Just took delivery of a '12 Durango and managed to crack the antenna base due to clearance issues in the garage, even with a stubby antenna installed.

Anyone had the pleasure of peeling back the headliner and replacing the antenna base? If so, is it a particularly difficult job?

(Looks like it will be a shark fin after all...but would prefer to get rid of cracked plastic underneath first...)

 

You dont need to replace that plastic as long as you can get a screw in that base. Just seal up any cracks in it with some rtv so if water gets under shark fin it cant get inside.
STEVE

 

ouch... welcome jperk, I would go the sharkfin route as well...relatively cheap and much better looking!!

 

Threaded post is still intact...I was able to super-glue the broken section back on the top (took a quarter-sized chunk of plastic off the top of the antenna base and cracked the back side from the fracture down to the rubber gasket at the bottom. I was able to get glue in the vertical crack, too, and kept things taped over for a couple of days to give the glue time to set up.

Looks like one can get the part for $85-100 online...which would take out any question about moisture penetration. I just don't want to get into doing a multi-hour job for something that is likely going to get covered up soon anyway. :P

Thanks for the input...