Sienna Sliding Door Freezes Shut

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Sienna sliding door freezes shut.

I have an 04 sienna which had the doors freeze shut at temps just below freezing was extremely difficult to open until vehicle warmed up. We ve had some freezing rain. With cooler weather comes a complete host of life changes. In this situation the best thing to do is to replace the cable.

Despite the thousands of people complaining to their dealerships toyota has done nothing. I know this problem from our sienna. Often associated with the holiday season winter can bring about a wide range of joys it s no wonder there are countless songs sung about snowball fights families huddling around the fireplace and the general feeling in the air brought on by the cold. I have a 2000 sienna xle with passenger sliding door which quit working this winter when when the door was frozen shut.

Tips for preventing patio doors from freezing shut. Serious safety issue if you were in a front end crash and couldn t get out. August 20 2010 at 1 43 pm. If it wasn t bad enough that our 2005 xle had the door weld issue and the cable corroding and breaking causing the door not to open now on cold days both sliding doors won t open until it warms up and not just in the driveway.

Additionally the doors only work on good days all year long anyways. At first the door won t work properly. Now the sliding door light is on all the time. My 2005 toyota sienna sliding doors will freeze shut once i get inside and push on the door it will open and it will work normal then if it is not open for a awhile it will do the same had it to the dealership and they have serviced it but if left overnite or for a period of time in the cold it will do the same thing.

This happens when the power sliding door. November 2011 in toyota. Then it stops working at all. Sienna sliding doors freezing shut help please.

With that the sliding doors on my 04 sienna froze shut. We have to drive to. The solution wasn t to lubricate didn t work but rather to replace the seals altogether. Is there anything i can do to prevent this incredibly annoying problem.

The cable in the side door is prone to fraying and then breaking. We used the silicone spray and the problem went away. When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.