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How to: Remove Badges
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Write up: How to remove badges (without using a hot gun or hair dryer)
DISCLAIMER: This is just to help you manage a way to remove a badge off your car, I had experience on two cars without incident. So please do this at your own risk and I am not held responsible for your mistakes, good luck!
Tools needed:
Floss or fishing wire
Time
A nice sunny day
Pine-sol or cleaning solution
2 clean towels
**Bare with me, I do not have pictures I just know if I describe it well enough, you guys can follow with no issues (I hope :p)
Step 1: Take a look at the badge (it could be a factory badging for the model or dealership badging), see how it sticks onto your car, don't attempt to get a firm hold of the badging and rip it off, because in result you will have either a half-way broken badging or possible clear coat or paint damage. If the badging has a black rubber like double tape, then proceed. If the badging has actual tape, then proceed with more patience.
Step 2: Go into your house and look for some floss or fishing wire (floss is cheaper), take a string about half of your arm length. Wrap it around your finger as if you are about to floss your own teeth. Stay angled from the badge and place the string at the opposite side, pulling the string towards you.
Step 3: Like flossing begin pulling opposite hands while pulling the string towards you. The floss will break sometime, that's why it easier to bring the whole thing and it's cheap (versus the fishing wire, which won't break as easy).
Step 4: As you slowly come through the tape, stop and look at your progress, not all of the tape will come off easy. You will have leftovers, don't worry about it yet. Continue doing step 3 until you have come through all the way.
Step 5: The badging should come off easily, if not try a little twisting until it comes off. If you are still having issues, start back to step 3 and make sure you have gone through all the way.
Step 6: By this time, the badging should be off completely and you are left with some sticky leftovers. No worries, take one towel and put a light amount of cleaning solution (I used Pine-sol). Start rubbing the sticky stuff off, if it doesn't come off easy, used your finger nail and rub it off.
Step 7: As soon as all the leftovers are off, take the other towel and dry it off.
Congrates! You have sucessfully removed a badging off your car! :cool:
If you have any issues feel free to PM me and I will try to help as best as possible.
Write up: How to remove badges (without using a hot gun or hair dryer)
DISCLAIMER: This is just to help you manage a way to remove a badge off your car, I had experience on two cars without incident. So please do this at your own risk and I am not held responsible for your mistakes, good luck!
Tools needed:
Floss or fishing wire
Time
A nice sunny day
Pine-sol or cleaning solution
2 clean towels
**Bare with me, I do not have pictures I just know if I describe it well enough, you guys can follow with no issues (I hope :p)
Step 1: Take a look at the badge (it could be a factory badging for the model or dealership badging), see how it sticks onto your car, don't attempt to get a firm hold of the badging and rip it off, because in result you will have either a half-way broken badging or possible clear coat or paint damage. If the badging has a black rubber like double tape, then proceed. If the badging has actual tape, then proceed with more patience.
Step 2: Go into your house and look for some floss or fishing wire (floss is cheaper), take a string about half of your arm length. Wrap it around your finger as if you are about to floss your own teeth. Stay angled from the badge and place the string at the opposite side, pulling the string towards you.
Step 3: Like flossing begin pulling opposite hands while pulling the string towards you. The floss will break sometime, that's why it easier to bring the whole thing and it's cheap (versus the fishing wire, which won't break as easy).
Step 4: As you slowly come through the tape, stop and look at your progress, not all of the tape will come off easy. You will have leftovers, don't worry about it yet. Continue doing step 3 until you have come through all the way.
Step 5: The badging should come off easily, if not try a little twisting until it comes off. If you are still having issues, start back to step 3 and make sure you have gone through all the way.
Step 6: By this time, the badging should be off completely and you are left with some sticky leftovers. No worries, take one towel and put a light amount of cleaning solution (I used Pine-sol). Start rubbing the sticky stuff off, if it doesn't come off easy, used your finger nail and rub it off.
Step 7: As soon as all the leftovers are off, take the other towel and dry it off.
Congrates! You have sucessfully removed a badging off your car! :cool:
If you have any issues feel free to PM me and I will try to help as best as possible.
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