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- In this video I'm showing you the process that's needed to repair a power sliding
door on a 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT. This repair covers quite a few years such as 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006, it also covers quite a few different models of minivans such as the Town and Country and the standard caravan. This repair is for when you have symptoms of the door on the side of the van passenger door that is only opening a few inches when you push your key fob to open the door or when you push the designated button on the overhead console inside the van. Although your power motor for the door may have quit working it's more likely that the wiring going to the motor under the running board for the rear passengers has broken and the wiring needs repaired. This is an easy simple repair and can be done with very limited tools and experience I will try to show you step by step what's needed so you can get your power sliding door to work the way it use to.
Thanks for watching!
Man, you rock! I've been without a power slider for almost two years, thinking it was the motor being burnt out. Then when the other one didn't work, I figured $400 for parts and self repair. I saw your video and had both fixed within an hour. Great video, great instructions. The wife is thrilled and I'm gettin' lucky tonight! ;-)
Awesome, glad it helped! On your van and in the bedroom.
Angel j
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This is an extremely well done repair video. The content, length, audio and video are right on the mark. Thanks!
I just bought an '05 Caravan for my wife and i was able to get several hundred dollars off the asking price because the power doors didn't work. I just fixed them for free! Thank you!
Awesome, thanks muchly my dude. I just scored a 2005 SXT at 130k mi for $400 from a coworker. Only problems are no AC, right pass door won't power open/close, and pass locks won't power lock. Oh, and the brakes are shot. Easy fixes. Beautiful car. Gonna squeeze as many miles out of that $400 as I can, hahah
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Thank you. You were right on with the fix. One wire was split completely close to the clip and pin connector for the track. God bless. Easy fix cost me nothing but some grease on my fingers. But remember to unhook battery the wires are live!
Thanks so much for posting this video! I repaired mine today and the break in the wire was almost exactly as you showed. You saved me a bunch of money on this repair and I really appreciate it!
Just used this information and fixed my entirely not working passanger slider. Thank you!!! It took literally 5 mins to diagnose and fix!!
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I took my van to the dealer shop they told me that the motor was bad and to replace it would cost 400 dls...
I was looking in you tube to see if I can find a video how to fix it and I found your video ..
thank you so much my husband fixed it following your instructions..
thank youuuuu!!!
Amazing what dealers get away with
Foxboss9 My friend Cara Asselin has a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT edition!
I just bought a 2006 SXT for $800.00 with 108k miles.. It's mint. They just got tired of stuff not working and sold it. The doors were one of them.. Now I know whats going on. As I can hear the motors. The doors just don't open.. They also thought the rod bearing were failing. As you could hear a ticking..It was a broken spark plug wire at the coil...
Sadly. I got to buy a new Cat.. Someone stole it...Another $200.00 for that...But I'm going keep it. It's that clean...
Just a ditto on several of the above comments, YOU ROCK !!!! thank you so much, 2 years without both side doors and had given up all hope of solution, no way I was spending big bucks at the Dodge dealer @ 187,000 miles................... don't hardly trust them...... I'll look to you for other solutions in the future as the best vehicle I've ever owned goes for 200k ! Thanks again, good pace and explanation of steps !
I had the exact same problem with my '05 Grand Caravan, I did exactly what you said. My green wire was broken inside the insulation but was easy to spot.
I soldered the wire and wrapped with electrical tape. Reassembled and works like a charm.
Thanks for the video and you saved me some $. Thanks!
Like your vids, very straight and easy to understand.
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You are the MAN!!!! I was about to buy a new motor and thought... mehhhhhhh... I better check youtube. Mine does exactly the same thing. I'll be digging into it this weekend. Thanks so much for posting this!
Been watching videos about this repair for the last hour -- and yours is by far the most user-friendly. I'm a weekend mechanic, and don't take on too much. But with your instruction provided her, and fantastic camera work -- this is very feasible. Thank you for the video.
