Hi All, I'm brand new to this forum and brand new to Subaru!  We love our new Forester (premium with power lift gate, Jasper Green)

But one annoying thing: every time we start the car, the radio comes on.  No matter how we set things up before turning the car off.  The dealership says that's just the way it is, just turn the volume all the way down.

Anybody know anything about this?

Thanks so much!

Welcome to modern cars (and appliances and just about every other consumer product). Large quantities of poorly designed electronics, built by the lowest bidder, programmed in India, and released while they are still in beta because if it's a big enough safety issue they can just issue an "update". But if it's not a big issue - the engineers and programmers can't be troubled to go back and work on last years product - they are already being pushed to get the next model year out of Alpha so they can release that one in Beta as well. 

GD

I found the following on a forester forum.

Set the following as the first radio station preset button. If you are playing the radio, select the first preset button before turning the engine off. When you restart, the radio will come on but it will be silent.

Channel 0 on XM, doesn't require having the subscription.

Set Sirius XM channel 0 as your default radio favorite and leave it set there (which is a silent channel).

 

that is just plain stupid

Thanks all!