BMW: De-badging - how to?

use a hair dryer to heat up the badge and then you will be able to peel the
badge off.


"rayban1001" <com> wrote in message
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badge! 
paint? 

Yup,

Use some warm water too from a kettle and pour that over the badge then
GENTLY pull from the top down on the letters. You will need some cleaner to
remove the glue that gets left behind.

DONT use a sharpe knife use a plastic one to get the tops to come away and
your set.

I've done a few now and no issues BUT on older cars the badge will when
cleaned off leave the original paint color and you might find you get an
outline from them -- t-cut or whatever you have will get rid of that.

But as always YMMV.

Steve

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In article <aol.com>, rayban1001 wrote: 

The best suggestion I heard was to use dental floss. I used it to remove a
good-luck horseshoe that the previous owner of my car stuck on the wood
inserts on the dashboard

Cheers, Jan

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On 04 Sep 2003 03:58:18 GMT, com (rayban1001) wrote:

Wouldn't it be Kosher to actually buy an M3 instead of just dreaming about one
whilst driving a cooking 4 pot shopping car.

Hugh
 

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>In article <aol.com>, rayban1001 wrote: 

I am really interested in doing this to one of my 525i's. Not an M3 badge,
though, but an M5 one. How much faster do you think the car will be with the
new badge on it?

Also, I think that I should get a few more horsepower if I put on an M steering
wheel and rear view mirrors. Maybe if I get enough of these things changed, I
can keep up with the Civics around here.

I think most of us by now realize that the more of this "stuff", like big rear
wings, exhaust extensions, racing decals, etc. a car has on it, the *slower* it
will be.

It must have something to do with the extra weight and drag that this stuff
puts on the small engines these cars have.

You will probably discover that if you do put stuff like this on your car, you
will get more challenges from other drivers at stoplights that will end up
kicking your butt. Is it better to keep losing to "inferior" cars, or to
ignore their challenges?

Dick Schneiders

Hugh Gundersen wrote:
 
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Wouldn't it be Kosher to read the post fully and then put the reply in
the correct place?

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Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

>Wouldn't it be Kosher to actually buy an M3 instead of just dreaming about 

Thanks for the advice Hugh! I'm going to take my student loans, go rob a bank,
and buy an M3! )

i love newsgroup answers,

corky

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 14:54:25 GMT, Scott M <yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

Apparently, you'll have to wait until he finds someone to ask ;-)