Mazda 5 Sliding Door Won T Open

I guess faulty power locks are in my blood.

Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.

However the past week or so my mazda 5 s driver side sliding door will not close. By david zipf. If you warm up the car in a warm garage or run with heat on high for an hour or more the locking mechanism will work again. The problem child is the driver side sliding rear continue reading fixing broken mazda 5 sliding door power locks.

After dealing the issue multiple times with my 2004 pontiac vibe see blog posts the same issue started with my 2012 mazda 5 about six months ago. The sliding door will not close in cold weather when the rear locking mechanism freezes or binds. First it won t open and when it finally does it won t close. How to remove the inside panel of the sliding door for a 2013 mazda 5 link to rear panel removal.

This time the front door power locks are working fine. At first i thought heating the car up will help but after an hour of the car already running heat at the highest setting still the same problem. I finally took it to my dealer.