Thanks You Very much!! I love to here when my videos can help.. !!
in fact, just took me thirty minutes to do this. never worked on electrical before. thank you so much, the red/white wire was 99%severed in the exact same spot as the video. thank you so much!
Hi. this exact problem has been going on for about 3 mos. with my ' 05 grand caravan. looked at the wiring, & sure enough, there it was! A little solder, a little electrical tape and i was good to go. thank u!
good!!
Such a stupid design on Chrysler's part...
9 year old video, still teaching the public. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Saving us tons of $
My siding doors on my 2005 Caravan haven't worked in years.
With the help of your video both doors are now working like brand new!
Thank you for posting this video Fb9.
That's great!
Okay, this video has got me investigating the wires, thanks for making a well illustrated video. I can use a lot more help with my GCV SXT.
Good luck..
Best explained. Short and clear. Thank you! Will fix mine tomorrow. 😁👍
I enjoyed your straight forward video as my issue was exactly as yours, a clean break in the same spot. Thank you. I found it interesting that this repair also solved the "power window in the sliding door doesn't work" complaint. So, if your power door and power window aren't working, this would be a great place to look. My daughter was quoted a worst case scenario of $1,600.00 to repair these two issues and I was able to do it for free in about 20 minutes.
Bill Russell glad it helped! 👍
I have repaired both sides of my 2004 Grand Caravan. the repair has lasted longer than the original.
Also to all Automatic door owners. When the door is opened or closed manually there is a magnetic disc in the Power door moror that "disengages" the motor so that the door moves freely. I have found over time that the disc will keep the motor magnetically engaged and make the door difficult to move manually (feels like you are working against the stagnant motor). When I disassemble the motor and clean the disc it the manual operation works easy and "free". But this is often short-lived. Is there another way to clean the disc to have to keep for sticking over time.
Excellent explanation. Concise, clear, and exactly what I needed to fix the door! My wife thinks I'm amazing...but it's really just you man.
Wow! your video on this power sliding door fix was the best ever. For about a year I have been looking at videos every so often to "do it myself". I am a 62 year old woman on my own. SO once I found your video I went out and bought a butt thingamajig and some electrical wire. I put a patio chair next to my passenger side door and after refreshing my memory by watching your video a few times I just jumped in and fixed it! One wire was severed. I tried the but clamp first but like you mentioned, it prevented the door from closing - so I was prepared because you addressed this. So I took it off and just wound the wires around each other and wrapped the tape around as tight as I could. I used to have a sauldering gun - but no more. So viola! It works. THANK YOU. Oh, also once I touched the 2 wire ends together I heard the slight sound of a beeping so I knew right away it was going to work.
Thanks so much! I was so annoyed when my door stopped working, I was expecting a very expensive trip to the dealer. Watch the video, 10 minutes later I had the problem fixed. Awesome :)
I wish I had found this a year ago... I can't wait fto fix this problem. It's a constant pain in the butt. I hope it fixes the lock issue on the other door as well...
great video foxboss9!!! i fixed both of my doors on my 2005 GC following your instructions. i owe you at least a six pack of beer!
danny in aurora
owner of the screen guys
Danny Abalos 👍☺️
THANK U! I saw this video a year or two ago and never got around to it. 5 kids and a heavy manual sliding door has been so hard for my kids to close and open. Sure enough when I opened those caps there were broken wires on both sides. My hubby thought I was crazy for trying to fix it myself but it was SO EASY! My life just got a million times easier. Now how to figure out why my floors in the front are getting soaked after the rain.
+Peter rau thanks for watching
nice. I was going to ask you why you didnt use a splice, but you explained it at the end.
Honestly I watched your video after looking at another persons video THANK YOU! You were very upbeat and that kept me interested in the video and helps me!!! Thank you again!
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You are awesome! I just watched your video and fixed the door to the van. My wife couldn’t believe it. Thank you.
Praying this works.78 yr old lady got locked in back of our van when back doors locked. Had to help her crawl to front passenger side. 100° when happened.
Awesome! Thank you, I will fix mine this weekend!!! Now, on to the locks...
