Can anyone help or have you experienced a similar problem?

I parked my 3 months old petrol Citroen Berlingo Multispace in a car park and removed the ignition key, whereupon the wipers came on and wouldn’t stop
( they were in the switched off position and the ignition key was removed ) I tried switching them on and off, to no avail. They continued to go back and forwards with a mind of their own. I jumped out of the car and noticed that my headlights were also on ( yet they too were in the switched off position ).

I got back in the car and tried to start it, but it wouldn’t start.

I got out of the car again and tried to lock it, but the car wouldn’t lock.

In desperation I had to temporarily abandon my car in this car park in a dodgy park of town …. unlocked ….with its wipers going and headlights on … while I walked about 200 yards to a nearby business to get the local Citroen dealer’s phone number.

When I got back to my car about 10 minutes later …. The wipers had stopped scraping my dry windows, the headlights were now off . When I got in the car it started straight away.

I took it straight to my local Citroen dealer who carried out a diagnostic check, but found NOTHING wrong with it !!!

George, January 2011

Sorry I cannot help but I have exactly the same symptoms with my Peugeot 207. I took it to a Peugeot garage and they couldn't find the fault. It all started with back screen wiper going off on its own. And one snowy night as I was leaving work, it all happened like you. Since that, it's still going wrong at times but never know when. The worse was the other day when I drove it on the motorway and all the electric stopped. Strangely, the car was still running and the wipers were going mad and the car locked itself. I just hope like you that someone knows about that fault and knows a way to fix it. The only way I have managed to temporaly fix the problem is by tapping on the rear window near the wiper and near the electrical cables. I also think the cold and very wet weather affects it as it seems to happen then.
Good luck!

Estelle, January 2011

if they had tested it properly ,the diagnostic test should have shown fault codes within the system.

they must have reset them before reading them.

not much you can do until it happens again

cjb, January 2011