Badge Delete / De-Badge
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Soldato
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I prefer the look without, looks much tidier
I left mine on for the opposite reasons most people do...
1.6 badges but running ~320bhp 2.0 turbo
You Troll!!
I always get wax or polish around the edges of the letters which no one else notices but it bugs me just enough to be annoyed by it but not enough to get the tooth picks out to remove it
If I ever get the chance to spec a new car and badge deletion is an option I'll be ticking that box.
Why not just take them off your current car then
Personally it is nothing to do with that, cars just look cleaner without them in my opinion and certaintly makes them easier to clean. Would you begrduge someone who has black plastic door bump strips and paints them? Same sort of thing, peoples opinion on what looks better.
I dunno, sub 6s 0-60 with an (artificially limited) top speed of 155mph would not be described as 'far from quick' by the majority of people. Obviously a real top end hot hatch like an A45/M135i/RS3 etc would leave it trailing but I doubt many 'Barrys' are going to be packing one of them and the supermini type of competition we are likely talking about here (Fiesta ST, Clio 197/200 and the like) may struggle gaining enough height to do the ****ing unless it is on favourable roads where agility is more important (the type of roads where 'racing' is totally unacceptable in the first place).
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I've debadged my Nissan so it matches the front end of not having a Nissan badge. Looks nicer too 
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I have debadged every car I've owned, to an extent...
Fiesta ST had the 'FIESTA' lettering taken off. Just left the Ford logo and the ST badge.
Civic Type R had the 'Civic' badge removed, everyone knows what it is by looking at it.
My MX is like this as stock:
But mine looks like this, looks tidier without the Mazda and MX5 text IMHO.
Fiesta ST had the 'FIESTA' lettering taken off. Just left the Ford logo and the ST badge.
Civic Type R had the 'Civic' badge removed, everyone knows what it is by looking at it.
My MX is like this as stock:
But mine looks like this, looks tidier without the Mazda and MX5 text IMHO.
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I agree some cars just look a lot neater without
I followed a BMW 3 series GT M sport (at least I assume that's what it was by all the badges) the other day. It looked like a cub scout wearing his sash full of merit badges. "And I got this one for helping an old person across the street". It was an older guy driving it too. So I don't think it was a case of him badging the car up himself to look more impressive than it actually was, so it had to have come from factory with them.
I removed most of my Subaru badges, but it doesn't stop people trying to race me
lol
I think there is good and bad to it, some cars look a lot cleaner and some don't just with everything else really.
He must have badged it himself as a 3 series GT would not come with m-sport badges on the rear.
I've no idea. It was stuck under the engine designation badge on the right. It was a horrible looking thing anyway. The only redeeming feature was the paint which was estoril blue. Best BMW colour.
Same as mine!
But yeh, BMW never put m badges below the engine designation so he's added that one himself.
Mmmm, it sure does. I approve of the AD08 OM NOMS!
My DC2 had the side decals removed when the arches were done. Never replaced as it looked cleaner and I also removed the corroded Honda rear lettering on the left. Looks spot on now.
The M135i came debadged at the rear form the factory as it just looked more symmetrical, less cluttered and of course lowered the weight
I took the silly side 'M' badges off as they looked crap and every BMW seems to have the M sport pack these days. Mmmmmmm, 520d m mmmmmmmmmm
