be able to make it look just as if my mod was stock, but I could put a small trim panel over the homelink button holes. I have been trolling around on this site to see if anyone has done a similar mod, and how they handled it?

I find no results?

On youtube i found a guy who repurposed the actual homelink circuit board to control a few latching relays, but i dont think i want to go there.
I really like the look of the Auxbeam switch panels, but those are 8 or 6 positions, and seem too large for the available space.

anyone know of a thread that discusses this?

 

[Doubeleive]

one or two people I have seen post's doing something like you are talking about but with 1.7 million post's and a fubar search function it's pretty much good luck with finding it.
sorry I can't point you right at something

 

[S33k3r]

Theoretically you can use Google. Your search string would look something like this:

<search string> site: tahoeyukonforum.com

You might want to start with "buttons" or "homelink"

It's 3 AM here and I am exhausted and suffering insomnia, or I'd give you some sample results.

Good luck; your project sounds like something worth pursuing.

 

[Mean_Green]

Would there be a chance your Homelink Panel might possibly, maybe work in a '98 ? And if you were absolutely, certainly, positively never gonna use it again ... well ....

 

[mikez71]

You looking for homelink panel mean? If I figure something to put up there, you can have mine. Looking on ebay and wiring diagrams, its 3 wires (power, ground, backlight)

kind of like the ford upfitter toggle switches, but not sure they would fit back there..

Im already installing aux switches in console, BUT if I need some more .. (abs defeat comes to mind though i haven't needed it yet, i have slid down a muddy slope in my old toyota sequoia and i think it was the abs.. felt like it would not brake.. thought i was gonna slide right into a tree)

 

[Mean_Green]

I might be looking for one, but only if it's for a '98 series and only if I can install it without making it look hacked in. I do not have the upper console that it installs into though as far as I can tell. I just had the headliner replaced, so I will not be modifying anything up there.

Maybe there might be another place to put it somehow?

 

[mikez71]

Looks the same but older ones don't seem to have the led. They do have a bunch of them on ebay as well..

 

[S33k3r]

I've invested in an experiment with a later generation homelink system to port it back to our generation of SUVs/Trucks. Unfortunately, it was premature; I still haven't actually put everything together yet. Once I do test it, I'll report back the results.