Quote Originally Posted by rowhard View Post
Thats just it, what ground wire would they have had to break the connection on. Just remove the taillight housing and headlight housings and bag the rear bulbs. I had removed the amp, sub and face plate before taking it in. Is there a ground in the antenna?
If that's all that was necessary when dealing with the stock wiring harnesses for lights, etc, what about the wiring for the amp and sub you removed? Was the wiring for it also bagged to prevent it from getting hit with overspray? If not, and your amps' power and speaker connectors aren't making as good a connection as they were before, the problem could be there. (And that bring's up another possibility. Where/how is your amp grounded?)

The antenna is shielded to ground to prevent radio interference, but it's not neccesarily a ground in the same sense as a system power ground. I realize it's not the easiest thing to do, but one way to eliminate the antenna wire as the source of the problem without having to start taking interior panels off in the cargo area would be to disconnect the antenna from the back of the head unit and just play a cd (or whatever) to see if the problem goes away. I really doubt that your antenna is the problem though.