I crawled in and warmed the car up and got the doors open.
Toyota sienna sliding door frozen shut.
When you activate any of the switches to shut the door it does move and try to close 1 it is very slow and gets slower 2 as the door shuts and engages the locking mechanism it only locks part way.
But if you pull the handle and hold it for a few seconds the door opens.
With that the sliding doors on my 04 sienna froze shut.
The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.
But this year my brother in law ripped the handle.
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.
The key fob also won t open or shut.
It was always annoying but we never took it to the dealer.
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.
Additionally the doors only work on good days all year long anyways.
I have 2005 sienna manual sliding doors both freeze shut in the winter.
The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit.
Is there anything i can do to prevent this incredibly.
My kids can not get in the car so they climb over the leather seats with their snowy.
Both our doors on our 2005 sienna have been freezing shut since we purchased it new.
I have a 2004 sienna i live in the northeast.
Despite the thousands of people complaining to their dealerships toyota has done nothing.
It s a 2006 sienna with passenger power sliding door issues.
Serious safety issue if you were in a front end crash and couldn t get out.
When it snows sleets freezing rain the sliding doors stick.
Next morning the doors were frozen shut.
The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
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.
August 20 2010 at 1 43 pm.
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