The key fob also won t open or shut.
Toyota sienna sliding door frozen shut.
Additionally the doors only work on good days all year long anyways.
When it snows sleets freezing rain the sliding doors stick.
Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails.
I have 2005 sienna manual sliding doors both freeze shut in the winter.
The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
But this year my brother in law ripped the handle.
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.
This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.
But if you pull the handle and hold it for a few seconds the door opens.
Despite the thousands of people complaining to their dealerships toyota has done nothing.
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.
I was lucky the rear hatch would open.
August 20 2010 at 1 43 pm.
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.
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I crawled in and warmed the car up and got the doors open.
I have a 2004 sienna i live in the northeast.
It was always annoying but we never took it to the dealer.
It s a 2006 sienna with passenger power sliding door issues.
With that the sliding doors on my 04 sienna froze shut.
The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit.
Serious safety issue if you were in a front end crash and couldn t get out.
This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.
The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.
I believe it is a two stage door closing process.