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Old Jan 22, 2017 | 08:07 AM
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DIY Rear Star Emblem Removal on Coupe

Hi All,

I spent hours trying to find a DIY on how to remove the rear badge/ backup camera cover on specifically the coupe, without luck. I eventually figured it out on my own and wanted to share this DIY for others knowledge.

Step 1: open rear backup camera by using the settings menu in command. You need to leave the car ignition on for the emblem to stay open.

step 2: while looking from either side profile of the open camera look behind and you will see where the emblem meets the camera housing, there are two "C" shaped indentations. You simply depress because the indentations (one on one side and one on the other) and that releases the emblem so you can slide it up and off the camera housing.

step 3: now you are left with a circular disc with the Chrome 3 pointed star attached to it. If you want to remove the chrome star there are two things you have to do. 1. you have to remove the three white plastic stoppers from behind the disc. There are three prongs which hold the star in. 2. Mercedes also put thin double sided tape around the outside of the star which can be difficult to remove. I started first by removing the three plastic stoppers and pushed the star partially up in the center. I then used a razor blade to slowly slide across the perimeter of three pointed star and the housing it sits in to cut the double sided tape all the way around. After that it will come free.

Note: you do need to use quite a bit of force to squeeze them in. I used a trim removal tool to push on the release indentations.

Pictures to follow...

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Old Jan 22, 2017 | 08:13 AM
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Old Jan 22, 2017 | 09:28 AM
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This is a great help thank you. Are you painting it ?
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Old Jan 22, 2017 | 03:17 PM
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I'm going to be carbon fiber skinning it.
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Old Jan 22, 2017 | 05:41 PM
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Are you going to try your hand at the lettering ?
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Old Jan 25, 2017 | 12:52 PM
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Very informative. I wanted to paint mine black as well
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Old Jul 26, 2018 | 01:46 PM
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Thanks for this.

I have a GLC63s that I'm trying to do. Your pictures look similar, but not sure it's the same. Do you have a pic of the mechanism with the emblem attached & the camera open?
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Old Apr 19, 2019 | 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by W205C43AMGCoupe
I'm going to be carbon fiber skinning it.
photo ?
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Old Apr 2, 2020 | 04:40 PM
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Thanks! Have my new black star and I have been looking all over for this!
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Old Apr 2, 2020 | 04:47 PM
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re-badging project
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Old Apr 3, 2020 | 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Meade

re-badging project

Ordered this from Mercedes?
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Old Apr 3, 2020 | 12:56 PM
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There are tons of sites that sell these and the price varies a lot. I went with us85 because they looked legit and looks like Merc OEM packaging. Still need to do the star, but so far pretty happy.

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Old Apr 3, 2020 | 01:03 PM
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There are tons of sites that sell these and the price varies a lot. I went with us85 because they looked legit and looks like Merc OEM packaging. Still need to do the star, but so far pretty happy.

can you give the link?
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Old Apr 3, 2020 | 02:15 PM
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I am not positive these are the exact links I ordered from but they should get you close.

https://www.us85.com/products/merced...n-amg-modified
https://www.us85.com/products/luggag...1b8ef8fd&_ss=r
https://www.us85.com/products/biturb...74bfee66&_ss=r

FYI I have a channel I have some videos on and I will be adding one for the rebadging...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcm...kGwi8kU1rnuHcQ
or here:
http://www.glc43amg.com

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Old Apr 5, 2020 | 01:09 PM
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@W205C43AMGCoupe how do those white stoppers come out?
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Old May 22, 2020 | 03:25 PM
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OMG, I can't remove the f**** star.

Could you do a video removing it??

Thanks for all.
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Old Sep 9, 2020 | 10:52 PM
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did anyone figure out how to remove this thing? I have picture of the camera open but I don't know what to press to release it ...


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Old Sep 11, 2020 | 02:52 PM
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Any luck on this. I m in the same boat.
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Old Sep 12, 2020 | 02:03 AM
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I watched this before taking it off. This is on the S class but it was the same on my coupe.
About 30 seconds into the video is where to watch. I hope this helps



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Old Jan 11, 2023 | 03:30 PM
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Thumbs up Awesome! Thanks for posting this!

You sir are a gentleman for posting this! I recently bought a 2018 C43 and my black badge kit just showed up and I was hoping for something on removing the trunk emblem on coupes with the rear camera under it. Seems pretty straight forward.
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