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The locks are the actuator usually
thanks great video help a lot thanks gracias muy buen video
Thank you, helps so much!
Thanks, I fixed my van in 10 minutes. It was broken in the same spot as yours.
great video.
I would also lubricate the latches and moving parts as long as its opened up, keep it working smoothly.
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Amazing video mine makes all the sounds like it wants to open but it doesn’t but if you pull the handle while hitting the button or fab it will open by itself I replaced the actuator thinking that would be it so maybe it’s one of those other wires
thanks for the good info , watching this door open and suddenly stop was just like watching mine , i think you helped me fix my problem , lets go find out !
Fingers crossed..
Thank you for this video.
Very easy to follow.
Thankyou once again just fixed mine...it looked like it had been fixed before very poorly, so I found a couple of wires that were torn in different places...rewired them patched them taped tightly and it's good to go...😊
Thanks man, very helpful :^)
You are welcome!! thanks for the comment!
I will tell mechanic to do the same, but not sure if my problem is the same, when my slidiing door is locked, it doesn't open, when it's unlocked, it opens.
Regards to your step-mother and a great video I can use on my 2001 Caravan. That's again from The Wandering Israelite on You Tube
It's a nice video, but that type of repair fails very rapidly on these doors. To make a fix that lasts the whole segment of wire that flexes must to be replaced.
The problem is the cable design forces it to flex from straight through a 1 1/4 inch radius U bend and back to straight down the whole length of the wire every time the door opens and closes. A rigid soldered repair with stiff heat shrink tubing transfers the curl not happening at the repair into a much sharp bend at each end of the heat shrink.
Oliver Street I agree, half those making this repair are just wanting it to work for another couple years. In my case that repair lasted four years. And, I advised my parents that they buy the wiring harness that's needed to replace all that. And, like most they said it wasn't worth it. So basically the repairs for the type of people that just want to get by for very little money. And honestly those vans in the Northeast are nothing but Swiss cheese by time the repair fails again.👍😁
Thank you! your explanation and english are so clear, than i speak another languaje and understand all perfeclty, i will try this, jus looking for how to test the cable and voltages but i will do this first, feliz año 2021.
I repaired our door wires about 4 times in this way but the connections just keep breaking. Heat shrinking, electrical tape, still breaks after a few months.
I would like to share a suggestion on fixing sliding door that won't work, First thing before going to the most common thing which is to go to the wires for inspection, try this first, Open your sliding door and spray some cleaner inside the lock mechanism give it a healthy dose wait a while then try your door, if your door then works and it will for a short time, then you should take the locking part at the rear of the door out, you'll see the three torx head screws for removal, you'll have to take the inside moldings and black covering to get to the inside door stuff then pull the lock mechanism out and give it a good cleaning this worked for my 2003 Town and Country , I previously did all the wire stuff didn't find anything wrong, then pulled the motor from the good side and checked bad side motor but motor was good I went through a lot, This simple thing made my door work repeatedly so i could finally put everything back together, also I did remove the rear seats since i didn't have the stow & go in my 2003 T&C, I wish it was just a wire, much less a hassle! Hope this helps! As always God Bless and keep the tires on the road!
How about sliding doors on 2001-2007 that fail when cold, but work when the door is body is warm?
Hi, cery informative video,
I have toyota estima 2007, mine is just the door handle, with the key it does the same like yours and locks back, but when i pull and hold the handle it does work. Which clearly shows theres no wiring or electric problem.
Normally to open or close the door just pull the handle n release it does the work. But here i have to pull n hold untill it opens a little and all normal. Same with closing, pull and hold.
Any ideas?
A fix like that will be temorary until you replace all of the wire that is in the area where it flex's. So if you make a repair inside the chain-like conduit, it stiffens the wire in the area where it will be required to flex near 180 degrees, and it will surely break again. replace the wire with the same gauge well outside of the conduit range will ensure that wire lives another lifetime. Great video though! You were clear and concise. Well done!
