Mazda built the doors of all of these cars in a similar way.
Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.
However the past week or so my mazda 5 s driver side sliding door will not close.
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.
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 guess faulty power locks are in my blood.
How to fix a broken mazda door handle.
First it won t open and when it finally does it won t close.
By david zipf.
The problem child is the driver side sliding rear continue reading fixing broken mazda 5 sliding door power locks.
How to remove the inside panel of the sliding door for a 2013 mazda 5 link to rear panel removal.
I finally took it to my dealer.