de-badge and re-badge

[scanesare]

Thought of it over and over and I think I'd rather remove the red GTI badges from the rear, front and sides of the car. To be honest I never really liked them on the Clubsport, VW made all that effort with the different styling, upgraded engine etc. so a couple of CS specific badges would have made much more sense, plus you don't usually get badges of a 230bhp car on a 290bhp one so I think I'd like it more incognito. My only question is, how easy or hard is it to re-attach them in the future more likely for resale purposes? Easy to get hold of the proper adhesive?

[jv]

It's a 40th Anniversary Golf GTI. As the 35th, 30th, 25th, 10th before it, it's a tweaked Golf GTI.

It celebrates GTI. It isn't 'not a GTI', the whole point is, it's a GTI.

[itavaltalainen]

Easy to remove, use dental floss, remove adhesive residue with optical instrument cleaner or degreaser spray for optics.
You won't easily be able to reattach old badge as the tape is cut and stamped to match shape of badge.


Used to work for a supplier of exactly these things, and the best way would be to buy new badges / nameplates.

[SRGTD]

Don’t the badges on the front wings and tailgate have a self adhesive backing? The badge on the front grille is clipped in and removing it will leave a non-honeycomb solid black area on the grille, which IMO would look a bit odd; as if someone has stolen the badge and the owner hasn’t bothered replacing it. There’s s picture of the grille badge removed at the link below;

https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4608

If you do remove them, I’d suggest making a template of the areas where they’re currently located (with measurements), so when you put new badges back on, you can put them in the exact same location that the originals were in.

[scanesare]

Easy to remove, use dental floss, remove adhesive residue with optical instrument cleaner or degreaser spray for optics.
You won't easily be able to reattach old badge as the tape is cut and stamped to match shape of badge.


Used to work for a supplier of exactly these things, and the best way would be to buy new badges / nameplates.

thanks for the info, would be ok to re-buy them if that was actually a deal-breaker for the next guy but i'm now thinking what SRGTD wrote below:

Don’t the badges on the front wings and tailgate have a self adhesive backing? The badge on the front grille is clipped in and removing it will leave a non-honeycomb solid black area on the grille, which IMO would look a bit odd; as if someone has stolen the badge and the owner hasn’t bothered replacing it. There’s s picture of the grille badge removed at the link below;

https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4608

If you do remove them, I’d suggest making a template of the areas where they’re currently located (with measurements), so when you put new badges back on, you can put them in the exact same location that the originals were in.

I wondered about the front badge and your comment and photo confirms it, it might make me change my mind as I agree it doesn't look nice at all. I had thought of taking measurements of the original locations but thanks for stressing it!

[scanesare]

It's a 40th Anniversary Golf GTI. As the 35th, 30th, 25th, 10th before it, it's a tweaked Golf GTI.

It celebrates GTI. It isn't 'not a GTI', the whole point is, it's a GTI.

Without wanting to de-rail the thread to a  "remove them or not" debate my view on this is that: a) the CS is much more of an upgrade in various areas over a mk7 GTI than the ED35 was to the mk6 GTI (think new front bumper, diffuser, rear spoiler, tail-pipes, rims, bucket seats, steering wheel and interior bits it's almost immediately obvious it's not a standard GTI), hence why it was also given the "Clubsport" name, and b) even the ED35 with its minimum aesthetic changes had side badges reading "35" which I find right.

[jv]

It's an enhanced, improved upon GTI. 25th had it right, had all of those changes and a nice retro GTI badge front and rear.

[hog_hedge]

I wondered about the front badge and your comment and photo confirms it, it might make me change my mind as I agree it doesn't look nice at all. I had thought of taking measurements of the original locations but thanks for stressing it!

[scanesare]

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Couldn't ask for any more details than that I think! 

[itavaltalainen]

Don’t the badges on the front wings and tailgate have a self adhesive backing?

Yes they have, but it’s cut (stamped) to exactly fit the nameplates. It’s a foam tape essentially.
Difficult to trim 3M tape exactly by craft knife.... I tried.