Mazda 5 Sliding Door Won T Open

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.

Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.

The problem child is the driver side sliding rear continue reading fixing broken mazda 5 sliding door power locks. Mazda built the doors of all of these cars in a similar way. 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. 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. The sliding door will not close in cold weather when the rear locking mechanism freezes or binds. I guess faulty power locks are in my blood. First it won t open and when it finally does it won t close.

By david zipf. 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. How to fix a broken mazda door handle.