The passenger side power sliding door on my 2003 Silhouette binds up when opening and shuts automatically before fully opens. I have disabled the power control to the door to open manuallly. It still is very difficult to open and shut and the cable comes out of the door when opening. The coating on the cable appears to be frayed or stripped back. Is this a case of adjustment, cable replacement or something else?

Much depends on the vehicle the ramp is fixed to. There is help here for various vans.

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Your door may be binding in the guide tracks. Check when the door opens. You could try spray lithum grease if you find that the door does bind.

its binding or needs to be initialized

i had the same problem with mine, on the door there is a metal contact that gets coroded. i wire brushed the plate then it closed and opened fine.

You should be able to manually unlock the door and open it,even without the power lock working.The center roller on these vans is prone to wear,causing binding and misalignment of the electrical connectors that you see when the door is open.This may cause the locks to be disabled and the door to not open with the power button.There are three rollers on each door,but many times only the center one is worn out.The installation & alignment of the rollers is critical on this vehicle,so you should consider the dealer for this repair. good luck

are all the doors shut, if so could be a bad sensor on one of the doors.

READ YOUR MANUAL. THERE IS A SEQUENCE INVOLVING REMOVING A FUSE WHICH RESETS THE ELECTRIC DOOR OPENER. IT IS DESCRIBED IN THE MANUAL. EASY TO DO ONE YOU HAVE THE BOOK IN HAND.

Look in your owners manual there is a procedure to reset the door controls. If that dosen't work maybe the motor is burnt out, it's in the left rear access panel.

I checked on bulldogsecurity.com to get an idea of the placement of where this plug might be for the sliding doors. It says that it is a light blue wire and it says that it is in the passenger kick panel. What that may (probably) means is that when you open the door you might have to pull up the plastic trim that runs along the bottom of the door and try to find this wire. Trace it until you find the plug. I hope this helps. If not post again and I'll try to help further.

I think you have a latch issue or a latch release issue, pull the door panel and try and release the door latch, pull the latch and try to see what if anything is wrong with it, also make sure the linkage going to the latch from the release handle is hooked up or not otherwise damaged.