Chrysler Repair: wipers/interior lights malfunction: Lebaron convert., lebaron gtc, vehicle specifics

Question
QUESTION: with car running can not turn wipers off. also can not turn interior lights off with car running or not.

ANSWER: Hi James,
What is the year/model/body style of the vehicle? On the lights, those are always available to be powered up by opening any of the doors. So check which door which when you push on it from the outside causes the lights to go off. Then move the latch striker in the door frame inboard just enough to secure the door tightly enough to press on the switch nearby far enough to turn off the lights. Tell me the vehicle specifics and I'll look into the wiper situation
Roland

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QUESTION: 1995 lebaron gtc. both door switches are working

Answer
James,
If you are certain that the door ajar switches are both working (may I ask how?) then it has to be the headlamp switch (dash dimmer section) which has a detent at one end of the 'action' which grounds a wire that comes from the body computer in order to turn 'on' the interior lights. That wire is yellow/red and it exits the switch on one of two pins separated at the very end of the plug at the switch. I would check the wire side of the plug socket to be shorted to ground. The wire goes to pin 13 of the black 25-pin plug at the body computer. Also, if you measure between the two pins of the switch which are at the end (and which are attached to the yellow/red and the black/orange (ground) wire when the plug is inserted in the switch) you should find them connected only when the detent is selected. They should not be connected when you are in the continuous dimming position of the switch. So either the switch is falsely grounding the wire in all positions of the dimmer, or the wire itself is grounded on the way to the computer (or possibly the computer has gone bad if neither of the first two alternatives proves out).
On the wipers,  when they are running when you try to turn them off  are they stuck in low/high/intermittent? Again, this may either be a switch issue or a connection to the body computer issue. The body computer is located just in front of the lower front corner of the passenger side door opening on what is called the 'kick panel'.
Is there any history to these problems you might share with me? For example did they start to occur following a heavy rain storm or a car wash? The plugs on the body computer are on its top side, directly below the corner of the windshield such that water can leak down and get on the plug/socket interfaces. If that were what may have happened, then I would get some electronic circuit board cleaner in a spray can and remove the plugs from the body computer and spray both the plugs and sockets. Let the cleaner evaporate and it will take with it any residual moisture that may be shorting between the pins and causing these "gremlin"-like behaviors. Also check for dirt on the socket/pin interface area.
Roland