Mazda 5 Sliding Door Won T Open

The outside handle literally came off in my hand.

Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.

For a while it was hit miss and sometimes it would lock and other times not. I managed to get the inside door handle cover off from the front. 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. It won t open from the outside or the inside after a recent snow ice storm.

I am trying to figure out how to open my wife s passenger rear sliding door on her 2007 mazda5. This issue here can be due to an internal mechanical fault with the door latch as most sliding doors use a latch at the rear of the door that can bind and cause this here try to clean the latch and lubricate it and the door latch striker and see if it then operates properly clean and lubricate the tracks as well for the sliding door if this does not correct this fault here let me know so we can continue. A temporary fix is to spray grease into the rear locking mechanism in door not the latch on the van body and saturate it so that the latch mechanism stays slippery. Repeat weekly in cold weather for optimal results.