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1999 Subaru legacy L antenna ghost

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PplMy 1999 Legacy L 30th ann. has a weird problem that when the car is off, the antenna will extend and retract at seemingly random intervals. I have installed a Mcintosh stereo receiver, amp, and rear sub from a donor Subaru, and all the connectors match perfectly from the harness to stereo, stereo to amp, and amp to speakers. 

 

There was a weird problem that the speakers would play static while the car was off, draining the battery, but installing a relay on the pin 5 wire in the DIN cable fixed that.

 

I have replaced the entire antenna assembly and it still happens.

 

Online, there are suggestions to add a switch to the antenna rectractor to manually control it but I would prefer to have everything work as originally intended without extra hardware.

Get the circuit schematic out.  Load - antenna motor, Ground and Power.

Was it happening before you changed the stereo?  The connectors may be the same, but....

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