But this year my brother in law ripped the handle.
Toyota sienna sliding door frozen shut.
But if you pull the handle and hold it for a few seconds the door opens.
Next morning the doors were frozen shut.
Is there anything i can do to prevent this incredibly.
The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.
When it snows sleets freezing rain the sliding doors stick.
This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.
Despite the thousands of people complaining to their dealerships toyota has done nothing.
Toyotanation forum is a community dedicated to all toyota models.
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 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.
It was always annoying but we never took it to the dealer.
Additionally the doors only work on good days all year long anyways.
I have a 2004 sienna i live in the northeast.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
The key fob also won t open or shut.
The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.
I believe it is a two stage door closing process.
With that the sliding doors on my 04 sienna froze shut.
I was lucky the rear hatch would open.
This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.
Serious safety issue if you were in a front end crash and couldn t get out.
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.
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.
August 20 2010 at 1 43 pm.
Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails.