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GTI Badge removal
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 11:52 am
by s88stg
Hi,
Just got my gti grille that i ordered from VAGparts today. Any advice on how to remove the gti badge? as unfortunatly i dont have a gti
gonna paint the red bit black too
got my german number plates aswell, i'll put up pics when i've got the grille on too if you like.
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:46 pm
by s88stg
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:17 pm
by gti-joe
My missus is lovin that colour, whats it called. Can see a trip to the nearest dealer comin up.
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:58 pm
by s88stg
Thanks, its Cornflower blue, metallic. The colour looks really vivid in those photos i think.
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:03 am
by KennyPOLO_Gti
Colour code the bumpers and it will look even better! What size of alloys ya got?
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:18 pm
by s88stg
Aye, was thinkin getting the bumpers colour coded, gonna get it lowered first tho, it needs it badly. There 17's.
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:59 am
by charlievwp
Hiya,
Nice car! I got a gti grille on mine too. The only problem with the badge is getting rid of the plastic mounts behind. I got a scalpel and managed to carve most of it out, then heated the scalpel to smooth off the edges.
There is still one small tricky cross-piece as you'll see from the photo but i'll be tackling that another day!
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:03 pm
by s88stg
Yeah looking good, Im gonna get round to that sometime soon.
How long did it take you?
You should paint the red stripe black and stick it back on, thats what I done, I just spray painted it.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:48 pm
by charlievwp
Yeah, got the strip off at the moment. Just gotta get the black paint...thinking of doing the VW badge black too and i've got the badge from the original grille to experiment with!
I guess it took no more than an hour - purely depends how sharp your scalpel is, if you have a steady hand and patience!
I got a drill-bit to drill out the middle then worked out with a very sharp scalpel.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:48 pm
by Sershen
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:59 am Post subject:
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Hiya,
Nice car! I got a gti grille on mine too. The only problem with the badge is getting rid of the plastic mounts behind. I got a scalpel and managed to carve most of it out, then heated the scalpel to smooth off the edges.
There is still one small tricky cross-piece as you'll see from the photo but i'll be tackling that another day!
After seeing this post I decided to remove mine!
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:54 pm
by charlievwp
Nice job! You even got the tricky middle bit out...did you find it ok?
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:24 pm
by chrisash32
s88stg wrote:Thanks, its Cornflower blue, metallic. The colour looks really vivid in those photos i think.
And just for the record and comedy value if you want to order paint for your car its known to the dealers and the rest of the world as "Tossa Blue"
