De-badge balls up

[twosnowmen]

As some of you may know, Ive just removed a gash AMG badge from the back of my ML.

Looks a lot better, however, you can still make out the outline of the AMG badge, and Ive tried everything. Everything. The full range of AutoGlym products available on the market.

You cant really see it, unless you look at it a t a certain angle of the sun is really shining on it

Its getting on my nerves everytime I walk past the car Im looking for it

Please guys, apart from belt sander what you expert's recommend?

Cheers Andy

 

[tpwuk]

2000 grade wet n dry sand paper, with plenty of soapy water and then polish back to shine with some rubbing compound.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Have you tried T-Cut? Nail varnish remover? White vinegar?

 

[twosnowmen]

2000 grade wet n dry sand paper, with plenty of soapy water and then polish back to shine with some rubbing compound.

Have you tried T-Cut? Nail varnish remover? White vinegar?

Legends. Will try that.

 

[adam87]

It sounds the same sort of thing you get when de-stickering some vans, you remove every swirl and bring back the colour but you can still see the outlines of the lettering. May need a lot of cutting back.

Or it might be the same as on my C200, the boot has had a poor repsray at somepoint and where the C200 badge was the C200 lettering looks a different silver to the rest of the boot!

 

[matty.13]

might sound abit wierd but try hair spray , worked for me

 

[flango]

Dead Easy a product called Goo Gone, just google it one wipe and it will be gone

 

[adam87]

I think he means the paint itself is indented where the AMG badge was, sounds like hes got all the glue and sticky pad off!

 

[BoyracerAU]

I'd try a clay bar. That's how I removed the remnants of a magnetic P plate off one of my cars. The PO had obviously left it on the car for quite some time and it had baked on. I had to pick the remnants off and the whatever was left was removed with a plastic scrpaer and a clay bar.

 

[stwat]

Try some rubbing compound first. Concentrate on the visible outlined areas when rubbing it in and then finish off with some wax.

If that doesn't remove the outline then tpwuk's advice is pretty much spot on.

 

[MD5]

Normally, white spirit is all you need to get rid of that kind of glue, but if it's indentation, the concentrated effort in a small area may get rid of the outline, but in itself may become a noticable small area. A clay bar will be safe, but I would go easy on the abrasive side of things, unless you want to do the whole panel, and then be careful of blooming.

 

[BTB 500]

Depending on how old the car is and how long the badge has been on, the other problem can be that the rest of the paint has faded slightly due to sunlight.

 

[Simon_M]

It will be the fact the paint under the badge does not have the swirls of the rest of the panel. Had the same problem with my CLK, combo of T-Cut & Scratch-X sorted it. Just do the whole panel and then rewax it.

 

[Rashman]

I had this on my old 208.
I de-badged it and could still see "ghosting" of the lettering.

I put this down to the paint being fresher under the lettering compared to the rest of the car that had been exposed to the sun.

After around 2 years, the ghosting has now pretty much gone.

I figure the fresh paint that was under the lettering has now "caught up" with the rest of the car's paint.

 

[Ian B Walker]

There is a product called 3G. Obtainable from any auto paint supplier. Works wonders on paintwork, easy to apply and swirl free.

 

[grober]

There is a product called 3G. Obtainable from any auto paint supplier. Works wonders on paintwork, easy to apply and swirl free.

Made by Farecla Farecla - G3 Regular Grade Paste Good stuff as Ian says. However I'm with BT500 and Rashman on this. Its possible UV light has changed the colour of the paint not "masked " by the badge. No amount of polishing is going to correct that unless you remove the clear coat entirely- and even then??? Its possible that by the end of this summer [ lots of UV sunlight hopefully?] the "difference" will have faded quite bit- why not leave it till then?

 

[nigel cross]

If you have any polish, do you have any Brasso but as mentioned before if it is visible due to colour difference(bleaching from the sun) the you are snookered, unless you get the whole boot polishe and even then there's no guarantee