What you are describing the door not opening when you try opening it remotely by keychain fob or the electric buttons is a different issue which i ve written a repair article on as well.
Fixing sliding door on 2010 toyota minvan.
If the sliding door motor assembly is used excessively it can wear out.
It turns out that this is actually quite a simple fix.
I have no idea if the us toyota van models differ that much but i highly doubt it.
The sliding door motor receives power from the body control module when the input signal occurs and stays powered up until the door reaches its limit.
Take out the seat closest to the defective sliding door.
The two doors are just mirror images of one another though.
This is the canadian ce model.
3 accept roughly 3 700 trade in value on replacement vehicle.
Sienna sliding door fix we own a 2010 toyota sienna minivan.
Thanks for your comment.
When your sienna side door won t close one possibility is a circuit overload.
In this situation the best thing to do is to replace the cable.
How to fix 2004 2010 toyota sienna sliding door will not open or close with the remote how to replace the slide door lock release motor assy.
Without further ado here s how you can replace the side door cable assembly in your sienna.
An electric motor is attached to a chain that pulls the door open or closes it along a track.
2 spend 1 800 to properly repair replace sliding door.
We found out the cable was broken my toyota sienna power sliding door was down.
How to replace the power sliding door cables on a 2004 2010 toyota sienna therefore some of these pictures will be from the left door and some of them will be from the right door.
This happens when the power sliding door isn t able to latch on properly due to something blocking it.
This just gives you more room to work on the door roll down the window on the defective door.
How to replace power sliding door cables on 2004 2010 toyota sienna.
Life must go on but please do come back for the repair the automatic door sure is nice when you have a handful of groceries or kids.
Three bolts and less than an hour of work.
2006 toyota sienna power sliding door would not open or close automatically.
On the side of the door is a hex screw holding the plastic panel in place.
Then it stops working at all.
I m borrowing some of these images from another repair i did on my van.
This design covers 2004 to 2010 sie.
Recently one of the sliding door hinges began to fail.
Even this might be somewhat high due to the rust through on the sliding door.