All of this is pointing to the motor inside the door that essentially pulls the handle for you when you remotely open the door.
Sienna sliding door wont open but tries to.
This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.
Toyota sienna sliding door will not unlatch with remote youtube.
Toyota sienna vehicles with this problem.
I wind up having to manually close the door.
Migrated this video over from my other channel.
Here s a video of me demonstrating the problem.
So the sliding door on my sienna got stuck and would not open from inside nor outside.
This should work with 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008.
However on occasion the door will not close once its open.
Passenger door ended u not opening from the inside and outside so i decided to figure out what happened.
Soo i opened it.
The door opens fine using keyless door button interior and exterior door handles and overhead buttons.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
Turns out a very small piece broke off that was prev.
The outside door handle goes dead and every other way of opening the door results in the door trying to open even further and then stops.
The electric motor s circuit will become overloaded and this will trip the fuse and prevent the door from being closed entirely.