Has anybody else had probems with the antenna base cracking? My first one cracked-I thought I overtightened my shorty antenna. My dealer put in a new one, and I just noticed that it was cracked also. This time, I used special plastic crazy glue, then went over the entire base with epoxy. Next, I will sand it and paint it.

 

not me

 

Come ooonnn!!! Do we need more problems??? Not here. Wait, let me go check it out, mannn.

 

I've put 4 or 5 antenna's on my HHR (when trying samples for our shorty).

Never a problem - no cracks.

 

No problems here. You might be tightening a little too much. Don't worry, if someone steals it, Mike has enought to go round.

 

My base is ugly but not cracked.

 

Dont know what I'm doing wrong? The second time around, I was careful not to overtighten-even used locktite so I would not use too much force. The dealer asked if I drove through a car wash (certainly not) or if I used a truck brush (guilty). Anyhow, with the epoxy shell, it should be strong.

I wish Chevy had used a window antenna in the HHR like they seem to have done for all the rest of their cars and trucks.

 

Watch out for the loctite. When we were designing a new product we found that loctite attacked a lot of plastics (caused crazing in the plastic that eventually resulted in failure).

When there is plastic nearby, we use a product called Vibra-tite that doesn't attack most plastics.

Steve

 

no problems here either.

 

I remove antenna by fingers only. I hand tighten. No pliers, grips or...
It's made to be removed easily for the abomna... er... abumnable....er... abomnnabel.... er.... bad car washes.