Gate & Garage Door Motor Repair Cost in the UAE (2026): AED Prices by Brand — FAAC, BFT, Nice, CAME, Somfy

Gate motor repair cost in the UAE in 2026 is AED 300 to 700 for almost every fault worth fixing — capacitors, control boards, limit switches and receivers — whether the unit is a FAAC, BFT, Nice, CAME or Somfy.

A full motor replacement runs from AED 1,650 installed for a sliding gate and from AED 3,000 for a swing gate, while a garage door opener is AED 2,250 (Marantec) or AED 3,000 (Sommer), all plus 5% VAT.

The brand does not put you in a different price band; it decides where inside those bands your job lands. BAB ALSARAY diagnoses the motor free of charge at your site, so you know the exact figure before any work starts.

Why the brand changes where you land in the band — not the band itself

Three things move a motor job up or down inside the shared bands. First, genuine parts price: a run capacitor costs a fraction of an original control board, so capacitor jobs sit low in the AED 300–700 repair band and board jobs sit high, whatever the logo on the housing.

Second, board availability

FAAC, BFT, Nice, CAME and Somfy all have official parts channels in the UAE, so genuine boards, capacitors and gears are obtainable without long imports — which keeps repairs in the band rather than forcing replacement.

Third, gearbox design

residential-duty gearboxes are cheaper to rebuild or replace than continuous-duty commercial ones, which is why replacement prices rise with the load: a CASIT sliding gate motor is AED 2,250 installed for gates up to 500 kg and AED 2,750 for gates up to 1,000 kg, plus 5% VAT.

This guide covers the motor itself on sliding and swing gates, barrier arms and garage door openers; if the fault is in the door panel, springs or curtain instead, our garage door repair cost guide carries those prices.

FAAC motor repair in the UAE

FAAC is the Italian brand you meet most often on UAE villa and compound gates, on both swing and sliding systems. The typical Gulf failure pattern — and it is a pattern, not a guarantee — is heat-stressed run capacitors on 230V sliding units and limit switch wear from dust and sand ingress.

Both are inexpensive components with genuine parts readily available, so FAAC repairs usually land in the low to middle of the AED 300–700 band.

If a FAAC unit has to be replaced, the price follows the gate rather than the old brand: from AED 1,650 installed for a sliding gate, and AED 3,000 for swing leafs up to 3.0 m or AED 3,750 up to 4.0 m, plus 5% VAT.

BFT gate motor repair

BFT, also Italian, has a strong footprint in barriers and heavier sliding gates on commercial and community entrances.

The common pattern we see in Gulf conditions is control board faults — boards working hard in high ambient heat and through voltage fluctuation take the hit before the mechanicals do.

A genuine BFT board swap typically sits in the middle to upper part of the AED 300–700 repair band, while simple receiver or capacitor work stays lower. A replacement BFT motor has no fixed list price: our sales team quotes it for the specific gate.

Nice gate motor repair

Nice is a popular Italian choice for residential swing and sliding gates, with tightly integrated electronics — the receiver and logic often live on one board.

The typical failure pattern is therefore electronic rather than mechanical: receiver faults, logic errors after power events, plus the usual capacitor ageing. That puts most Nice repairs around the middle of the AED 300–700 band.

As a largely residential-duty brand, a Nice unit is usually replaced at our residential prices — AED 1,650 installed for a LIFE sliding gate motor, or AED 3,000 for a CASIT swing motor on leafs up to 3.0 m, plus 5% VAT — which makes replacement an easier decision when a Nice board fails twice.

CAME gate motor repair

CAME, the fourth Italian name on UAE gates, is known for robust mechanicals on high-cycle entrances — apartment buildings, compounds, gates that open dozens of times a day.

The wear pattern that duty cycle produces is mechanical: worm gear and gearbox wear on heavy sliding leafs, more than electronic failure. Gearbox rebuilds and drive-train work sit in the middle to upper part of the AED 300–700 repair band because of labour time, while electrical fixes stay low.

CAME units are often specified continuous-duty, so their replacements sit at the top of our gate motor prices: AED 2,750 installed for a CASIT sliding motor on gates up to 1,000 kg, or AED 3,750 for a CASIT swing motor on leafs up to 4.0 m, plus 5% VAT.

Somfy motor and garage door opener repair

Somfy is the French brand in the group, strongest in garage door openers and lighter residential gate automation. Its typical Gulf failure points are the gentlest on the wallet: aged capacitors, drifted limit settings, and belt or chain tension on ceiling openers.

Most Somfy repairs land at the low end of the AED 300–700 band; if a Somfy garage door opener has to be replaced, a new Marantec motor is AED 2,250 installed (Sommer AED 3,000), plus 5% VAT.

On repair visits we also service Hörmann, Marantec, LiftMaster, Chamberlain and similar opener brands under the same price bands.

Repair or replace: the rule we use on site

If the motor is under seven to eight years old and the fault is a single component — capacitor, control board, limit switch or receiver — repair it.

An AED 300–700 fix on a sound gearbox and healthy windings typically buys years of further service, especially on brands with official UAE parts channels.

Replace when the windings are burnt, when the gearbox is worn beyond adjustment, or when this is the second failure inside a year — at that point repair money is chasing a unit that has reached the end, and a new motor, from AED 1,650 installed plus 5% VAT, is the cheaper path over any horizon longer than a few months.

What to tell the technician before the visit

Three things shorten the visit and often let us arrive with the right part on the van: the brand, a photo of the model plate on the motor housing, and the symptom in plain words — hums but does not move, moves then stops partway, no response to the remote, or works from the wall switch but not the remote.

The plate photo matters most, because board and capacitor part numbers differ between generations of the same model. If your unit drives a building entrance sliding glass door rather than a gate or garage, say so — our automatic door repair guide covers those systems and their prices.