No Power To My Sienna Power Sliding Door Motor

The door is supposed to unlatch first before it triggers the motor to pull it open.

No power to my sienna power sliding door motor.

A bad sliding door motor might also cause the door to partially open or close. When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload. Or it may not allow the door to move at all. In some cases a power sliding door can still be operated manually if the motor fails but in others the door might be stuck in place.

If a power sliding door motor is going bad it might make a clicking or knocking noise. You can reset the power door system at home to save the time spent at a dealership service center. It might also sound like it is grinding. Resetting the system will reprogram the battery and computer chip so that the doors respond to the door controls.

Replace only the motor of the latch instead of the entire latch unit. If the door was frozen shut and you commanded the door electronically you may have done some damage. Most common problem is the motor of the latch fails. This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.

The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely. If the power doors on your toyota sienna stick or stop responding you may need to recalibrate the doors by resetting the power door system. Diagram of oem side loading door. The sliding door latch is not working see the picture of the latch unit.

The door is powered by a motor very similar to one found on a power window the door tracks are fed by a small metal cable that run from the door to the motor if the door was frozen and the motor was commanded you may have snapped the cable causing the cable to jam motor or it may have just burned out the motor. Come along as i struggle to videotape the diagnosis and fix for a 2011 toyota sienna inoperative sliding power door which won t open even when in manual mode. The motor does have a built in thermal resistor heat fuse that will. August 2015 i uploaded new toyota sienna sliding door repar video.

This is an issue you want to diagnose first because it s quite easy to do so.