Larry L

I'm planning to debadge my deck lid this weekend, but the car is silver. How does the silver hold up on the Boxsters? Will the paint under the script be a completely different hue?

mts

Depends. I debadged by 2004 SE and the paint under it matched exactly. Of course it only has 19k miles and is garage kept both at home and when I drive it to work. My friend debadged his 1999 car with 95k miles and the paint underneath was clearly a different hue. However, it's only something you can see from a couple feet away and it turned out kind of cool in my opinion......it's sort of a light "shadow" outline of "Boxster". I like it.

Tierce

I debadged mine after it had 75k or so, and being black, it isn't perfect but you can still see it from certain angles. but again, from only a few feet away.

Larry L

I have a handful of paint care products on hand. I can make it less noticeable if need be, but I'm hoping it won't stick out like a sore thumb.

My new glass-window top showed up this afternoon. It's going to be a busy weekend. I may have to do some of this stuff next week. Got a pair of 6.5" Polk Audio db speakers on the way too. I'm going to try to fit them into the factory locations.

Larry L

The roofers left, and it stopped raining for 18 minutes, so I knocked out the badge while i had a chance.


Pic #1: The offending badge & dental floss.

Pic #2: The badge after being liberally hosed with non-ammonia glass cleaner. Floss started underneath the right side of the script.

Pic #3: Floss halfway through the badge, using plenty of glass cleaner and a gentle sawing motion. Floss is kept flat to the surface of the trunk.

Pic #4: Detached badge and two-sided tape that held it.

Pic #5: Using nylon stick with chisel end to remove two-sided tape. (Not: NOT recommended for 100 point paint.)

Larry L

Pic #6: After first pass with nylon chisel.

Pic #7: After second pass with nylon chisel.

Pic #8: Ghost of badge apparent after removing all tape & glue residue.

Pic #9: Trunk lid after a gentle rubdown with Mequiar's fine cut cleaner, quickie wash job, and quickie wax with a good quality protective wax.

ATL986

looks pretty darn good. well done.

gerrygug

Looks like I will be doing the same this weekend. Thanks for the nice write-up and pictures.

schwank

Yeah, very happy I got mine debadged... looks great.

stumpjumper

I debadged mine because the S was falling off, I ended up rebadging it because the contrasting script broke up the outline a bit and I ended up missing that

Larry L

It did look a bit naked at first, but I've already gotten past it.