I want to take off the emblems on the back of my car (a4, 1.8t)

what is the best way to do this? how do i remove the glue etc.

i have a 2003 and its silver, so i doubt there would be any paint fading or anything....

thanks, and sorry for the dumb question :)

Just use some dental floss or fishing line to remove the emblem. To get the residue off, use some litter fluid. You may need to buff the area after all is said and done.

Its fairly easy to do, i just did it on my 99 and it left alot behind that wont come off easy. On newer cars its not as bad. All you need is fishing string, some people use a heat gun, i used a hairdryer to heat it just because a heat gun can get fairly hot and didn't wana mess up the paint. Then get some goo gone or sticker removing compound or even wd-40 works, some sticker removing stuff can strip your paint, so try it in an area not visable first. I did this at my uncles when we fleed from hurricaine frances and he made a scraper out of some plastic like HDPE, high density pollyethelene, .. spelling???
Good luck, it really make the car look better.

sure does... I used a HAIR DRYER to heat them, took them off with some string (should have thought of fishing wire) and took it to a body shop that clued me in to debadging... he buffed and waxed it for free.

Dang!! i was just really carefull with a razor blade. and i used a gallon of goo gone and a years worth of elbow grease

hair dryer makes huge difference

THanks for the info guys.
Im in FL, so hopefully the hot climate will help too :)

has anyone messed up doing this?

not really hard to mess up on, i messed up on mine but it is barely noticable, since my car is older, the age of the sun hitting around the emblem and on the emblem faded and there is still residue left on the car that is hard to get off. Im taking it to a body shop to have them like polish it with some shit they use that will blend everything in, I can't think of what it is. Where are you in florida, im in the not so sunny sunshine capital?

Hey, thanks for the info. ill do it when i get back to FL. Im in st pete on the west coast. I was evacuated prematurley (i cant spell) and im in ct now, back to fl tomorrow :) where are you?

im on the east side in sebastian, indian river county. We got hit by frances, not nearly as bad as charlie, well the eye hit like north of west palm , but we had 115mph winds.

damn hurricanes!

ok ok wait i got a question... are they connected by just glue or is their a hole their?

Just did mine. No holes, just double sided tape. Heated them up with a hair dryer, and used fishing line to skim them off. The residual glue was a bit of a pain. I used goo-gone and a lot of elbow grease. Developed one small scratch from over buffing, but it pretty much came out with a little light buffing compound and wax. It looks great.

do you know anyone at all at a body shop? i went to this guy that my friend knows and i brought my friend. it took literally 5 minutes to do. he used a little plastic scraper to pop them right off. then he used one of those air powered eraser things and it came out pefect.

if not, all the ways with fishing line and heatin them up and stuff work too.

just to let you all know, i popped them off with no problem at all, maybe because it was like 100 degrees outside. i used some bug remover which said it was safe on all paints. i did all this with no sctratches or anything, it looks perfect and sooooo much better than with them on. Thanks for the advice people

use a heat gun and heat up the decals. The glue should melt and the decals should peal off.

so what is the best way to get the lines from around the emblems once their off? Like a good buffing compound or a body shop secret?

I took them off to day and it looks great. I used alot of goo-gone, floss, a snowboard wax scraper, cleaner wax and a clay bar. Also, a hair bryer and it worked great. the a4 came off easy. The 2.8 quattro had more stuff left over and that took a while to get off but now it looks amazing.

nice, glad to hear it went well.

Has anyone tried removing the rings on a B5? I am going to shave my new car and am thinking about taking the rings off. Are they also glued on the B5, or do they have holes? Do you think removing your emblums makes you any more of a target for getting your car keyed? Or does it help by keeping the car discrete?

i like how my emblems looks on the back

sorry for bringing up an old topic, but i've been at this debadging since 6:00pm and its 7:20pm now here. I just cant get the outline out of my paint. I've heated it and wasted loads of googone on it and repeated and repeated and put elbow grease into. my fingers are starting to blister.


so does anyone know an asy solution plz???

if i just wax it do you think it would
a) do the job
or
b) ensure that ill NEVER get the outline out because its been waxed over?

Claybar

Wow, good game on debaging. I'm at work and i just asked my co-worker for her dental string stuff, and poped them right off. There was some of that grey goop stuff all i had was some Carb Cleaner and it worked great. Thanks for the tips