does my beemer have a ghost?

[ibizaman]

My rear wiper goes off on its own accord anyone know why ? Also there is a clicking noise that seems to be comming from the clutch area sounds like the tappets but its not as the click dissapears when I depress the clutch. Any help gratfully received

[d6dph]

Well the ticking noise is probably the clutch release bearing, mine is quite noisey at idle, depress the clucth pedal nd the noise goes

HTH

[Brianmoooore]

There's a miniature microswitch mounted inside the gearbox cover of the rear wiper motor, that controls the parking position of the blade.
I would suspect this switch or the mechanism that works it.
Other possibilities are the rear wiper contol module and the dash board switch.