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<blockquote data-quote="GTNator" data-source="post: 3566" data-attributes="member: 1788">Hi, I have this exact problem on my 2014 Sequoia.&nbsp; Both rear door door handles stick and its actually quite dangerous.&nbsp; My wife will close the door after loading the kids and then start backing up only to find that the doors start to swing open.&nbsp; I took my Sequoia to the dealer today and told them that this must be a manufacturer's defect.&nbsp; They told me nand that the handle must have dirt inside the mechanism because I need to wash the car more often.&nbsp; This sounded crazy to me, its not like this is the first car I've owned in my 30 years of driving!&nbsp; The truck is not unusually dirty or anything, and I wash the truck about once a month but even so, a door handle should not ever stick like this. So anyway they opened the door handle and determined that the inside mechanism was &quot;just dirty&quot; and the fix was to clean it and charge me $135 for one hour labor.&nbsp; Then I found this website and the above TSB.&nbsp; I called the dealer and told them but they say the root cause of the door handle sticking is because the inside mechanism got dirty and that is that.&nbsp; My response to them is that they need to think deeper, that maybe the REASON the inside of the door handle mechanism got dirty is because of a defect.Also, I'm thinking if all they did is clean the inside of the door handle mechanism but NOT address the real root cause of the problem, then I'm destined to have the same issue again soon.I'm thinking of contacting Toyota and calling BS on this dealer.&nbsp; What do you think?&nbsp; Any help would be so greatly appreciated!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GTNator, post: 3566, member: 1788"] Hi, I have this exact problem on my 2014 Sequoia. Both rear door door handles stick and its actually quite dangerous. My wife will close the door after loading the kids and then start backing up only to find that the doors start to swing open. I took my Sequoia to the dealer today and told them that this must be a manufacturer's defect. They told me nand that the handle must have dirt inside the mechanism because I need to wash the car more often. This sounded crazy to me, its not like this is the first car I've owned in my 30 years of driving! The truck is not unusually dirty or anything, and I wash the truck about once a month but even so, a door handle should not ever stick like this. So anyway they opened the door handle and determined that the inside mechanism was "just dirty" and the fix was to clean it and charge me $135 for one hour labor. Then I found this website and the above TSB. I called the dealer and told them but they say the root cause of the door handle sticking is because the inside mechanism got dirty and that is that. My response to them is that they need to think deeper, that maybe the REASON the inside of the door handle mechanism got dirty is because of a defect. Also, I'm thinking if all they did is clean the inside of the door handle mechanism but NOT address the real root cause of the problem, then I'm destined to have the same issue again soon. I'm thinking of contacting Toyota and calling BS on this dealer. What do you think? Any help would be so greatly appreciated!! [/QUOTE]

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