My car's rear windows don't work. What could be wrong?

Question

I have a four-year-old Citroen Xsara Picasso. Everything seems to be OK, but a few days ago, the electric rear windows stopped working. What do you think could be wrong?
Thanks

Answer 1

Do you have the child safety locks on the rear doors? That'll lock up the windows too.

Answer 2

Do they make any kind of sound at all when you try to activate them?
Is there any movement at all when you try to activate them?
Was there any strange noise the last time you used them?

It is very unlikely that two motors went bad at the same time. There must be something common to both rear windows like a circuit breaker or fuse. Possibly a wire that supplies the voltage to them.

Sounds like you should have them checked at a garage or dealer.

Answer 3

The child safety lock could have been turned on accidentally..This is on the inside of the back door or on your control panel for the windows

Answer 4

If they only work from the front, then somebody activated the child safety switch which prevents backseat passengers from operating the windows.

Otherwise, I would go with fuse.

Answer 5

Could be frayed/shorted wires, dead motor, or even (as suggested above) a fuse. Electrical problems have to be tracked down systematically.

Answer 6

the electronic motor that pushes the window up is probalby broke

Answer 7

1)faulty window motors
2)faulty switch controle
3)bad/blown fuse (most likely, check first)

Answer 8

do they work with the controls in the rear, is it just the controls in the front that dont work or ???

Answer 9

Fuse?