Debadging a car
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I'm usually anti dealer badges, but when we bought our Accord, the dealer said if we kept the dealer license plate frame on, we'd get free car washes for life. We took advantage of that many times. Seemed a fair trade to me.
That is fair. You get recompensated for providing ad space.
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Look, avoiding Undercovers is half the reason I can tell a car by it's headlights or taillights, so sorry Nissan Altima with paper plates, I can tell you're a 2008 from 150m, day or night.
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Why would anyone be ashamed of owning (what looks like a) WRX STi…
Because of other STi owners?
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Look, avoiding Undercovers is half the reason I can tell a car by it's headlights or taillights, so sorry Nissan Altima with paper plates, I can tell you're a 2008 from 150m, day or night.
Not everyone is as adept. (And that Altima was probably recently purchased used, tbf lol).
Also I've seen a ~25yo undercover minivan with the paint half worn to primer in my area, that trick is less reliable here since 2010ish.
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Idk exactly what you're referring to, I see a bunch with FORD put in on the grille. And that's the easiest debadge-job ever; you just buy an aftermarket clean grille. I think it looks very nice & clean.
Same thing with the tailgate, either find a way to tastefully remove the logos or buy aftermarket. I like the look of the "air flow" tailgates, or the straps.
Especially if you're buying a junker, and you don't care if it looks super nice...that's just free license to get creative & rip 'em off, cover up any way you see fit. Fuck Ford badges. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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dead link
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it comes and goes but some years school age kids will gain a car emblem theft fixation. I lived on the same street as a high school and every second year or so any remaining emblems on cars parked outside would be stripped off
the hood ornament stealing days were cooler… but most cars stopped putting them on.
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Yeah, usually the debadged cars I see around me are 3-series and other entry-level luxury sedans. I think the owners want to try and trick people into thinking they're actually driving an M3, etc.
If you debadge an M3, RS3, etc then I think that's actually a pretty cool flex
If you debadge an M3, RS3, etc then I think that's actually a pretty cool flex
I guess it might slightly reduce the chances of getting stolen.
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Even better if you put the badge of another car on it.
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The weird thing is that the SAAB version, that's supposed to share a lot of parts, had a different wheel base even, because they changed so many things. SAAB being SAAB, they lost money on most 9-3x and 9-5x
