Winter weather and sliding doors?

[P3347]

Hi:

Now that my local dealers are starting to get some 5's in stock
I'm getting prepared to go talk about the numbers ($$) with the
dealer. Not looking forward to that since I will be doing a trade-in.
Our current ride is a Saturn, a company famous for low pressure
sales transactions.

Anyway -

One thing I have been wondering about since I live in Michigan
where we do get more than our share of ice & snow storms is
do the sliding doors tend to freeze up? I keep looking at the grove
in the side panel and wonder what happens when you get ice frozen
up in that channel? What do you all say?

Thanks,
Phil

 

[antlind]

I don't think this groove/track on the Mazda5 is any more susceptible to ice block up than any other vehicle with sliding doors. I live in Calgary and we get some decent snow and I've never had a problem.
Some of the early GS/Sport models had problems with the latches freezing, but this has since been rectified.
You should be okay.
Anthony

 

[AIMWO4]

We just had some snow and ice... My door just slid back and snapped off the icicles.

 

[P3347]

Thanks for the replies so far. This will be our first vehicle with
sliding doors, and I'm glad to hear that there doesn't seem to
be a problem with the grove/channel getting frozen up.

 

[Dyx]

There was one time I feared the sliding door stuck but later I realized it's still Locked. (hand) Haven't stuck since it started to get cold (-20C plus) here. Sometimes it's a bit heavy but still opens.

 

[fam]

im on ohio\mi line. It does fine with the doors. The only issue they had were sometimes after it opened it wouldnt latch shut but they have addressed it with a recall or tsb.