Interior/Exterior Debadge or not to debadge
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Debading 101
I appreciate everyone's input on debading; so I decided to take pics of what I did and show you all what I did.
1. Used a blow dryer for about 30 secs on each letter and then used Dental Floss moving up and down while moving to the right. Come to find out I only really heated the first letter and the remaining letters I didn't have to heat just using floss removed them from the car. However, still needed to heat the adhesive to remove it fully from the car. Probably should of heated the letters like I started to from the beginning and then I wouldn't of added an extra step.
2. Then I used Griots Garage Adhesive Remover and completely got the excess residue off of the car which would be the exterior showing of the letter, refer to pic 2.
3. Then I washed the section of the car where the badge was removed using Meguiar's Car Wash.
4. Then I wax the section of the the car where the badge was removed with Zymol Car Wax. I did 2 coats of wax.
Now it looks like the badge was never there.
1. Used a blow dryer for about 30 secs on each letter and then used Dental Floss moving up and down while moving to the right. Come to find out I only really heated the first letter and the remaining letters I didn't have to heat just using floss removed them from the car. However, still needed to heat the adhesive to remove it fully from the car. Probably should of heated the letters like I started to from the beginning and then I wouldn't of added an extra step.
2. Then I used Griots Garage Adhesive Remover and completely got the excess residue off of the car which would be the exterior showing of the letter, refer to pic 2.
3. Then I washed the section of the car where the badge was removed using Meguiar's Car Wash.
4. Then I wax the section of the the car where the badge was removed with Zymol Car Wax. I did 2 coats of wax.
Now it looks like the badge was never there.
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I didn't debadge because I didn't like the Cooper S badge, (if that was the case, then I wouldn't of brought the car) I debaged because it gives it a more clean look. However, if I was able to blackout the Cooper S badge like I did everything else then I would of done that. Unfortunately, Aesthetic Creations, doesn't have a blackout cover for the Cooper S, so the only thing left was to remove it. It would not and didn't look right with every chrome piece blacked out and the Cooper S badge still chrome. I also wasn't going to take the time to tape the car and try and spray the letters with Plasti-Dip like I did most parts except for the MINI Wings, that would of been insane. In addition, If I were to remove the MINI Wing Badges they would have left holes, so then I would have to take my Rally Sports Stripes and redo them so that they would cover the 3 holes that are left over.
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