The two sliding doors on my 2004 toyota sienna keep freezing shut in cold weather. Dealer cleaned and lubricated the doors but that didn't help. Dealers next suggestion is to replace the cables in the door for $700/door but can't guarantee that will fix the problem. My two children have to enter the van through the back hatch. If an accident occurred, the kids would have to crawl over the front seats to exit the van since the side doors are frozen shut and the back hatch doesn't open from inside the van.
2004 Toyota Sienna locks complaints
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In december, 2006, my tailgate closed on its own, injuring my wife. Toyota replaced the rear stays (struts) under warranty, including the addition of some brackets. At first everything was fine. But when the weather turned colder (below 20f), the rear hatch would not open on its own unless opening under power. And then a couple of days ago (still very cold), the hatch closed on its own under power again. This time, my daughter and I were both in its path, but fortunately, so was a shopping cart. There were fortunately no injuries this time. I am frustrated that just 45 days after the problem was "repaired" it is already happening again.
The rear lift gate lost its full up position and rapidly came down. The power close function kicked in was near impossible to push back to keep it from crushing me. The pressure sensor did not seem to function. The rear lift gate is currently useless but poses a major safety concern with kids in our family. The dealer has not shown the expected sense of urgency in getting this problem fixed. This is our first new toyota and I am terribly disappointed with this situation, this will certainly affect my decision to buy another toyota brand if the problem is not addressed to my satisfaction.
Power sliding doors are dangerous. Several times, when parked on slight incline, door will close by itself and has closed on myself and family. The door is supposed to be designed to pop back open when it feels resistance but has squeezed me several times. Once my five-year-old was getting out of the car, closed the door with the button and then got his hand stuck in the door. It did not open back up, I had to open it, resulting in a dislocated elbow and a broken wrist (both bones). I contacted toyota, they sent me to the dealer, the head mechanic checked it about 100 times and put his own arm and head into the door, which of course did not lead to anything. Not two weeks later the door closed on my body, and squeezed me very hard before bouncing back open. I have called toyota, they are very nice and apologetic. I feel that because he wasn't injured worse or killed they won't do anything.
1. Nothing 2. Hatch would not stay up/ fell down on person trying to put stuff in hatch 3. Dealership is ordering part.
The automatic sliding door on my 2004 sienna has been a problem since we purchased the vehicle. At times, we can't open the door from the outside and other times, we can. Also, we recently closed the door with the automatic button and for no apparent reason, the cable broke so that we now have to open and close the door manually. Also, we have had issues with the acceleration of the vehicle if we are going from a stop position or a slow moving (less than 10 km/h) position. The van seems to slow down before shifting into gear. This is a serious problem when driving especially with children in the vehicle. My warranty has expired and I'm looking at having to pay for this on my own. I am dissatisfied with toyota, I have had this vehicle for only 2 years and I have had three recalls already. This is my 2nd toyota product and my last.
The lift gate of the back of my toyota sienna 2004 fell prematurely while I was loading in the rear trunk.
Driver door hinge is defective. This is a know defect in the first model year 2004 toyota sienna. Our dealer said this is a common problem and the only repair is to replace the door at our expense (~$1,000). We are very concerned that this defect will continue to get worse and cause the door to either not open or to separate from the vehicle in an accident. We feel that this know defect could be repaired at toyota's expense and not the customer's expense. We are talking about a 2 year old vehicle and it is unreasonable to expect such a costly repair as a "owner maintenance". We would like to know what information is available about this defect and how we can encourage toyota to take responsibility for this defect.
Dt*: the passenger side power sliding door locked and would not open. There were six ways to open and close the sliding doors and none of them worked. A couple of days later the door would open. This problem occurred intermittently. The door closed on its own while attempting to get the children into their child safety seats. The only way to keep the door from closing was to push on it manually. The dealership could not duplicate the problem.
Liftgate doesn't open fully.
Passenger sliding door mechanism sometimes closes but most of the time it starts to close and then opens on its own. The driver's side sliding door began doing the same thing recently. I usually have to throw my body weight into the door to actually close it. It's supposed to be automatic.
(1) we have a 2004-2005 toyota sienna xle with the back hatch that opens and closes automatically. We used our back hatch regularly and it hasn't been misused. We have opened it using the keyless remote, the ceiling mounted keypad, and manually. However, our hatch has not been working properly since february 2006. (2) when we use the button on our keyless remote or on the ceiling mounted keypad, the hatch opens but as soon as it reaches the maximum height, it automatically closes. When it encounters an obstacle, it does not open again as it should, but rather continues to close unless extreme force is applied. I have been trapped by the door on several occasions and my daughter (age 3) was almost pinned by the door as well. When we try to open the door manually, the automatic hatch does not work at all so we have to prop the door open with a large wooden stake or try to hold it open with one hand while attempting to place items in the trunk with the other hand. At times the stake has fallen causing the door to slam shut quickly. Also, at a certain height, the door will just begin to close automatically even though I am attempting to hold it open. I find this situation to be extremely dangerous and have avoided using our back hatch whenever possible. In addition, the automatic side doors are also supposed to reopen if they encounter an obstacle, but I have found that this is not the case. They require a great amount of force to reopen. The doors have almost shut on our children several times. Had I not been standing right there to force the door open, they would have been pinned. I am very concerned about the danger of this situation as well. (3) we attempted to fix the back hatch earlier this spring, but the service department did not have the part and said it would take 30 days b/f it would come in. We have not taken it back, particularly b/c the cost of replacing the part was $300+ which is too expensive for us at this point.
