koala

I've read a great tip on doing this yourself - line all of the chrome badges in painters tape, so that you have the outline of them once you peel them off with fishing line / dental floss. This is how I might try it.

R_Rated

I helped someone with this recently. Placed a piece of cardboard over the letters and pressed down hard enough to get a good imprint. Drew lines and cut with an exacto knife. BAM - template. Painters tape evenly across the top. Once letters were off places another piece of tape just below to lower the placement since we were going to from 2 lines of lettering to one. BAM. Easy peasy.

koala

Nice! I like your method even better as I'm going to go to the one line as well.

R_Rated

Also - my dealer claims to not have a template... however - that is a ignorance... all dealers do. You could also ask to borrow theirs and just put the letters on in their parking lot if they let you borrow it.

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koala

I've heard a lot of dealers do not actually have every template as they're quite expensive. Either way, you're probably right

dsh

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sessionstu

I think the black lettering looks great on lighter color cars: white, silver, chalk, blue, red. Not so great on black, Agate Grey, etc.

I outlined the letter with blue painter's tape. Used a heat gun to soften up the adhesive. Used some thin thread (no dental floss in the house) to remove the chrome lettering. Then used some Goop Be Gone to remove the residue. Pretty simple to attach the black lettering at that point. Plus there should be a faint black outline of where the original lettering was. The black lettering will hide the residue so no big deal.

I did the 911 lettering first, but it actuality, I should have done it last. It was easier to line up the Porsche lettering. All of the Porsche letters have straight lines.

Make sure to outline and remove one letter at a time. Don't try to remove everything at once. The letters come on a sheet but they're not spaced correctly. Not like replacing a Range Rover front badge. Those badges are peel and stick. Not this one.

plenum

Dealers may not have all of the lettering combinations, sure. But they likely have at least the template holder...

There are two parts -- the holder that drapes over the rear cover, and the lettering template "block" that fits into the holder. If I recall, the holder must secure to the upper edge of the cover at bolt points to hang precisely where the factory initially mounts the lettering. I priced-out the two parts long time ago from Suncoast, and here is what I was quoted:First part is the holder -- the second part was specific to the lettering combination for my '14 C4S. Each lettering combo I am assuming would cost you $174.96 but I didn't price them all out.

4pipes

RDCR

I've done it by placing a strip of blue (painters) tape lined up to the top and another row of tape underneath the existing lettering and then marked the left & right points of each letter on the lower pc of tape with a pencil. Pull the old letters with floss and clean carefully and place the new ones centering on the left/right marks and square to the bottom row of tape. I've done it that way twice now and it's come out fine. This pre-supposes you have the old letters there to work with. If no existing then you need to go measure another car.

Papa Fittig

Thanks. I am still looking for more opinions on the black decals looks. Perhaps a better image


What say you? Thanks.

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