Sprinter antenna replacement and repair
Fixing a broken Sprinter antenna The radio antenna on Sprinter vans is badly placed and flimsy. It’ll break if you drive under low branches, wash the van, or let snow build up over it. Luckily, if it snaps off at the base, there’s a fix. I had read about people breaking their Sprinter antenna off. I thought it must take some effort, but then I did the same thing when I was washing the van. I just knocked it with a soft bristle brush and it snapped straight off. The antenna/aerial is made of flexible wire, but the base is a rigid plastic. That plastic must be either really thin or really fragile, because it breaks very easily. My antenna, and others I’ve seen, seem to break off while still attached to the metal insert in the plastic base. After 2 weeks of evaluating the available vans work van shelving and compiled all the options into a spreadsheet that rated each van based on the following: Vehicle Type: Ford vs Mercedes vs Other. Size: 144 wheelbase vs 170 wheelbase v...