Toyota Sienna Sliding Door Frozen Shut

When it snows sleets freezing rain the sliding doors stick.

Toyota sienna sliding door frozen shut. August 20 2010 at 1 43 pm. Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails. Additionally the doors only work on good days all year long anyways. My kids can not get in the car so they climb over the leather seats with their snowy.

The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open. Next morning the doors were frozen shut. I have 2005 sienna manual sliding doors both freeze shut in the winter. I was lucky the rear hatch would open.

The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely. 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. When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.

Despite the thousands of people complaining to their dealerships toyota has done nothing. I have a 2004 sienna i live in the northeast. But if you pull the handle and hold it for a few seconds the door opens. But this year my brother in law ripped the handle.

Is there anything i can do to prevent this incredibly. Serious safety issue if you were in a front end crash and couldn t get out. The key fob also won t open or shut. 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.

This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so. The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit. Both our doors on our 2005 sienna have been freezing shut since we purchased it new. Toyotanation forum is a community dedicated to all toyota models.

With that the sliding doors on my 04 sienna froze 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. I believe it is a two stage door closing process.