[supavan]

2005 DGC SXT. The power sliding doors will open and close using the key fob and the buttons in the overhead console.

They will not, however, work by pushing the buttons located near the doors, behind the front seats on both sides. Last week, they both worked- this week, both do not work. If it was just one of them, I would think it was just a bad switch...

I tried 2 things: removed the IOD fuse for a while, let everything reset, didn't work. Tried removing the neg battery cable for a while, same result.


Suggestions?

 

[andyg]

I recall some people accidentally push the lock button that prevents the rear buttons from working? I've never looked at the 4th gens, but there's a lock out switch for the rears located by the front switches?

 

[supavan]

I recall some people accidentally push the lock button that prevents the rear buttons from working? I've never looked at the 4th gens, but there's a lock out switch for the rears located by the front switches?

Thank you andyg, I feel like an idiot...

 

[n8ech]

Its ok to feel like an idiot, which I do more than I would like. Don't care to look like one though!

Been there, done that. Lots of folks find out this way what that darned switch is for.


Don

 

[jgbat]

Don't feel like an idiot. Here is a couple of reasons why.

My Dad drove our 03 to the beach when we had just recently purchased it. Brought it back to me after the trip and said 'Boy that is a nice van. It will fly. The button for the power door quit working. I'm sorry that happened, take it and have it fixed and bring me the bill.' I got in the van, pushed the overhead button and it worked. Found the 'on/off' button, turned it on, and the side button was working again.

Fast forward to a few years later and me working at a dealership. If I had a nickel for every time someone stopped by the dealership with this exact same issue I could by a McDouble at McDonalds. It don't happen very often, but it happens enough. You are far from the only one to do this.

 

[blupupher]

Yea, there are several posts here asking the same question. Don't feel too bad.

 

[holabr]

I also have an intermittent problem with the interior switches operating the passenger sliding doors. In my case the overhead door on/off button for the rear switches is definitely on. It seems to occur whenever the doors are locked automatically at 10 mph. If I attempt to use the B pilar switch to open the door, nothing happens. The driver's side works fine. Even if I unlock the doors first, the switch still will not activate the passenger door. The overhead console switch always seems to work. It also seems that if I open the passenger front door, the interior switches start to work again. The key fob remote always works. Any ideas? Is there a way to test the BCM? The van is a 2007 T&C.

 

[jgbat]

I also have an intermittent problem with the interior switches operating the passenger sliding doors. In my case the overhead door on/off button for the rear switches is definitely on. It seems to occur whenever the doors are locked automatically at 10 mph. If I attempt to use the B pilar switch to open the door, nothing happens. The driver's side works fine. Even if I unlock the doors first, the switch still will not activate the passenger door. The overhead console switch always seems to work. It also seems that if I open the passenger front door, the interior switches start to work again. The key fob remote always works. Any ideas? Is there a way to test the BCM? The van is a 2007 T&C.

Your 07 don't have a BCM. All that is controlled by the PCM. There may be a flash (software update) for the PCM to address this issue. If you've not had it back to the dealer in a while, a trip to have the lastest software installed in the PCM may prove very helpful.

 

[Bill P.]

I recall some people accidentally push the lock button that prevents the rear buttons from working? I've never looked at the 4th gens, but there's a lock out switch for the rears located by the front switches?

I have this same issue on a 2008 dodge grand caravan, this master lock is on but still nothing to either door, does anyone have any clues

 

[FabricGATOR]

I have this same issue on a 2008 dodge grand caravan, this master lock is on but still nothing to either door, does anyone have any clues

If you open a door manually, will it close under power?

 

[Bill P.]

Yes but only by front buttons not the ones by door, im getting nothing there, u wouldn't happen to know which relay its wired into would ya, I can't find any info electrical wise as to were those or the foot adjuster draw power from

 

[FabricGATOR]

I don't have a schematic or experience with them.

So they will open and close with your front buttons? But not the back buttons where a kid can escape...
Check the overhead console if you have one, I think there is a kid lock-out up there.

Let us know what you find and how you fix your mini. It may help someone in the same situation some day.

Cheers and Welcome Bill P.

 

[FabricGATOR]

Sorry, I just noticed that was what this post was about, the upper lock button.
I don't read the previous posts when I see a zombie thread resurrected so close to Halloween....

 

[Bill P.]

Lol your good, if any knows please let me know

 

[FranklinRibeiro]

It is 2022, and this post is still useful. It saved me a trip to the auto shop or looking for where the fuses are and checking them. Thanks!