Sienna Sliding Door Not Opening

This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.

Sienna sliding door not opening. The automatic sliding passenger door on my 2005 toyota sienna won t open. Here s a video of me demonstrating the problem. Passenger door ended u not opening from the inside and outside so i decided to figure out what happened. Step 2 raise the hood of the van and disconnect the negative battery cable with a wrench.

If you pull the handle on the inside or outside it doesn t open the door it behaves just like it is locked. Press the sliding door control button on the sienna s dashboard so that the red line on the button is illuminated. This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it. Turns out a very small piece broke off that was prev.

The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely. This is a common problem on your vehicle and other years also you can try spraying a lubricate on the latch to see if it will free up also problems with the cables on the doors up to a couple grand or more to have repaired per door. All of this is pointing to the motor inside the door that essentially pulls the handle for you when you remotely open the door. Close the sliding doors.

When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload. The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open. Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails. If you push the open button inside the car or on the fob you can hear the motor try to open but the door doesn t budge and the motor stops after a second.