Sliding door final closing phase..

[aestivator]

Hi all,

I replaced both actuator motor and cable winding mechanisms on my 05 Alphard's rear sliding door about 6 months ago. After an initial clunking (see earlier post) it settled down and has been working fine. A couple of weeks ago A roll of Electrical cable slid across the floor (its a camper) and banged up against the door. Ever since then the final phase of closing where the motor pulls the rear of the door into the frame for locking has stopped working, everyhting else works fine. You have to push the door in the last cm or so by hand for it to close properly and lock Ive disconnected the battery etc but no effect. Can't see anything obvious.

 

Any ideas?

[Rojie]

1 hour ago, aestivator said:

Hi all,

I replaced both actuator motor and cable winding mechanisms on my 05 Alphard's rear sliding door about 6 months ago. After an initial clunking (see earlier post) it settled down and has been working fine. A couple of weeks ago A roll of Electrical cable slid across the floor (its a camper) and banged up against the door. Ever since then the final phase of closing where the motor pulls the rear of the door into the frame for locking has stopped working, everyhting else works fine. You have to push the door in the last cm or so by hand for it to close properly and lock Ive disconnected the battery etc but no effect. Can't see anything obvious.

 

Any ideas?

 

Check out mattieewhooo's latest post.

 

It may be relevant.

[aestivator]

Thanks Rojie. I think he is referring to the actuator which starts the process when you pull the handle. I have aready replaced this as it was getting a bit lazy. This bit works fine. Its the end of the process when the door actually pulls itself finally shut before locking. You can here it after the beeping, there is a whirring noise and the dooe pulls in ot the locking mechanism.

[mattieewhooo]

On 10/1/2023 at 11:23 AM, aestivator said:

Thanks Rojie. I think he is referring to the actuator which starts the process when you pull the handle. I have aready replaced this as it was getting a bit lazy. This bit works fine. Its the end of the process when the door actually pulls itself finally shut before locking. You can here it after the beeping, there is a whirring noise and the dooe pulls in ot the locking mechanism.

 

I know there's a couple bolts on the top and lower brackets for the door (that hold the door onto the vehicle).

 

Maybe you can loosen those and then adjust the door a little more inward towards the van, and then tighten the bolts up again. 

 

Give it a try and get back to me. 

[aestivator]

Hi. Thanks for replying. Having looked at what was happening at the other door that was still working, the locking mechanism itself was working. But the whirring of the motor when it pulls the door in wasn't. Having took some guidance from another forum I bought a second hand complete unit on eBay and everything is fine. Seems like the culprit is a microswitch not activating the motor. Hope that is of use to someone, sometime.