..for the love of God I was bored earlier today

anyway,firstly remove the plastic inserts obviously missing from this pic(pretend the grille is still in place tho)



to remove the centre part of the grille from the car you will need to push your hand down past the bonnet release catch and pull these tabs inwards and push outwards at the same time.



once the grille is out you now have access to the 2 screws holding the badge on,remove them and you have this.



carefully seperate the chrome surround and badge from its mount using some heat and a thin wedge of some sort(only held on by double-sided tape)

..and you should then have this



You can now rub the paint off the back of the badge using some thinners and fine wet'n dry paper



..and then paint it whatever colour you want

like sparkly red and silver for instance



looks like this fitted



..or with the 05 badge



not sure which I prefer,but I know the std blue colour didn't bode well with a white car

and the car in question



...4 months old and not yet covered 700 miles yet

Jon

 

Let me get this right. You moan about is modding and you paint Pink sparkly bits on your badge Er ok very clever.

 

Whats up,had a bad day polishing?

 

great idea. But sparkles?

 

Nice guide, however rather gay colour choice that actually bodes well with the car..

Top marks from me

 

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..and then paint it whatever colour you want

like sparkly red and silver for instance



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You sprayed your fingers at the same time there Jon?

I like the bling, it's very different, prefer the stars over the i

 

Christ,you were bored.

 

Looks 'braw' as we scots say.

I've done mine in red but I like the sparkles idea - neat!

 

i was wondering if the 05 badges fitted into the silver surround,and now i know

cheers mr fudpuker,off to ebay for a pink sti badge i go

marcus

 

Well actually they don't!..they just fit straight on without the chrome surround

Pink isn't gay enough for meso flushed with success and an emense feeling of well being

I set about removing the(ghastly)rear badge today

...bit of a problem here tho



2 bluddy great holes in your boot

don't panic tho

I did that one to match the front



pretty eh?

 

keep toying with the idea of inlaying some carbon fibre on mine might get round to it one day (is the 05 badge easy to get off? i'm assuming that you did it on your old car?)

just one thing jon, time it took to do the badge you could have racked up to that massive 4 digits on your odo and got rid of that running in oil drive the thing FFS!!