With Or Without?

[Pompey Gaz]

I love the new tinted windows but should i de-badge the back of the motor?

I think it would look good but am a bit unsure

will photoshop

or

if i de Badge how is the best way to do it?

[Alberto Michelatti]

I advice to remove all badges, so your car will look more "clean" from an aesthetic point of view.

To remove all badges, heat every Badge with an hairdryer until the metal surface is lukewarm, then remove gently the plastic Badge, if necessary using dental floss also. Eventual glue residues can be easily removed with cotton-wool bathed with oil painting white spirit. Never and never use alcohol, because it could irreversibly harm the paint! Obviously it is better if first to start the badges removing operation you check from the inside of the rear door if badges are settled with two or more pins, and if the answer is yes, it is obviously better to leave all the badges where they are.

Alberto.

[Pompey Gaz]

cheers alberto :D

[Pompey Gaz]

got them off, used floss and my hands are minty fresh, need to remove glue now

[Pompey Gaz]

what do you think of putting the corolla Badge above/below the toyota Badge in the middle?

[Alberto Michelatti]

what do you think of putting the corolla badge above/below the toyota badge in the middle?

I don't like the idea of putting the Badge "Corolla"in the centre of the rear door because no car ever used this solution... it is a bit inappropriate in my opinion...

Instead I advice to leave the back of your Corolla without any badges except for the holy and untouchable Toyota elliptic logo: no badges for the winner!

Alberto.

[Pompey Gaz]

brilliant alberto, i just thought it would be a bit different, but without it looks sweet

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

Hey Gaz, it will look much better de-badged . We always do it to our cars and it's not because we buy a 1litre hoping people think it's a 1.8!

There is no easy way to get the badges off, just patience and elbow grease, but floss is a definite winner!

Just finished de-badging our new aquisition... A V40 CDi top of the range with all extras. It looks the DBs without the badging

[Pompey Gaz]

i used the rain to help get the glue off, it does look good without, only the toyota emblem in the middle, now should I eBay the badges?

[Alberto Michelatti]

i used the rain to help get the glue off, it does look good without, only the toyota emblem in the middle, now should I eBay the badges?

Sincerely, if I were in you, I would keep all the badges at home, because the few money that you hypotetically could earn selling those items on eBay don't justify at all the possible annoyances of discussing with the eventual next owner of your car of the fact that you removed all the badges, instead he like the original appearance of the car and so he has to buy those expensive original items at the local Toyota dealer. If you keep all the badges at home, instead, if you understand that the eventual next owner of your car is particularly scrupulous, with the photos of the back of your car that you have yet, in no time you can reapply all the badges perfectly in the original positions, simply using some stripes of biadhesive tape.

Alberto.

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

i used the rain to help get the glue off, it does look good without, only the toyota emblem in the middle, now should I eBay the badges?

You mean to say you got them off without bending and damaging them??? :o

[Pompey Gaz]

yeah using dental floss like cheese wire lol

[1bloke1dog1mr2]

Sell them. You won't get that much but if you never want them back on it's better than them sitting in a drawer!

[Pompey Gaz]

i've given them to a lass lol

[JappyBeast]

A lass?

Cars look way better De-Badged, one of the first mods I did to the MR2.

[Pompey Gaz]

the lass in my personal picture :D she's cracking, lives other end of country though :(

[Yaris SR Kid]

debadge!

[Pompey Gaz]

it was done in time for today lol