The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.
Sienna sliding door not opening.
Passenger door ended u not opening from the inside and outside so i decided to figure out what happened.
Toyota sienna sliding door will not unlatch with remote youtube.
This is a common problem on your vehicle and other years also you can try spraying a lubricate on the latch to see if it will free up also problems with the cables on the doors up to a couple grand or more to have repaired per door.
Here s a video of me demonstrating the problem.
Step 2 raise the hood of the van and disconnect the negative battery cable with a wrench.
This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.
Toyota sienna vehicles with this problem.
Close the sliding doors.
The automatic sliding passenger door on my 2005 toyota sienna won t open.
This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.
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.
Press the sliding door control button on the sienna s dashboard so that the red line on the button is illuminated.
Turns out a very small piece broke off that was prev.
All of this is pointing to the motor inside the door that essentially pulls the handle for you when you remotely open the door.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails.