Indicative ranges for the common jobs on the Sunshine Coast, so you can tell a fair quote from an opportunistic one.
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Garage Door Repair Sunshine Coast is a local service on the Sunshine Coast for garage door repairs, priced before work starts. Tell us what the door is doing and roughly where you are — coast, plain or range — and we'll send a technician who works that area.
No one can give a firm price without seeing the door. What can be published is the range each job type lands in, and that is enough to tell a fair quote from an opportunistic one.
A firm number quoted over the phone before anyone looks may be padded to cover the unknown, or it may change on the day. Both are worth being wary of.
$90 to $180 to attend and diagnose. We tell you when you book whether it comes off the repair, so you know the total before you agree.
Torsion springs $250 to $600 each; a two-spring door normally has both done. Cables $150 to $350, usually done alongside springs. Motor repair $150 to $450; a new opener supplied and fitted $450 to $1,200. Off-track $150 to $400. Servicing $120 to $250.
Replacement into an existing opening starts around $1,400 and runs past $4,000 for a wide insulated door.
Door weight — insulated and double doors need higher-rated springs and more hardware. Parts availability — a discontinued profile changes the economics entirely. Access — a steep or narrow driveway can add time.
And travel. Maleny, Mapleton and Pomona carry more of it than Maroochydore does, and an honest quote says so rather than hiding it in the part price. Measured in a straight line from the centre of Maroochydore, Montville is about 20 km away, Mapleton 23 km, Maleny 27 km and Pomona 39 km, and the road is longer than the line.
One spring gone on a door that has two. Both are normally done, so the springs alone come to $500 to $1,200 (two at $250 to $600). Add the $90 to $180 service call if it is not credited, and new cables at $150 to $350 if the old ones are frayed. The whole job then lands between about $590 (springs and service call only) and $1,730 (everything, at the top of each range). A quote far outside that band should come with a reason.
The opener hums but the door will not move. Check the spring before the motor. If the spring has gone, a new opener at $450 to $1,200 leaves the real fault in place. Do the hand-lift test on the springs page first; it takes a minute.
An old opener on the range. On the range, where Maleny averages about a third more rain than the coast (BoM stations 040121 and 040861), board faults from damp are part of the picture. Our view: when a repair quote passes half the $450 to $1,200 cost of a new opener, replace it, and fit a surge protector on its power point.
Every range above is for a house door. In Alexandra Headland, Mooloolaba and Caloundra, 40% or more of homes were flats or apartments at the 2021 Census. A door there may be a shared car-park door that the body corporate pays for, and such doors are priced as commercial doors. Report the fault to the building or strata manager instead of booking it yourself.
Suburbs across the Sunshine Coast include:
Where each job typically sits. The part and the door's weight move the number.
| Job | Indicative price | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Service call / diagnosis | $90 – $180 | Visit and assessment. We tell you when you book whether it comes off the repair. |
| Torsion spring replacement | $250 – $600 | Per spring. Two-spring doors are normally done as a pair. |
| Cable replacement | $150 – $350 | Often done with the springs — they wear together. |
| Motor / opener repair | $150 – $450 | Boards, capacitors and gear sets, where parts still exist. |
| New opener supplied and fitted | $450 – $1,200 | Depends on drive type and whether app control is wanted. |
| Roller door repair | $180 – $600 | Curtain, drum, spring or guide work. |
| Off-track / re-alignment | $150 – $400 | Usually a cable failure underneath it. |
| Panel or section replacement | $300 – $900+ | Per panel. Colour-matching a sun-faded door is the variable. |
| Remote or keypad | $60 – $220 | Coding a new handset is often a few minutes. |
| Full door replacement | $1,400 – $4,000+ | Into an existing opening. Sectional, roller or tilt. |
Prices are indicative only. What a job costs depends on the door type, the part, and whether it can be repaired or replaced. We give you a fixed quote after we assess the door, before any work starts.
How these ranges were made: Compiled on 1 August 2026 from published Australian garage door repair prices, weighted to repair work rather than new installations. These are national ranges, not a survey of Sunshine Coast quotes, and no technician's quote is in them.
Service call and diagnosis $90 to $180. Springs $250 to $600, cables $150 to $350, opener repair $150 to $450, off-track correction $150 to $400, roller door repair $180 to $600. A new opener supplied and fitted is $450 to $1,200.
Into an existing opening, $1,400 to $4,000+ depending on material and size. A single damaged panel is $300 to $900+, so on a newer door replacing the panel is often better value — on an older one, matching it can be harder than replacing the whole door.
We tell you when you book whether the service-call fee comes off the repair if you go ahead on the day, so you know before we arrive rather than after.
Won't open, won't close, or making a noise it didn't used to make.
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A broken spring stops the door outright, and it is the one job not to attempt yourself.
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Openers that hum, stall, run without moving the door, or have died entirely.
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Curtain, drum, spring and guide work on residential and commercial roller doors.
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