The cable in the side door is prone to fraying and then breaking.
2005 toyota seinna side sliding door will not operate.
The auto sliding door on the driver s side will not completley close.
Step 2 raise the hood of the van and disconnect the negative battery cable with a wrench.
Press the sliding door control button on the sienna s dashboard so that the red line on the button is illuminated.
In this situation the best thing to do is to replace the cable.
None of the buttons work to open the door anymore.
Close the sliding doors.
The actuator went bad.
At first the door won t work properly.
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.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
If you pull the handle on the inside or outside it doesn t open the door it behaves just like it is locked.
When pressing the door open on the fob for the passenger sliding door the door would try to open but could not.
The driver s side automatic sliding door on our 2005 toyota sienna xle no longer works automatically.
It still works if we manually hold the exterior door knob or the interior door knob out for a few moments.
It closes then pops back open a bit.
This happens when the power sliding door.
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.
The door open warning comes on and we can t get it to stay closed.
The sliding door would work manually pulling the door handle.
I guess that means that the cable has not broken yet.
The sliding door on the passenger side of my 2005 toyota sienna does not work like the other side.