2005 Toyota Seinna Side Sliding Door Will Not Operate

The cable in the side door is prone to fraying and then breaking.

2005 toyota seinna side sliding door will not operate.

In this situation the best thing to do is to replace the cable. At first the door won t work properly. This happens when the power sliding door. 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. The driver s side automatic sliding door on our 2005 toyota sienna xle no longer works automatically. Then it stops working at all. The actuator went bad.

The sliding door on the passenger side of my 2005 toyota sienna does not work like the other side. Press the sliding door control button on the sienna s dashboard so that the red line on the button is illuminated. 2005 toyota sienna xle automatic sliding door not closing. The sliding door would work manually pulling the door handle.

Step 2 raise the hood of the van and disconnect the negative battery cable with a wrench. The auto sliding door on the driver s side will not completley close. It still works if we manually hold the exterior door knob or the interior door knob out for a few moments. Close the sliding doors.

When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload. None of the buttons work to open the door anymore. 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. I guess that means that the cable has not broken yet.

The door moves very slowly and if the van is sitting slightly uphill the door does not seem to have enough power to close by itself.