Repairing the Radio Aerial

When we bought the car, a shorter radio aerial was attached to its screw-terminal mount on the roof via electrical tape. It's a fairly common that these whip aerials get mangled by car washes or snapped off by vandals.

The previous owner was kind enough to leave the car's original aerial shaft in the back of the car and once the broken part of the terminal was unscrewed from it, it was re-usable.

I sourced the roof-mounted terminal from a scrap car and removal / re-fit involves the following:

• Remove the interior light diffuser from the fitting in the headliner by getting your fingernails behind it and flexing it forward
• Remove the bulb holder by undoing two TORX screws
• Prize the silver metal cover from the plug at centre of the underneath of the aerial mount. It's a bit fiddly but you can probably get a thin screwdriver under it where the wire enters
• Undo the 8mm nut which secures the plug to the mount
• Undo the three other 8mm nuts
• The Mount can now be removed upwards and may be stuck to the roof. You may need to get a fingernail or two under it to prize it free.

Re-fitting it pretty much the reverse...