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