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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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So what's T-cut then?

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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!

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)

Hey, thanks for the compliment!

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.

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.

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.

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???

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!