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    Replace antenna mast or entire assembly?

    While driving around the other day, I turned on the stereo and my antenna mast got pushed out of its assembly and was flopping around by its toothed nylon lead. I see BMW replacement masts are available, but when I opened up the assembly I found no leftover broken-off nylon lead inside. That leaves me thinking - would replacing the wand assembly actually fix it? Seems like there must be something else wrong, and the replacement might get pushed all the way out too.

    When I turn on the stereo with the antenna (sans mast) in place, I hear its motor run for about 8 seconds, then stop. When I turn the stereo off, I hear it run again for 8 sec. It seems longer than before: it used to take maybe 5 sec to put the antenna up or down.

    The overall power antenna assembly has the original BMW part sticker on it, and the Hirschmann logo embossed in its plastic cover.
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