My switches on the side of the doors don't operate, but the others do. I tried jumping them to no avail. Not sure if the 2 wires to each switch is positive or negative? One switch went out 6 months before the other. I dont know if they have a separate fuse from the front switches or if they share commonality through the snake at the bottom door track. If the ladder than surely they could not have broken there. Dunno really. Any ideas, also if I can test the switch by jumping positive to it or our they a ground switch. Thanks. Edit, so I just figured out at least about the switch is one ground in one out. Apparently I got ground to it, but out the ground is broken somewhere. Probably in the door track snake that follows the door as it slides. Cool
thanks a lot for this vídeo!,thanks form sharing.Solved in 20 min after spending time and money in a repair shop. Thanks from Spain
Tony Simbiox You are Welcome! Glad it helped 😊👍
Hello what color was the wire that broke,i'm trying to go directly to that wire to check,thanks.
Having problems with the passenger side sliding door, there is a solid cable right above the cables you're working on. Its missing on my passenger side, it looks like that is what pulls it closed. How to replace that and even what is it called? I am by no means a car guru hopefully you can help me out on this
If a wire is messed up like this, couldjit also effect the window? Our window will not stay up and can not go up or down. When the door stopped working so did the window. Theres about a 1/2 inch gap in top of window.
3:16 I have a question. I am working on a wheel chair van my mom just bought and the sliding door did not work. I see in the picture at this time a white end and a cable coming out of the drive motor. Is this what turns the wheel to open and close the door? as the cable seems to be missing on this 2007 Town and Country.
Can someone tell me how to fix a problem where the passenger door on the driver's side where the locking mechanism is not syncing up to close the door fully
Wow thankyou so much my door same side is doing the same thing lately... ill have to check mine out soon when i have time...but thankyou again... 😊
Thanks a lot for posting this repair. I had the same problem with my 2007 Chrysler T&C and followed the procedure and worked like a charm, I actually found a wire that was broken in 3 different points, I guess only one of them was bad enough to loose connectivity when the cable harness bent at that specific point. That might also explain why mine opened a little bit more than the one Foxboss9 shows in the video.
Awesome, you're welcome.
You are a champion my friend. Thanks for posting the clip
+123nlusky 😃
Señor muchas gracias really good explained,let me try my van door.God bless you.
thank you for posting this video! I just repaired mine. I found a broken wire and never would have had the b*lls to unravel the wire protector w/o this video. I thought that it was a chain that was on a track! Anyway, I used a butt splice connector and electrical tape. if it fails again i'll sodder it.. I see no reason to get a new harness as long as this works...
Glad it worked!!
Thank you!!! I'll have to have hubby do this on my van. This is a great, clear, video
You're welcome. Tell your husband sorry. :-)
Holy easy as hell batman, that was easy, thanks for the video, you were 100% right
an interesting video i wish i had a bit more information. my door has no power what so ever lol. window doesnt work locks arent powered it did close once of its own accord still not sure how it did.. but it wont even move to open or close like in your video, but a thumbs up for a good video and i thank you for it!
Tks
Thank you for the excellent video and easy to see, in focus viewing of the procedure!! Honestly after hearing the comments about this repair, I'm thinking replacing the wire with a more flexible wire might be a longer lasting solution, just splice it at the ends where there is no bending.
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Thanks so much for this ! I'm having the exact same problem .
you are welcome!!
If this is all that is wrong with our sliding doors after all of these years I'm going to kick myself!
Katie Golding Mecham 👍😁
Excellent video sir
Very helpful, Thanks!
Glad it helped!
Just do it. You tell us what we have to do and then you tell us it's easy to do. just do it
Mine doesn't close properly and I don't have the key fob.
My wife and I have a 2014 Town & Country that is having door problems. The door is on the track and slides as it should. However, pulling on the handle to activate it to open does not work. Clicking the key fob does nothing as well. On the interior pressing the button on the overhead console will close and open it however. Ideas?
GeekdOut sorry, not sure. About that..
thank you very much and my grand baby thanks you too now she have a new toy dont worry i watch her we both say yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
GREAT DISPLAY, GOING IN TO FIX MY DOOR NOW...
