When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
Sienna sliding door stuck.
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.
Frayed cable the cable in the side door is prone to fraying and then breaking.
The automatic sliding passenger door on my 2005 toyota sienna won t open.
The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.
Latch motor failure sometimes the side door will struggle to open when you press the button to automatically open it.
The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit.
Last night i sprayed everything with silicone spray with no luck.
We have an 05 sienna and like everyone every winter the side sliding doors freeze.
I broke the handle off last winter and got the opportunity to figure out how to replace it which wasn t all that difficult and sure enough today it s 6f outside and the door is stuck.
Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails.
We can think of a few common reasons.
The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.