Black boot star/badge W202

[Laters]

I decided that I wanted to tone down the rear star badge on the boot/rear.

I took the badge off and coloured it with a black marker to see if I liked the look.
Is there a rear boot star made for the W202 that is either black or black chrome?
If not can anyone suggest somewhere in the UK that can black chrome a original rear star?
I searched on google and most of the people that do black chroming seem to be in the US.

A quick photo (sorry about my poor camera phone ) with the original badge coloured in with black marker.
I think it looks ok

 

[Flash]

Looks nice and i like it - The old Brabus W126, 124 & R129 etc. all used to have black colour coded star or Brabus badging on black cars or if a dark coloured car they would spray the badging/star in that colour. How about black spray paint? Would work out cheaper if you were to get a spray can and regularly respray it if the finish was to wear. A good bodyshop should be able to do it BUT I am sure it would be cheaper and easy for you to do a just as good job yourself with the right paint for chrome.

If you want a Professional Job done then call Brabus and they will probably send you a pre painted one to your colour....

 

[Howard]

an alloy wheel refurbisher would be able to powder coat it for you .....

There'd be less chance of it flaking then .....

 

[Shude]

Black badges work on all cars except for near-black colours, where it sucks. Black works fine though

I recommend buying new ones while you're at it, the main star is about £5 from the parts dept

 

[Rumble]

anyone have a part number for a w202 boot star, and can confirm if its slightly curved at the top or completely flat. Cheers!

 

[KillerHERTZ]

It would look even better with faclift clusters

 

[Flash]

anyone have a part number for a w202 boot star, and can confirm if its slightly curved at the top or completely flat. Cheers!

Not sure BUT face lift cars had a modified bootlid so that may be the case with the Star being slightly curved on either the face lift or pre face lift - on W126 the star is slightly curved as you describe

 

[1998K]

sooy I don't have a part number but as I can see on mine (it's a face lifted car), it's a bit curved.

 

[pluggers]

I wonder if its possible to electro plate the star?

 

[nigel cross]

I used to have a BMW 5 series Estate, or Tourer is BMW speak, and that had Black 'Chrome' on the tailpipe. Not sure what process they use to get it that colour