de-badgeing

B REAL · Post by **B REAL** » Thu Dec 26, 2002 10:52 am

Does anybody know what the badges on the tailgate are stuck on with?, will it f*@k the paint if i rip them off!

Col · Post by **Col** » Thu Dec 26, 2002 3:53 pm

They're just on with padded double sided tape, so yes u can just pull them off but be careful and you won't damage your paint, if it's an older car the paint underneath may be brighter than the visible paint tho

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Thu Dec 26, 2002 9:20 pm

Also, if you take off the VW badge, there's a dent in the bodywork underneath it, so be prepared for a bodyshop visit if you go that route.

J-O · Post by **J-O** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 3:32 pm

by the way, when you'll get the logo off...just take out the handle at the same time...and you'll have a nice clean back...

KarlM · Post by **KarlM** » Thu Jan 02, 2003 1:14 pm

I found this way gets bagders off easily-

Nick your mum/sisters/girlfriends hairdryer.

Heat each badge, about 5 mins will do.

Get a normal kitchen knife, wrap the blade in masking tape.

Now the glue is heated up, you should be able to prise the badgers off with the knife.

Keep the hair dryer pointed at the badge if it starts to cool down.

When badge comes off, use a tiny bit of white spirit on a cloth to get rid of any left over rubber.

P.S. be careful if you use a heat gun as the paint will bubble if too warm

hayesey · Post by **hayesey** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 7:36 pm

i got mine off my pouring a kettle of hot water over them & then slicing them off with dental tape. Then picked at the rubber/glue that was left and finished the job with T-cut.

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 11:07 pm

hayesey wrote:i got mine off my pouring a kettle of hot water over them & then slicing them off with dental tape. Then picked at the rubber/glue that was left and finished the job with T-cut.

[Idiot Foreigner]

So what's T-cut then?

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Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Sat Jan 11, 2003 11:19 pm

Hi Speedlaw

T-Cut is a fairly abrasive polish used for colour restoring car paint (Ie it takes oxidation off paint)

It's mainly used to get the shine back on old cars.

Hope that helps!

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:58 pm

Thanks Josh.

It's what we seem to call a 'cleaner', to get the top layer off paint. Nasty stuff.

O/t: I've only just noticed how cool the pic in your sig is! (Yup, took me a while)

Post by **Josh_PoloGTi** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 3:04 pm

Hey, thanks for the compliment!

hardhitter · Post by **hardhitter** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 3:19 pm

I found the hairdryer works well, if you have any glue left on the paint work use autoglym intensive tar remover to remove it.

If you have metallic paint, you need to use t-cut metallic. It is a lot less abrasive and is suitable for laquered finish paint. Its not like the normal stuff that takes a layer of paint off, its safe enough to use say after de-badging.

polo2k · Post by **polo2k** » Sun Jan 12, 2003 6:25 pm

when i did mine i took the interior off the boot and then applied heat to the back of the metal to sorten the glue, the reason why i did this is to more evenly distribute the heat so that none of the foam got left behind. none did but if it had i would have used body shop degreaser.

welsh-polo · Post by **welsh-polo** » Tue Feb 18, 2003 8:48 am

The hair dryer trick works great, if u heat the badges up enough u shouldnt even need a knife to pick them off. The hair dryer works really well when taking off your side rubbing strips too. It takes a real long time though and you really need patience. I suggest doin this on a warm summers day when the sun has heated your car up anyway to help you along.

nappy · Post by **nappy** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 11:26 am

i took the back badges off with a hair drier and a credit card and t-cut the tailgait. but im scared of taking off the side strips, because i heard that it may leave white marks under neath??

has anyone else had that problem???

Polo17 · Post by **Polo17** » Tue Apr 15, 2003 6:48 pm

quite a few people do seem to have problems with white marks under the side strips! you dont really know until u take em off!

when i had my mk4 i was lucky cos it was all clean under neath! that was on a flash red polo!

you can always put colour coded mk5 strips on if it goes pare shaped!