rear doors won’t unlock

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When I unlock the doors with my key fob or the unlock switch on the driver door the rear doors never unlock tried hitting the buttons a few times locking & unlocking etc. nothing works you have to manually unlock them, the hatch still unlocks and the rear windows go down from the front and each door, any ideas what it could be? Is there any setting in the DIC that might cause this?


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no setting I know of other than if the child lock is engaged then they would not open from the inside, to start I would open a rear door and put my ear to it and hit the remote button and listen to hear if the lock is trying to lock/unlock if no then maybe check for any blown fuse if there is no associated fuse then pull the door panel and proceed to inspect if the lock is trying to move you may get away with lubing everything up the original white lithium type grease can get pretty thin on these older trucks and the sliders inside just wont move nicely like they used too.
I could be mistaken about any setting I would look over the owners manual also but I don't think there is any setting like that at all
 
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no setting I know of other than if the child lock is engaged then they would not open from the inside, to start I would open a rear door and put my ear to it and hit the remote button and listen to hear if the lock is trying to lock/unlock if no then maybe check for any blown fuse if there is no associated fuse then pull the door panel and proceed to inspect if the lock is trying to move you may get away with lubing everything up the original white lithium type grease can get pretty thin on these older trucks and the sliders inside just wont move nicely like they used too.
I could be mistaken about any setting I would look over the owners manual also but I don't think there is any setting like that at all

Thanks for the tips I’ll give that a go when it’s a little warmer out


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If I remember correctly from back in my early car alarm installer days, the locks were wierd on the 03+ GM trucks. 02 and older power locks were actually controlled by switches and relays. But in 03 (and 02 for the Trailblazer) they switched EVERYTHING over to the new databus computer controlled system. The computer controlled the power locks, windows, pretty much everything. You can connect a Tech 2 and roll each window up or down, test each speaker, and lock and unlock the doors (plus a shitload of other things).
But this was a nightmare for alarm installers to integrate keyless entry into the power locks. You had to actually run wires into EACH door and tie into each lock actuator with two relays. But I remember reading on one of the installer forums I was on, and someone found a wire under the dash that triggered ONLY the back doors. Each front door has a "door module" (or window switch as most people call it) that communicated with the BCM and that module actually locked and unlocked the door. But the rear doors were connected to something up under the dash. I wish I had more information about this, but not long after that several companies released the bypass modules that actually locked and unlocked the doors by communication with the BCM just like factory. So nobody did the relay method after that, everyone just used a bypass module.
So the point of all my rambling is to basically tell you that the front and rear doors are controlled by separate modules. All I remember is the connection for the rear doors was up under the driver's side dash near the kick panel area. It's in that relay block that sits in that corner. If you have not messed with any of your window switches lately, I'd investigate that area.
Another possibility, if you replaced the power window switches with other ones not programmed to your truck, THAT could be the issue as well.
 
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If I remember correctly from back in my early car alarm installer days, the locks were wierd on the 03+ GM trucks. 02 and older power locks were actually controlled by switches and relays. But in 03 (and 02 for the Trailblazer) they switched EVERYTHING over to the new databus computer controlled system. The computer controlled the power locks, windows, pretty much everything. You can connect a Tech 2 and roll each window up or down, test each speaker, and lock and unlock the doors (plus a shitload of other things).
But this was a nightmare for alarm installers to integrate keyless entry into the power locks. You had to actually run wires into EACH door and tie into each lock actuator with two relays. But I remember reading on one of the installer forums I was on, and someone found a wire under the dash that triggered ONLY the back doors. Each front door has a "door module" (or window switch as most people call it) that communicated with the BCM and that module actually locked and unlocked the door. But the rear doors were connected to something up under the dash. I wish I had more information about this, but not long after that several companies released the bypass modules that actually locked and unlocked the doors by communication with the BCM just like factory. So nobody did the relay method after that, everyone just used a bypass module.
So the point of all my rambling is to basically tell you that the front and rear doors are controlled by separate modules. All I remember is the connection for the rear doors was up under the driver's side dash near the kick panel area. It's in that relay block that sits in that corner. If you have not messed with any of your window switches lately, I'd investigate that area.
Another possibility, if you replaced the power window switches with other ones not programmed to your truck, THAT could be the issue as well.

Thanks, it’s actually been like this for awhile it used to be you had to unlock them a few times for all the doors to lock now it doesn’t do that anymore, all the window switches are the originals it had a remote start at one point maybe when that was installed something was doing it’s on my list of things to get done


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it's the black relays in the driver's side fuse panel labeled LCK and UNLCK
 

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