"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote:

It turned out that this was somebody from the Wayne-Dalton
distributorship, and he told me that even they try to steer people away
from the iDrive.

They've long since stopped advertising iDrive in the WD ads around here. Now
adays the ad shows a standard looking garage door and fine print that mentions a
standard screw type opener.

Too bad - I always liked the iDrive concept, but I guess they never got the
engineering right.