Sienna Sliding Door Not Opening

This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.

Sienna sliding door not opening.

The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely. If you pull the handle on the inside or outside it doesn t open the door it behaves just like it is locked. Turns out a very small piece broke off that was prev. Press the sliding door control button on the sienna s dashboard so that the red line on the button is illuminated.

Here s a video of me demonstrating the problem. This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so. Toyota sienna vehicles with this problem. The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.

Step 2 raise the hood of the van and disconnect the negative battery cable with a wrench. Toyota sienna sliding door will not unlatch with remote youtube. Close the sliding doors. When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.

Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails. Passenger door ended u not opening from the inside and outside so i decided to figure out what happened. The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit. All of this is pointing to the motor inside the door that essentially pulls the handle for you when you remotely open the door.