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hey guys i was bored today so i figured ide take the couple hours to wash and wax my vic and i figured while im at it i may as well use the debadging DIY and rip those suckers off... heres some pics, but while i was pulling at the civic badge i ripped back my thumb nail and now it hurts really bad and theres a little red mark under it. but anyways the debadging turned out as good as i thought it would, had to use tar and bug remover and goo gone to get that **** off though... jesus.


yea yea, dont need to hear anything about the tails, they are goin asap.


my poor thumb... just thought it was kinda funny that i got an "injury" from debadging... not actually that bad at all.. just the red line under the thumb and it hurts when i push on it...

 
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I had a blister on my thumb for a week from debadging .

 
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I take it you guys didn't use fishing line to pull it off?

 
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Can't you use a piece of twine?

 
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haha, i remember doin, mine; took hours takin all the gunk off with my fingers. but it came out clean as a whistle!

 
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i just used floss to take off the vic sign then got warm water and a towel and used tons of elbow grease and it took about 10 mins and look clean and much better. Great job and hope the thumb gets better

 
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DAMMAT FISHING LINE IS PERFECT. arg... i used a guitar pick and my fingernail... ouch

 
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ya I get hurt no matter what I do to it.

 
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oh also, sorry to change the subject real quick but i was lookin at some blacked out headlights and i was thinkin hey, if i opened up my headlights to paint them, is there any way i could get rid of the reflector or change the color of it...? i HATE the little smidgin of amber on the side profile look of my car.... grar.

 
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ouch...my fingers were ten times that bad when i took my headlights apart cuz i didnt know of the oven trick until i got them appart and people gave me tips...haha

actually with the little smidgin of amber with the blacked out headlights looks awesome...im asuming u have an 04-05...ill show u some pics...im not thread jacking just showing an example...


with lights off (noticed i installed sidemarkers)

with lights on...and i had to catch my sidemarker on cuz its set to blink only not on with parking lights
heres jus and example

 
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yea i dunno, i have eyelids and stuff so i already dont like how the 04 headlights look with that little tab sticking up into the fender (hence why i was at one point thinking about down an 01-03 front end conversion), so i wanna black em out to kinda hide that tab (my car is black so it should blend in somewhat), and my headlight bulbs are very blue and i have blue turn signal bulbs so that amber piece is just out of place and makes the blue turn signal bulb shine weird like a mixture of blue and amber... just not my style. im gonna try to pry it off or something and replace it with a clear reflector (as to still be legal...) well see how it turns out (obviously ill just have to use a standard clear circle reflector or something unless u guys know where i could get a reflector for ti taht would fit in the slot thats not amber...

 
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yeah the debadging job is a lotta work for something so small. but it looks good don't it!

 
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um the reflector will leave a hole if you take it off. Most people either paint it chrome/silver or put some aluminum foil over it.

 
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heres pics of those pesky reflectors, maybe ull get what i mean...

not the bad angle, but it still doesnt fit in... and...

thats the BAD ANGLE haha im ashamed of my amber...

 
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i think the amber looks awesome. i just blacked out mine the other day btw.

 
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nice vic... what happened to your stock tails? oh and i take it that you used 01-03 eyelids on your car... they look short.

 
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Does AEM pay people to put stickers on thier cars? Just wondering. I can't see why I'd ever do it unless they were giving me $$$.

Car looks clean, I wouldn't be too concerned over the little amber part. The wheels fit nice and it looks smooth.

 
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that upper grill looks sweet on the 04/05

 
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I think im gonna wash and wax the 05 this week or the weekend and take the rest of my badges off. the only one i have left is the civic one

 
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haha as i said at the beginning of the thread in my disclaimer, the tails are goin asap, i dont really like the stock 04 ones, dunno why u guys like em so much, too simple and happy looking, nothing special. i like the stock 01-03 ones much better and i think im gonna buy http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=146581 those tails instead of the altezzas that are on there now, if anyone wants to buy the altezzas ill sell em and ship em anywhere. i think those tails that im buyin look awesome, very unique, and match well. I was thinking about smoking my original 04 ones but i realized fully smoked ones look a little odd on a NHBP vic. AWESOME on a SSM vic tho.

 
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and yes, 01-03 eyelids, dont quite fit right... ... but i used the 3M tape liberally and they sorta bend to fit around the headlights, only a few people have noticed it and they say its not too bad, so whatevs, i think they look tight. but when i get a CF hood on ill just do the real deal with 04-05 real cf eyelids.

 
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haha i have those tail lights

 
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not bad...i see i have opposite taste of you...haha...the amber does look outa place...if ur gonna black them out than when u take out the amber peice to paint the housing just paint it blue after u sand it down with 600 wetsand

 
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I think black cars look awesome with blacked out tails. That's how I had mine, and it looked great. As for blacking out the headlights, once you black them out, try replacing the amber piece. It looks sweet.

 
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If anyone ever needs to debadge a car (or pull off a bodykit that used double sided tape) the greatest invention ever is an Eraser Wheel. I went to a local auto body supply store and picked one up. You just attach it to a power drill and it does all the work. For only $12 it was WELL worth the money. It's a great way to pull off vinyl graphics, adhesives, or pinstripes from your car without damaging the paint.