mattyg23

ok here is a pic of my car, the guy before me put a type r badge on the back (dont ask me why) and it is held on the car with what seems to be an adhesive, not very strong. i know goo gone would do the trick but i went to pep boys, advanced auto parts, autozone, and walmart and nobody had it. so my question is would wd 40 be safe to use?

cheukkin

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wd 40 is ok, I would recommend you to use a heat gun or blower to heat the adhesive first, then use the tooth floss to take off the badge, then use wd 40 to get the rest of the adhesive off.

cheukkin

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forget to say with your nice finger....haha..

FALKEN

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Home Depot has Goo-Gone

EM2 Shinobi

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what he said, when using the wd40 to remove the sticky residue make sure not to leave it on too long and completly clean it off, it has pertoleum and that eats paint.

mattyg23

ok so i heat the adhesive with like a hairdryer and then take floss to remove the badge and then use the wd 40

djrabbi

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i have a bottle of goo gone.... u can pick it up ahha

beadebaserr

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I've discovered that the best thing to use to get that adhesive off is hand cleaner, like the white stuff you buy at auto parts stores. Just use a heat gun or blow dryer, then take the badge off, then put some of that hand cleaner on it and let it sit for a bit, rub at it with your fingers, and just keep doing it until it's gone.

RHCP0801

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yea, heat it up with a hairdryer or heat gun than use some fishing line or dental floss to get the badge off, than use a little bit of wd-40 to get the excess goo off....dont leave it on there too long

blouisgod

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Dont use wd40 when goo gone is at homepot like Falken said.

joe6680

Bug and tar remover works well same with rubbing alcohol.

Spartacus

I used my finger nail to scratch off the sticky stuff after using goo gone...I didnt know what else to use....but the hairdrying technique sounds good

ex2k3

also the paint underneath might be off (mine was when i debadged) and i used meguiar's scratch-x and the paint matched back up perfect

So.Ill.EM2

they have goo gone at lowes...i saw it yesterday...

mattyg23

thanks for all the help guys, i guess ill hit up lowes tomorrow cuz i woke up this morning and had a flat, had to buy a new tire

mattyg23

i did it today and it worked wonders, to my surprise there were no chips or scratches

redrocket600

so finish it off, and remove the civic and ex emblems!

jonjon81

someone tried to steal my EX badge.. ::shurgs:: i came to my car one day and it was 1/2 broken off

TRIZ

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Ha, wow.. .I yanked my badge off the first few weeks of having my car. left the honda and civic on the rear though, just didnt like the trim level being show to the whole world. I mean ****, we can all tell the differences between the trim levels without having to look at the badge anyways, and to everyone else- they dont care one way or another.

sorry to hear it was the target of a jackass. It looks a lot cleaner with out it anyways.

LT2004ever

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Truth, thats what i said to someone who asked me y i wanted to debadge my car. And i was explaining, about how civic owners know, and as for everyone else, i don't care or they don't care.

So.Ill.EM2

so when you debadge it, are the badges just stuck on?? i was under the impression that there might be holes if you remove them...hmm....anyone know??

AmbulanceMonkee

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The "H" leaves some kind of plastic tabs, I think, but everything else comes off clean.

estebomb_ftw

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Hmmm makes me want to debadge my stuff...tempting...
I hate when people at school talk to me(and you know they know nothing about cars) and are like "Your car is a Civic right? It's really nice, I want one too." I get that crap a lot and I just want to be like, "Shut up! Only reason you know it's a civic is because my cars too fuc*in slow to get out the parking lot so you can read my rear. And if you get the same civic as me, I'll shank your b**ch azz foo!!!!!" :] Only Mag Met civic at school. Reppin yo!

AmbulanceMonkee

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I'm ripping my civic emblem off once it warms up again and I have time. The cheap *** DX doesn't come with a DX badge, so that's one less thing I have to take off. Just make sure you save the stock emblems, and put them back on when you get ready to sell. I've read on here that it hurts the value of the car if you leave them off, 'cause they think it was crashed and repainted or something.