Mazda 5 Sliding Door Won T Open

By david zipf.

Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.

I guess faulty power locks are in my blood. However the past week or so my mazda 5 s driver side sliding door will not close. The sliding door will not close in cold weather when the rear locking mechanism freezes or binds. How to fix a broken mazda door handle.

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. 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. 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. 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.

This time the front door power locks are working fine. Mazda built the doors of all of these cars in a similar way. How to remove the inside panel of the sliding door for a 2013 mazda 5 link to rear panel removal.