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Warren Moore
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ31 2JZ-GE
Posts: 140
Reg: 01-2010
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Today I badged my Toyota emblem. It came off fairly easily but it left a lot of adhesive. I took my time to slowly peeled off the adhesive and it has left a residue.
The emblem has 3 pins behind it when it plugs into 3 holes in the body.
What the best way to clean up this mess? Would a cut and polish work? Should I fill the 3 holes in the body? What do most people do when they debadge their car?
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Oszkar Izsold
Tinkerer
Queensland
Soarer V8 Limited
Posts: 6
Reg: 02-2010
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I debadged all my cars since now (possible will do my soarer too) and always took them to a panel beater/painter guy. Needs a respraying usually, and don't cost too much money (at least in Europe) |
Wafi Cheebo
TryHard
Victoria
T
Posts: 214
Reg: 09-2006
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Hey Warren,
Usually the best was is to take the boot lid to a panel shop and the holes should be really mig welded rather than filled with body filler as it may fall through the holes later on, seen it happen heaps of times on soarers. They will need to re-spray the whole boot lid. |
Ali Saeed
Goo Roo
WA
V8 Limited
Posts: 1853
Reg: 09-2007
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respraying the whole bootlid would be an epic waste of money |
Warren Moore
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ31 2JZ-GE
Posts: 141
Reg: 01-2010
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wow didn't think it say such a hard job to badge a soarer. thought it would be pretty much remove the badge and polish it up, seems otherwise. |
David Barnes
TryHard
Qld
Celsior V8
Posts: 410
Reg: 06-2008
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Warren,
Just a bit of bug and tar remover will do the trick, and some paint cleaner / polish will help aswell.
As Wafi suggested, it needs to be welded up. But
if you have a rear wing, then they can just spray the section below the wing.
hope that helps |
Warren Moore
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ31 2JZ-GE
Posts: 143
Reg: 01-2010
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ok great, i will have a look for some of that bug and tar tomorrow. and yes, i do have a wing but when i get my vertex fitted i was hoping to remove the wing  |
Christian Somerville
TryHard
South Australia
UZZ31 V8 LTD
Posts: 339
Reg: 03-2009
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I am doing the same thing warren, but I am taking the soarer badge off too. |
Warren Moore
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ31 2JZ-GE
Posts: 145
Reg: 01-2010
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I'm doing that too Christian, just couldn't be bothered doing that tonight haha |
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
325i Coupe
Posts: 4259
Reg: 11-2005
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I had it done on my Limited in 2008, $300 for a full boot respray.
Note the 1994-6 model tail lights.
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Aiden Cheese
TryHard
QLD
Soarer jzz30
Posts: 355
Reg: 09-2009
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When you do post it like that, it does look ugly.. such a huge unrelenting ass.  |
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
325i Coupe
Posts: 4262
Reg: 11-2005
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Yep, one reason why I got a boxy BMW. The shape of the soarer began to irritate me! |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 5256
Reg: 10-2005
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Only looks bad in photos. |
Evan Kaio
DieHard
Beautiful sunny good @ rugby 'Canes'
'91 UZZ31. 92 TT
Posts: 598
Reg: 01-2007
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Aiden Cheese wrote on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 12:16 pm:When you do post it like that, it does look ugly.. such a huge unrelenting ass.
Hmmm.. Barge Arse? |
Ali Saeed
Goo Roo
WA
V8 Limited
Posts: 1856
Reg: 09-2007
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needs a spoiler |
Warren Moore
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ31 2JZ-GE
Posts: 149
Reg: 01-2010
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What did you get done to the holes Mike? |
Joe Russell
DieHard
Manawatu
4.0 V8 GT-L (UZZ31)
Posts: 547
Reg: 10-2008
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Mike did what all men do to holes Warren. |
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
325i Coupe
Posts: 4271
Reg: 11-2005
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I believe they got welded up along with some spoiler ones by the panel guy. |
Warren Moore
TryHard
Victoria
JZZ31 2JZ-GE
Posts: 150
Reg: 01-2010
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so it was $300 including all the welding? |
Mike Beck
Goo Roo
New Zealand
325i Coupe
Posts: 4272
Reg: 11-2005
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Yes sir and painting |
Christian Somerville
TryHard
South Australia
UZZ31 V8 LTD
Posts: 343
Reg: 03-2009
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Cheapppp. |
Robert Cranfield
Tinkerer
NSW
Soarer V8 Limited (UZZ31)
Posts: 88
Reg: 12-2009
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The holes can also be filled with solder if done properly and assuming you have a decent sized soldering iron with a point.
I did both sides of my HQ Monaro and when I sold it 15 years later they were still fine. Less heat, no warping and a quick wipe with a body file rather than a sander/grinder. Do it wrong however and they will pickle up and bubble over time.
Unless the top of the bootlid paint is shot you should only need to get the back painted. Even if the match isn't 100% it's extremely hard to pick due to the change in panel angle at that point.
That'd be my 20c.
Rob |
Jesse Twartz
Tinkerer
South Australia
Soarer TT
Posts: 11
Reg: 02-2010
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My soarer was debadged when I bought it however within a couple of weeks a truck cleaned up the rear end while I was at work. When I got the car back from repairs they had put a boot lid on it with badges! Devastated.
They offered to fix it up if I made an appointment to do so however I really just wanted my car back after 8 weeks of it being undriveable. |
Natasha D'Abreo
TryHard
Victoria
TT
Posts: 161
Reg: 10-2009
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If its just like gluey sticky stuff, you can you Tea tree oil. That works really good. I used that on A sticker that I took off my car and it removed the residue. |
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