De-badging Your Car

[richrat]

Hello all,
This is my first post and I thought I might try to save someone else from having to buy any badges from the dealer.......DON'T TRY TO DE-BADGE YOUR CAR

I have always debadged my cars and have NEVER had any problems......

I started with the rear Mazda badge in the middle of the hatch.........IT HAS 2 HOLES IN THE MIDDLE FOR NO REASON....When I went to the dealer they told me the only badge you can remove is the 3 on the rear hatch after the Mazda.......

The Mazda badge on the left side has 3 holes in it.... (chair)

Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And did these cars pass U.S. Ecco?

This is where the test cars in a chamber for rust/corrosion

If anyone knows please respond......THANKS!

I do LOVE my car......I now have 537 miles on it....2 weeks old.

[dosle]

the 3 has holes then too huh? ah well, that sucks, debadge it and bring it into a piant shop to get filled/shaved and repainted (while its still new paint). thats what i'm doing to my p5.

[Fobby_Monkey]

debadging it would look weird since the truck is so huge.

You should have done some research before debadging.

[jersey_emt]

Proteges have the same 'problem'

[TampaBlackMSP]

Yep, it sucks, but true - due to not wanting to spend $$ on filling/painting, I painted my rear Protege emblem black - not too bad, but not badgeless unfortunately. Drillin' holes in the car for badges doesn't make sense to me either.

[goldwing2000]

The Mazda badge on the left side has 3 holes in it.... (chair)

Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And did these cars pass U.S. Ecco?

This is where the test cars in a chamber for rust/corrosion

If anyone knows please respond......THANKS!

I do LOVE my car......I now have 537 miles on it....2 weeks old.

The holes are common on a lot of vehicles and are used for both locating the badges to ease installation and to keep the badges from sliding if the adhesive gets too hot.

I'm sure a secondary reason is to discourage people from removing the name on the car.

As far as corrosion testing, since the car has a 5-yr/Unlimited-mi Corrosion warranty, then I would assume that they have done any necessary testing.

[TampaBlackMSP]

Common? Hmm, I dunno about that one - most cars I've seen (including high end stuff...Benz, BMW, etc.) don't have holes underneath. Ah well, whatever....

[goldwing2000]

Common? Hmm, I dunno about that one - most cars I've seen (including high end stuff...Benz, BMW, etc.) don't have holes underneath. Ah well, whatever....

I'm not in the habit of de-badging cars but a good number of the ones I've messed with had holes and pins (Benz, Cadillac, Mustang, Honda...).

[TampaBlackMSP]

Well, all I know is we can't debadge our cars easily - which is doodoo imo.

[alexlitov]

Toyota also has holes....

European cars usually don't have holes

[TampaBlackMSP]

I think that's what I'm thinking - my older VW's had them (2 Rabbit GTI's, '90 Jetta GLI), whereas my newer VW's didn't ('95 and '00 GTI)...

[goldwing2000]

Toyota also has holes....

European cars usually don't have holes

Toyota... that's the one I couldn't rememember.

My Benz was an '89. Maybe they did it differently back then. (dunno)

If you really wanted to get creative, you could devise a new badge to put in its place. Like "PIMPIN" or "NO FAT CHICKS" or something. (evil)

[TampaBlackMSP]

How about "Need Money" - now that would make a good badge...or at least an appropriate one! (bang)

[Da 6]

www.youremblem.com (http://www.youremblem.com) is a place dannyboy pointed out...you can make oem like badges...

[blizz81]

D'oh, so much for my hopes of the mazda emblem alone in the center.

[Da 6]

that sux cause the 2.3 badges came with a guide to make the instal as accurate as humanly posible for dealers.

[torque222]

the msp is not that bad to debadge.. the mazdaspeed badge peels right off, then i removed the badge from the center of the grill and the center of the trunk and painted them the same color as my 2003.5 blazin yellow..came out nice.