Fitted Perfectly, sprayed the extension bar matt Black, think it looks great. No issues with over stressing the antenna base. Only other thing I had to do was, put a small extra bend in the bottom of the bracket below the mounting hole.
Tried both ways and reception was great, but connected the red power lead as well to job the job properly.
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Dead simple and pleased with the results.