NHTSA Complaint #10249899 — 2005 TOYOTA SIENNA

SLIDING DOORS ON 2005 TOYOTA SIENNA GET STUCK ' CANNOT OPEN OR FULLY SHUT. (BOTH MANUAL DOOR AND)POWER DOOR GOT STUCK AND WOULD NOT OPEN BUT TRIED TO OPEN SO IT GOT STUCK IN A SEMI OPEN STATE WHERE IT APPEARED TO BE CLOSED, HOWEVER, WHEN I STARTED DRIVING THE OPEN DOOR LIGHT CAME ON AND LIGHTS WHERE FLICKERING INSIDE THE CAR BECAUSE IT WAS NOT COMPLETELY SHUT. THERE WAS NO WAY TO EITHER OPEN IT OR COMPLETELY SHUT IT. VERY SCARY! IT WAS ABOUT 38 F AND WAS RAINING THE WHOLE DAY PRIOR TO MY DRIVING IT. THIS HAPPENED AT NIGHT. AFTER A SHORT DRIVE AND 2 TRIES THE DOOR SEEMED TO GO BACK TO NORMAL. THIS SITUATION HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE (OVER THE YEARS IN WHICH WE HAD THE CAR) WITH THE MANUAL DOOR WHEN IT IS TOO COLD OUTSIDE - USUALLY BELOW 32F. THE DOOR GETS STUCK AND WILL NOT OPEN. USUALLY AFTER THE CAR WARMS UP THE DOOR GETS UNSTUCK. HOWEVER, IN THIS INSTANCE I HAVE STILL NOT BEEN ABLE TO OPEN THE MANUAL DOOR (THIS IS THE DRIVER SIDE SLIDING DOOR) AND THIS IS ABOUT 24 HOURS LATER I CAN VISUALLY SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH IT BUT CANNOT OPEN IT. (OR CLOSE IT WHEN IT GETS INTO THAT APPEARS TO BE CLOSED BUT IT JUST A TINY DROP OPEN MODE) I AM THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS CAR SO I KNOW IT HAS BEEN VERY WELL TAKEN CARE OF. *TR