[ddc73]

Gave car a good clean and wax today and think i want to debadge the boot and wings. My question is, the car is just over two year old and was wondering will i be left with a paint shadow where 330d badge has been with it being two year old???

[JOHNBMWM5]

It may well do.
Compound may do the trick.

[deebee]

Debadging is for winners, if you love a smooth clean car then you can't beat it

[snipnoob86]

nah shouldnt be any paint shadow or whatever you want to call it. remove the badge and give it a damn good polish and itle be reet. ironically took my friends off early last week. he has a 13yr old 318 vert.cant tell there was ever a badge there

[ddc73]

Thanks for the replies. Hair dryer and fishing line on rest days then

[shane3003]

Do the badges just come off? Relatively easily?

[JustChris]

Originally Posted by shane3003

Do the badges just come off? Relatively easily?

Its a mini struggle, summer is better as everything is already a little warmer to heat up.

[shane3003]

Ok cool, may give it a try

[Soul_Glo]

Debadged my space grey E92 last year at 7 years of age. There were ghost marks for a few weeks but when I polished it out a bit more those disappeared. I can only assume it was adhesive that could only be seen in a particular light. It looks awesome debadged. Autoglym SRP was the product that did the trick and it took a lot of elbow grease. Using a clay bar helped massively too. My recommended product for removing the visible adhesive is Autoglym tar remover.

[Twenty2Three]

Here is mine, never noticed the lack of MSport badges until the other day

[BimmerMad]

Originally Posted by Three28iman

Here is mine, never noticed the lack of MSport badges until the other day

They're about £80 fitted if you want them

[ddc73]

So wash again today, got hair dryer, fishing line, AG tar remover and AG SRP out. This is the result of 15 minutes work. Love it, very clean to look at and easy to do.

[HiBee]

Originally Posted by ddc73

Gave car a good clean and wax today and think i want to debadge the boot and wings. My question is, the car is just over two year old and was wondering will i be left with a paint shadow where 330d badge has been with it being two year old???

No. Not if you clean it right away. It shouldn't. Possible slight difference in the shade but i wouldn't assume it's noticible unless your looking for it.

[HiBee]

Originally Posted by shane3003

Do the badges just come off? Relatively easily?

Yep.
A bit dental floss or fish line.

[Kal101]

Originally Posted by ddc73

So wash again today, got hair dryer, fishing line, AG tar remover and AG SRP out. This is the result of 15 minutes work. Love it, very clean to look at and easy to do.

Nit such a good idea to de badge your no plate though!!!!

[C5_GBO]

I went with the factory delete option... :-)

Untitled by Carl.Gibbs, on Flickr

Love the clean look

[mcdokika]

I prefer it with badges . Sorry

[Daftasabrush]

always wanted debadged cars, when I've had the option to de-badge from the factory, I've always done it. Never had the balls to debadge cars with badges on already - too worried about paint/dirt colour change.

[Rukka]

Originally Posted by ddc73

So wash again today, got hair dryer, fishing line, AG tar remover and AG SRP out. This is the result of 15 minutes work. Love it, very clean to look at and easy to do.

Looking good

[Rewind303]

Originally Posted by ddc73

Gave car a good clean and wax today and think i want to debadge the boot and wings. My question is, the car is just over two year old and was wondering will i be left with a paint shadow where 330d badge has been with it being two year old???

Do it. I had my 3 LCI debadged at purchase and couldn't be happier. It was a last minute thing and I was worried there may be marks but nothing. THe dealer said they come off easy almost never mind how old the car is.

As well as a nice clean look (and easier to clean) I love that people have to check the exhaust to guess what engine is in the car before trying anything stupid at the lights.