New Antenna

So I had this antenna that I had installed a while ago. I went through a "Touch-Less" car wash. Turns out it DOES touch your car. It totally bent the antenna over. When I reported the damage to the manager, he said it was bad marketing... "Touch-Less" means "Touches the Car LESS".

Apparently I need a "Touch-Free"... unless that means they don't charge you for your car being touched.

Regardless, we settled up with some free car washes for my other car and called it even.

I ordered a replacement antenna from BusDepot. Here's what it looked like when it arrived.


Here are the holes from the outside on the Passenger side:


The antenna comes with a lock washer and a nut on each of the screws. I didn't think that this was sufficient. I added a simple washer to the smaller screw. I took a larger washer from some seatbelt hardware and drilled the hole just large enough to get around the larger screw. The goal here was to add some strength to the antenna. It seemed flimsy.

Here's what it looked like with the washers on:


I had my daughter help install it. She held it in place from the outside while I put the washer, lock washer and the nuts on from the inside. I found it easiest to reach up from underneath. The small nut was 8mm and the larger nut was 19mm.

Here's what it looked like with the nuts on and the antenna cable hooked up:


Here's what it looked like from the outside. Wish I could have gotten the Chrome one instead of the black:


That's it. Done. The hooking up of the antenna to the radio is pretty obvious.

Casey