Sienna Sliding Door Not Opening

The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit.

Sienna sliding door not opening.

The automatic sliding passenger door on my 2005 toyota sienna won t open. If you pull the handle on the inside or outside it doesn t open the door it behaves just like it is locked. When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload. The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.

Step 2 raise the hood of the van and disconnect the negative battery cable with a wrench. Here s a video of me demonstrating the problem. Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails. Toyota sienna sliding door will not unlatch with remote youtube.

This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it. Press the sliding door control button on the sienna s dashboard so that the red line on the button is illuminated. Close the sliding doors. Passenger door ended u not opening from the inside and outside so i decided to figure out what happened.

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. Turns out a very small piece broke off that was prev. The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open. This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.