When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
Toyota sienna sliding door frozen shut.
This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.
The key fob also won t open or shut.
The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit.
Both our doors on our 2005 sienna have been freezing shut since we purchased it new.
My kids can not get in the car so they climb over the leather seats with their snowy.
It s a 2006 sienna with passenger power sliding door issues.
Toyota sienna sliding door rear lock assembly for 2016 2018 minivans and certain siennas to which current warranty enhancement program zh4 does not apply coverage for the sliding door rear lock.
With that the sliding doors on my 04 sienna froze shut.
I believe it is a two stage door closing process.
This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.
Is there anything i can do to prevent this incredibly.
Next morning the doors were frozen shut.
I have 2005 sienna manual sliding doors both freeze shut in the winter.
Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails.
The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.
I crawled in and warmed the car up and got the doors open.
Additionally the doors only work on good days all year long anyways.
Serious safety issue if you were in a front end crash and couldn t get out.
The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.
August 20 2010 at 1 43 pm.
Despite the thousands of people complaining to their dealerships toyota has done nothing.
When it snows sleets freezing rain the sliding doors stick.
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But this year my brother in law ripped the handle.
I was lucky the rear hatch would open.
The passenger side sliding door of my toyota sienna was stuck closed i pried open the door handle cover and was able to get the door open i went out to the rear to look at the lock actuator on the out.
I have a 2004 sienna i live in the northeast.