2004 toyota sienna liftgate closing automatically and striking the owner's head; problem occurred intermittently. At times the open door was activated, the door began to close, didn't close completely, would re-open and close again until forced physically into an upright position with some force.
From the date of purchase, the sliding passenger doors on my sienna do not stay open when the nose of my vehicle is pointing downhill. The dealership says they can not duplicate this and have never heard another complaint.
Dt: contact was concerned about the automatic locks on new vehicles. When starting the vehicle and it started to move, and the doors automatically locked. Contact was afraid he will not be able to unlock the door if the occupant was unconscious or if vehicle was in water or a fire broke out. *ak
Dt: both manual sliding doors made squeaking noises since vehicle was purchased. The noise distracted consumer while driving. Contacted the dealer and they tried greased it, shaved pieces of the parts, and ordered new parts. But problem recurred. . The first time consumer took vehicle to the dealer was august 11,2005, and it has been 6 times since then.
Dt: automatic hatchback on the mini van came down and didn't stop with the consumer in the way. The vehicle is being taken to the dealership tonight. The hatchback hit the consumer in the head, it didn't stop the hatchback pushed the consumer into the van and her mother had to grab it to stop it.
The sliding door on my 2004 toyota sienna was not opening properly, only opened about 3 inches. I took it to the dealership for oil change and to check the door on march 14th. Wheni called 90 minutes later to check the staus of the work, marco, the service rep informed me that the door was not fixed because it need a recall part, and the car need 2 other recall parts that need to be fixed. He advised that I make an appointment to bring the car back to have all the work done at the same time. The appoinment was made for march 21st. March 20th, one of my children went to open the door, forgetting that it was not work, the door flew open. I went to close the door, and it was off the back hinge, the only thing holding it to the car was the top wheel/runner apparatus at the top of the door. The door had to be tied to the inside to get the car to the dealership for repair the next day.
(1) 2 year old daughter pushed the button to close the automatic sliding door on our 2004 toyota sienna. It closed on her hand. (2) the door failed to reopen automatically, compressing it for approximately 30-60 seconds until it could be opened manually. Her hand was so swollen it was unusable for a week. Nothing was broken. (3) corrective measure was to disable the automatic door.
My toyota sienna 2004 minivan automatic sliding doors have failed to open on eight separate occasions since november of 2004. The doors are frozen shut and cannot even be opened manually. I have three small children and have been forced to have two crawl in through the rear tailgate over the seats or have them climb in the driver or passenger door and then over the seats. I have to lift a infant in an infant seat into the car in the same manner. Once you try to open the doors they fail to reclose completely so while I am driving the door open alarm is beeping because the doors are not fully closed, even while they still cannot be opened. I feel it is a safety issue to drive with the children in the rear this way, they could not get out quickly in the event of a crash or emergency and I am unsure if the door is "open" while we are driving while it is beeping and unable to open/close. I called the dealership and was told there was nothing they could do to fix this problem. The service department told me that they had a handful of siennas in during the last freeze because people had manually ripped the door handles off trying to open the doors.
Automatic sliding door struck the consumer when closing. Door will not stop even with total pressure. Dealer duplicated the problem, and could not stop the door. *ak the vehicle door will only stop sliding when pressure is put on it from the outside part of the door. The bulk of the door ( inside thick part) has no safety mechanism.
When on an incline automatic sliding door closes.
Rear manual passenger door in toyota sienna le (8 passager) does not latch under certain conditions ( we have narrowed it down to when windows are left opened). In texas due to heat conditions, windows are left open during spring and fall seasons. My dogs have been struck numerous times by "non-locking" doors and it has also caught my hand once (when parked at an incline). This is very dangerous and we have instructed our kids to only use the right side power door due to this safety issue. Dealer has indicated they cannot fix the problem. For a vehicle designed for family use (including kids), this issue needs to be resolved before kids get hurt.
Manual sliding door does not stay open when window rolled down. On my 2004 sienna le, the manual sliding door on the driver's side does not latch open if the window in that door is rolled down. This allows the door to slide forward on even a slight incline and run into occupants exiting the vehicle. The power sliding door on the passenger side does not have this problem, and there is also no problem if you first open the door and then roll down the window.
When the sliding door window is rolled down on the driver-side non-powered door, the sliding door does not latch in the opened position..thereby making the sliding door to slide close automatically causing injury to passengers especially children getting off the van.
While driving driver's side sliding door locked and unlocked for no reason. Vehicle was taken to the dealership, were they replaced the motor latch and a hinge.
The manual sliding door on my 2004 toyota sienna does not stay latched opened in intermittent circumstances. The door has rolled back on my 1 year old daughter and myself, forcefully hitting my upper arm. The vehicle has been taken to the dealer 4 times regarding this problem with latch adjustments and a new latch not curing the problem. It sounds as if our problems are similar to odi id#10067721
When opening the manual rear sliding door on the driver side. The door does not latch at times even after repeated attempts. The sliding door slid on a child when the car was parked on a down hill. Dealer cleaned the track on the door, but the issue occurred again the next day.
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