Mazda 5 Sliding Door Won T Open

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.

Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.

I finally took it to my dealer. 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. I guess faulty power locks are in my blood. This time the front door power locks are working fine.

However the past week or so my mazda 5 s driver side sliding door will not close. Mazda built the doors of all of these cars in a similar way. By david zipf. The sliding door will not close in cold weather when the rear locking mechanism freezes or binds.

It is important that we start off this tech tip noting that it mostly applies to mazda 3 owners but also likely applies to 5 and 6 owners as well. How to fix a broken mazda door handle. The problem child is the driver side sliding rear continue reading fixing broken mazda 5 sliding door power locks.