Mazda 5 Sliding Door Won T Open

It won t open from the outside or the inside after a recent snow ice storm.

Mazda 5 sliding door won t open.

Finally it just quit doing anything when either the key fob lock and unlock or the internal front door lock and unlock buttons where hit. I am trying to figure out how to open my wife s passenger rear sliding door on her 2007 mazda5. The problem child is the driver side sliding rear door. 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.

The outside handle literally came off in my hand. 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. For a while it was hit miss and sometimes it would lock and other times not.