I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this - any help would be gratefully received!!

Once I switch my windscreen wipers on, I can't turn them off.

At all.

The stalk itself is in perfect working order but when set back to the 'off' position they keep going.

When I turn the engine off they keep going...

When I take the key out & lock the car they keep going...

I think you get the picture!

It started a few weeks ago when, whilst the wipers were set to wipe intermittently they suddenly juddered & started wiping continuously. I reset the stalk to 'off' and they kept going thus rendering the stalk useless (unlees you want to turn on fast wipe which works fine!)

I found that the only way to switch them off was to open the bonnet and once I open the fuse box lid the wipers stop mid wipe - I don't have to touch anything inside the fusebox (although I have made sure all the fuses are seated correctly), once they're stopped I can then use the stalk to single wipe to reset the wiper position. All back to normal.

This led me to think it was the fuse so I popped to the local dealers (as Halfords don't stock them) & bought a replacement No. 30 Circuit Breaker, fitted it and crossed my fingers.

Yesterday it was raining and during a 20 minute journey the wipers seemed to be working fine - switching from intermittent to continuous wipe to off and back again perfectly, this lead me to turn to my son and say 'at least the wipers are working again...'

2 minutes later at journeys end the bonnet was up & I was removing the fusebox lid again - but this time when I try to reset the wiper position they just start up again...

I've never posted on a forum before which probably indicates how completely baffled I am by this. When I went to buy the fuse at the Ford Dealer I told the Service Reception guy & he just looked as confused as me. I've told mechanic friends and they haven't heard of this before.

Any help or advice would be welcome!

Thanks in advance.

Mark.

Hi and welcome, I had this on my car you are in the right area with the breaker but you need to strip out and clean the fuse box it's caused by corrosion on the terminals not a hard job but takes a bit of time, get some contact cleaner

Wow that was quick!!!

Many thanks Pragmatix - I'll give that a go.

I should've joined FOC sooner!

I had this in the fiesta when the fuse for the wipers blew.. strange things!

Hi any help please I came to switch of engine tonight and wipers won't go off , even with the key out and engine off. 2weeks ago the wipers paused in upright position then went fine after 2 secs.

Any help would be appreciated.