Recipe for Debadging Your Car
04-26-2005, 01:23 AM
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Recipe for Debadging Your Car
Ingredients:
1 hair dryer stolen from the nearest female
1 extension cord
1 yardstick
1 old creditcard
1 bottle of goof off
1 bottle of windex or something similar
1 old rag
1 bottle of cheap beer since your car and mods use all your dough
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Step 1. Measure the location of your badges incase you ever want to put them back on! My car is leased so this is a must.
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Step 2. Clean your badges and the area around them.
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Step 3. Heat one letter/number at a time with the hair dryer for 30 seconds.
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Step 4. Use the creditcard to pry underneath the badging.
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Step 5. Laugh at the creditcard that warped because the hairdryer got it too hot. :p
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Step 6. Slowly peel off the badges one letter/number at a time. I started with the 0 in C230.
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Step 7. Laugh at how funny the badges look halfway falling off.
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Step 8. Pull the badge until it comes off.
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Step 9. Admire your new C23 KOMPRESSOR.
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Step 10. Repeat steps 2-8 until your car is debadged and you are done!
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Step 11. Put the badges in different places.
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04-26-2005, 01:32 AM
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Step 12. Don't forget the Goof Off! Clean that shiat.
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Right now I left it C23. I kinda like that but tomorrow I may take that off too.
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04-26-2005, 01:50 AM
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I just took mine off by hand. My car was built 3/05 so the adhesive may not be as crusty. I just took both my hands and used my nails to take each letter off without touching the paint. Adhesive came off without anything sticking to the paint. I didn't do this with the sport badges, because the body side moulding started to move when i was about to yank the sport badge off. Too bad - a friend already made fun of that cheesy thing! I might use the credit card or fishing line method to take the sport badges off.
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04-26-2005, 02:46 AM
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Sweet guys, but I think I have everybody beat. I had the dealership take the badges off the moment it got delivered. It went into the showroom at Downtown LA Motors debadged!
Nice ctC230K! Looks great. Will they really bother you with the debadging once your lease is up? Man, that sucks. Well, at least you're not lazy and you did the measurements
Nice ctC230K! Looks great. Will they really bother you with the debadging once your lease is up? Man, that sucks. Well, at least you're not lazy and you did the measurements
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they should not bother you on turn in. i debadged my dads 99 e-320 and when we turned it in, they could care less. i left the badge in a small ziplock back in the glove box.
cool write up though for the people who do not know how to do this. you forgot the last step though... WAX. When your done wax that beast.
cool write up though for the people who do not know how to do this. you forgot the last step though... WAX. When your done wax that beast.
04-26-2005, 03:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Burnt Toast
they should not bother you on turn in. i debadged my dads 99 e-320 and when we turned it in, they could care less. i left the badge in a small ziplock back in the glove box.
cool write up though for the people who do not know how to do this. you forgot the last step though... WAX. When your done wax that beast.
cool write up though for the people who do not know how to do this. you forgot the last step though... WAX. When your done wax that beast.
thanks for the compliments, i had fun doing it.
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guys look how swirled/spiderwebbed/scratched my paint looks, is this a serious problem or what? from 3 feet away it looks perfect but get close and it's awful.
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Originally Posted by ctC230K
guys look how swirled/spiderwebbed/scratched my paint looks, is this a serious problem or what? from 3 feet away it looks perfect but get close and it's awful.
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Originally Posted by Burnt Toast
thats normal for all paint. it just shows up the most on dark colors like black. i have only hand washed and waxed my car (always done by myself) and even i have them. no way around them.. if they get real bad you can have a professional wetsand the car. but that will cost lots of $$.
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I used <a style='text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 3px double;' href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=24&k=dental%20floss" onmouseover="window.status='dental floss'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">dental floss</a> and it did the trick as well. Looks good debaged.
CT, looks good bro
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Originally Posted by ctC230K
guys look how swirled/spiderwebbed/scratched my paint looks, is this a serious problem or what? from 3 feet away it looks perfect but get close and it's awful.
I'm not too worried about it until I get my body kit though.
what can i say, i love this car. it's perfect for me right now.
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lol i was thinking of that but c23's are quite rare these days, very hard to come by.
i can already feel the performance increase just by removing those badges!! all that extra weight gone plus making it a non existant AMG model definatly helped hp and tq.
i can already feel the performance increase just by removing those badges!! all that extra weight gone plus making it a non existant AMG model definatly helped hp and tq.