Good Luck!!
Thanks as I’m having the same intermittent problems with both of my doors
Finally a "mechanic's" video with substance and clarity. Nice to watch a video without all the shaking and random out of scene shots. Thanks. Need howto remove front swing doors interior panels so can fix untracked power windows.
How about it won’t unlock is in the door to any wires please let me know
Unfortunately, I followed all of your steps and I couldn't find any obvious breaks like the one in the video. Any ideas on how to deal with that?
I am sorry, I do not have an answer for you on that one.. I found the break on this one and then heard from a Chrysler mechanic that a lot of the vans had the same problem.. Sounds as if you got something else going on...Good Luck!!
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Thanx man got mines working
Great news!
Thank you, have this issue with my van. Seen so many videos but none come close to yours. Thank you, you showed and explained it so good. Haven’t had a chance to see if that is what is wrong with my doors.
Glen Seeney 😁👍
Great video, thanks for posting!!! Saved to my Caravan repair videos playlist!
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Well ty for the video now I have a idea what it involves.
Should i disconnect the battery to do this?
Awesome!!! Thank you very much... I have been waching so many videos on TH-cam with NO help AT ALL... Yours was perfect and easy to have my side door back on... Thanks again !!!
Great video! I just encountered this exact problem with my '07 Grand Caravan. Your explanation was perfect. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thanks! Excellent video!
I did this about 18 months ago and the door quit in 15 months. Is there some flexible, woven, flat wire that could be spliced into the bend to be the flexible part?
I don't want to keep doing this repeatedly.
Buy the complete replacement harness from Chrysler...
OMG! Same van, same break in the wire in the same spot. 'm all in with MOPAR, but without fellas like you I'd be broke!
Anyway, thank you so much!
Cheers
Could it also be drivers door master acuator?
Someone completely cut all of the wires and removed the track from our 2006 caravan. I think I'm going to to have a blast fixing this hack job.
Thanks for you video!
Hi! In my case the doors of my Town & Country 2015 open with the remote control but not with the door handle or with the push button. How can I do? Tks
Sorry, not sure about that problem...
hi foxboss,
i have followed the steps on this video for my 2006 Chrysler grand voyager and saw two problems on the wire and fixed it. the problem is that now the door doesn't get any electricity at all and I have no idea why. I did exactly as shown in this video. do you have any idea what I can look at?
thank you for this video...
chaim junger sorry I've never had that problem. You may want to check for fuses that are specific for those doors. Could be that there's a fusible link inline also that could have burned out. But those are just guesses I really never troubleshot anything like that
you are sure fast as hell. I live in austria and repairs are very expensive here. as you are more experienced than I am I was hoping you would have a clue. there is no more electricity on the door. the power latch also doesn't respond anymore.
chaim junger the www is a Wonderful World isn't it? LOL. Honestly the hardest thing for any mechanic to troubleshoot is electrical. And that's having the vehicle in front of them. It's really difficult to do without seeing and having hands on. You're basically going to have to trace the power going to the door and find out where it has stopped. Without high-dollar electromagnetic tracing tools, it's basically you tearing apart your interior and following the wires back to the source of power. That's why I said the easiest thing probably to do would be just to check to see if there were specific fuses that control each individual door. Or definitely some sort of a relay. Or an inline fusible link. Because when those wires are shorting out there's a chance that it could cause any of those three things that I just mentioned to overheat and fail. Again really not sure. Good luck with it. its not a job that I wood like to do.
thank you man. appreciate the advice.
Great instructions and tips! Found the problem just as described and whole repair was done in 20 minutes. After 1 1/2 years of shutting door manually, finally was inspired to do something about it and got it done easily with your help. Thanks
You have the motor malfunction in yours I can't even unlock the door it won't release I hit the button and nothing happens it unlocks the driver's door but it won't unlock the sliding door
Sorry, Not sure, as I have never had to diagnose that fault on this MiniVan