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Offline spoolking

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debadging the rear.
« on: 14 October 2009, 11:39 »
Ok once again the search button came up with nothing.

How do i debadge the back of my golf? The year is 2001. Are they just stuck on with glue or pinned in?

anyone got a link to a pervious post?

Offline T_J_G

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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #1 on: 14 October 2009, 11:43 »
What badges? The 'GOLF' & 'GTI' ones are glued on. Remove with a little bit of heat then some polish.

The big VW ones leaves an indent.

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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #2 on: 14 October 2009, 12:11 »
Just use a hair dryer to get some heat into the clue and pull them off. Then as TJG said, wash and polish over it and hey presto.

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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #3 on: 14 October 2009, 15:08 »
Just use a hair dryer to get some heat into the clue and pull them off. Then as TJG said, wash and polish over it and hey presto.


Yeah thats what my friend told me, just wanted to verify it.

i replaced the VW badge with a sharan one...? well the one that fits in not around the indent.


Offline Devilz

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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #4 on: 14 October 2009, 15:41 »
yeah sharan badge will fit indent and it looks way far better than original vw massive badge

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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #5 on: 15 October 2009, 12:48 »
Just use a hair dryer to get some heat into the clue and pull them off. Then as TJG said, wash and polish over it and hey presto.


Yeah thats what my friend told me, just wanted to verify it.

i replaced the VW badge with a sharan one...? well the one that fits in not around the indent.


have you colour coded it yet  :grin: or are you leaving it standard
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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #6 on: 15 October 2009, 15:08 »
Just use a hair dryer to get some heat into the clue and pull them off. Then as TJG said, wash and polish over it and hey presto.


Yeah thats what my friend told me, just wanted to verify it.

i replaced the VW badge with a sharan one...? well the one that fits in not around the indent.


have you colour coded it yet  :grin: or are you leaving it standard


Nope :s   I was doing the work on my air box when i opened the windows and my passenger window dropped to the bottom of the door thanks VW! So i was fixing that and the garrage ordered the wrong part so i had to wait another day and the week before my badge was stolen is after i fixed the window i just slapped the badge on in a hurry cause it left like my car was falling apart   :tongue:   Will look into later once im happy with the performance. As i just posted in another thread i dont have the money for a nice set of deep dish rims or a paint job so im going to make it a sleeper for the next couple of months and just improve its performance. Want to get it on par with A WRX at least.

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Re: debadging the rear.
« Reply #7 on: 15 October 2009, 17:43 »
hope you're friendly with either a loan shark or you're bank manager then  :laugh: