Got my W211 back! Badges - stay or go? (poll)

[Gollom]

Finally got my W211 back :bannana: Turned out that she hit me hard enough to bend the towbar All nice and shiny now with a new rear light cluster that just MAY have been broken pre-accident...

The W204 hire car was OK but it's E for me! Didn't think much of the satnav which had an annoying habit of crapping out when near the final destination! Glad to get back to TomTom. And missed SBC Hold more than I thought I would. IMHO the E is a more relaxing drive than the C

Got it home and kept looking at as there seemed something wrong. Then it hit me - they have put the E220 and CDi badges on the boot which it did not have when it went in!

So, what is the panels opinion - keep them or go back to unbadged?

 

[st4]

Be proud, you have the most frugal of E classes.

 

[Gollom]

Be proud, you have the most frugal of E classes.

Spoken like a true Scots!

Thanks Steve

 

[st4]

Spoken like a true Scots!

 

[Dryce]

So, what is the panels opinion - keep them or go back to unbadged?

I always think W211s, in particular, look better unbadged.

 

[Alps]

im asking this very question, the prev owner ticked the badged ommitted option, so never had badges from factory. do i put them on or dont i ?

 

[st4]

I always think W211s, in particular, look better unbadged.

you have a 240, gollom and I have 220cdi's which boast about our thriftiness. I'd be debadged if I ran such a proflogate motor












Kidding

 

[scumbag]

The only badge you need is the 3 pointed star. That says it all.

It's a Mercedes......

If anyone was interested in your car, they would ask about it. If they don't know about cars, what would the badges mean to them?

Less is more and all that.

No badges on mine. The next owner can buy some if they feel the need to display some letters and numbers which mean precisely what?


It looks cleaner and is easy to keep clean too. That goes for any car.

 

[crockers]

The only badge you need is the 3 pointed star. That says it all.

It's a Mercedes......

If anyone was interested in your car, they would ask about it. If they don't know about cars, what would the badges mean to them?

Less is more and all that.

No badges on mine. The next owner can buy some if they feel the need to display some letters and numbers which mean precisely what?


It looks cleaner and is easy to keep clean too. That goes for any car.

lol....yea right -- like it needs badges when there are 4 shiny pots sticking out its rear end...

 

[bennesspipers]

This debadging amuses me, cos i can remember when it started. Back in the eighties sales rep's started this to cover up the fact that their mean bosses only bought them the small engined (or deisel engined) version instead of the model they thought they deserved !

 

[BTB 500]

This debadging amuses me, cos i can remember when it started. Back in the eighties sales rep's started this to cover up the fact that their mean bosses only bought them the small engined (or deisel engined) version instead of the model they thought they deserved !

I worked for Birds Eye in the late 70s / early 80s, and the reps there were given Cortina 1.3s but they were all badged 1.6!

 

[scumbag]

is debadging such a deep thought issue that we have to expand on some kind of frivilous reason as to why, or why not we choose to do what we choose to do.

I have had all my Mercedes Debadged for the clean lines which I beleive are spolit by badging.

If others wish to choose to think it is for other reasons then they are free to think what they like. But it is hardly fair to suggest that "debadging" is just the result of some "ego trip"!

I ensure the dealers also don't put in the stickers in the rear window. This is based on the principle "I don't do stickers".

When you spend anything on a car, new/used/ for restoration, you are spending your own money and are free to do with it as you wish.

In Gollom's case, it was debadged prior to a repair, and has come back badged. My own view is it looks cleaner debadged, which is how it was prior to repair. Gollom may well think it looks better badged!

Badging a car does suggest that you feel the need to let others know what you have. The only people it means anything to, are those who know about cars. The very same people who would either know, or want to ask, if you debadge.

It really is a very personal feeling as to whether you care about the clean look of your car, or whether you feel the need to advertise your car for some reason.

Of course there is the view point that having bigger badges on a smaller car is an ego trip in the same way as taking off the badging on the smallest engined car to make it look like a bigger version. Which of course is pretty much defeated when the car is more than about 2 years old anyway.

Its the same argument as having a personilsed plate.

And it is the same metaility which the marketing people have used to encouarge PCP's!!




Steve, its your choice. but ask yourself this......what exaclty does 220 mean to anyone looking at it?(come to that, where does it say 211?) I guess the 3 pointed star in the middle may mean a damn sight more to most.

On the third hand, be careful in removing the badging, the scar or scratch left could be more unsightly than leaving them on. That may be the view taken by those who wish to keep their car in as pristine a condition as is possible.


PS- Ford Puma's had no badging! Something tells me the Alpha Romeo Brera is a tad devoid of badging too. Not something you could level at the Subaru WRX STi UK or the Mitsubushi EVO IX FQ 400. Of course, Rolls Royce went to town on their badging on the boot.

 

[Gollom]

In Gollom's case, it was debadged prior to a repair, and has come back badged. My own view is it looks cleaner debadged, which is how it was prior to repair. Gollom may well think it looks better badged!

Spot On!

On the third hand, be careful in removing the badging, the scar or scratch left could be more unsightly than leaving them on. That may be the view taken by those who wish to keep their car in as pristine a condition as is possible.

Dealer will be doing it

Thanks all!

Now, for the next debate: People who have big dogs are egotistical...

 

[Dryce]

I'd be debadged if I ran such a proflogate motor

T'is not that profligate. But it deserves the teacher's note "could do better" agaisnt the torque, power, and fuel consumption numbers.

Kidding

No you weren't!

 

[Howard]

I'd de-badge my CLK , but being a derivative of red i'm afraid that it will be a different colour underneath ( where the sun has faded the rest of the paintwork , red is notorious for that ) ...

 

[stevesey]

No badges on mine. The next owner can buy some if they feel the need to display some letters and numbers which mean precisely what?

Says the man with the 63204 number plate.