Debadging my car
#16
Racer
I debadged my GS and love how much cleaner it looks, IMO. I agree with @maclem8223 It took some serious elbow grease, which scratched/marred the paint up a bit and required some polishing afterwards.
The following 2 users liked this post by jonathancl:
NickMayer (11-07-19),
signdetres (11-07-19)
#17
Driver School Candidate
In my experience, badges are pretty pointless and just get in the way of washing/detailing. The average person knows next to nothing about their own car, let alone someone else's car so the badges really mean absolutely nothing to them & those who actually know about cars don't need badges to know what type of car it is. I think most people just see the brand/make and stop there.
I debadged my GS and love how much cleaner it looks, IMO. I agree with @maclem8223 It took some serious elbow grease, which scratched/marred the paint up a bit and required some polishing afterwards.
I debadged my GS and love how much cleaner it looks, IMO. I agree with @maclem8223 It took some serious elbow grease, which scratched/marred the paint up a bit and required some polishing afterwards.
#18
Racer
I didn’t swap out the logo (I don’t think one exists in the correct size for our cars). I purchased some carbon fiber inserts that I saw in another thread here. I wanted black ones but it doesn’t seem like any exist so I settled with the carbon fiber ones and am happy with it. You have to be very close-up to notice that it’s not black. Otherwise, it looks just like the updated Lexus logo with the black background.
#19
Personally when I see a debaged car and I know it for a fact it’s debadged, inside I get this feeling it was probably in a accident. Even though it may not be true. Especially when buying a car and it’s debadged and there’s no accident history and all I get told by the seller is it was like that before I bought it I usually walk away. But that’s me personally. And don’t get me wrong a car with body work is not an issue. Just one possibly not disclosed bothers me lol.
The following users liked this post:
NickMayer (11-09-19)
#21
Racer
iTrader: (2)
Debadge ftw. It's such a cleaner look. I've done it to everything I own that doesn't have pins/holes where it's mounted. My STi, MB..etc. I just did my wife's NX300. Looks so much better. Easier to detail and just a cleaner look. Worse case scenario if you don't like it, you buy the badges again and attach them, you're out less than $100..etc. It's almost absurd how much badging is put on from the factory... engine liter size, awd, model, brand...etc. It's also a feature on most car builds now that you can get the car debadged from the factory. Porsche, MB do this as well.
-Nigel
-Nigel
The following users liked this post:
NickMayer (11-09-19)
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
jonathanz
4Gen GS450H / 350 / 300 / GS-F Classifieds (13-)
1
03-07-17 09:08 AM