today we're out in the detail garage, and i'm gonna show you how to do an amazingservice: removing badges from a vehicle! matt in our media department came to me andasked "hey greg, can you remove the badges frommy vw passat?" and i said "heck yeah i can! i've done thata bunch of times!" so i'm gonna show you how i remove badgesfrom a vehicle for a clean, sleek look. on a lot of cars, people want to de-badgethe back or front of the car
so the whole car looks completely sleek, andit gives a whole different look to the car. some vehicles can have the badges removed, and i'm gonna show you an easy way to do that. a couple things before we get started de-badging: first of all, not all cars can be de-badged. some cars actually have holes behind the badgesto line up the badges as the car is being assembled. i can't remove the badges on my mustang'sfender because underneath those badges are two holes to alignthe badge.
some cars don't have those alignment holes, like this passat. the passat has no alignment holes on the back, these are like a sticker on top of the paint. every car is different, so if you want to find out about your car'sbadges and if they can be removed, i recommend you look at a factory manual tosee if the badges have holes on the back, or you can check out an internet forum foryour car and ask questions there. either way, you can get a good answer.
but i'll tell you: do this job with caution! sometimes these badges can't be removed. if they can, they'll come off fine, but sometimes if the car has been repaintedand you remove the badge, there will be a "shadow" behind it. this car has never been repainted, so it's a perfect candidate to have the badgesremoved. to remove the badges, i'm gonna be using someregular dental floss to pull off the badges. you can use piano wire, fishing line, or atype of string.
i'm gonna use dental floss because i was ableto pick some up during lunch. i'm also going to use a heat gun. we picked up this heat gun from the store,you can get these relatively cheap. this will heat up the badge to loosen theglue on the backside, and allow me to pull off the badge. if you don't have a heat gun, you can let your car sit out in the sun aroundnoon or early afternoon, but i recommend you use a heat gun for a professionaljob. you can pick these up for $15-20 at your localhardware store.
when i remove the badges, there's gonna bea shadow. the paint around the badge is fading at adifferent rate than the paint underneath the badge. this car is a few years old, it has about90,000 miles on the clock. that means the paint on the outside is fadingmore than the paint under the badges. so i'm gonna have to polish the surface. when i'm done, i'll use a porter cable 7424xpdual action polisher with a 3'' backing plate. i'm also going to use one of our chemicalguys microfiber cutting pads. and i'll probably use v36 optical grade cuttingpolish to restore the finish underneath.
like i said, this service is a professionaljob, so if you're looking to do this on your car, make sure you have the skills to do this, and make sure you understand the risk thatthe badges might not come off. i explained the risks to matt, matt understandsthe risk, so we're gonna get started and de-badge thiscar! the best time to de-badge a car is when it'sbrand new. the paint is not discolored around or underneaththe badge, and the badge actually comes off a lot easier. here's what we're gonna do..
the first thing i'll do is remove the actualletters. now i'm gonna do this using the floss andthe heat gun. i'll first heat up the letters of the badgewith the heat gun, then pull them off using the floss. let's turn on the heat gun, let it heat upfor a moment.. this is a professional grade heat gun, itgets really hot! i'll start going.. i don't want to put the heat gun too close, if i get too close i can actually hurt thepaint,
so i'll be gentle on the badges. i'm feeling the badges to make sure i'm notgetting them too hot before i go peel them off. it's getting really hot! i'll turn down my heat gun a little bit.. gently heat it up. stay away from tail lights, you don't wantto overheat the plastic. let's try working off the badges.. i'll take some dental floss,
we're using mint dental floss for this one,any type will work. just wrap it around your hands, and gently start sliding under the badge. and look! there we go, we got one off... two off... three off... four.. five...
there we go! all six letters came off real easy! you see how easy the letters came off! now we have the problem of the glue residue. there's a couple things you can do with theglue. you can heat it up and rub it off with yourfingers, which i'll try at first, and i'll actually use a microfiber towel forthis. you see how easily the badges came off!
i'll heat it up a little bit again... this is the trickiest part about the de-badging. i'm gonna try working off the glue with amicrofiber towel so i don't scratch the surface. there we go! boom. pretty cool, huh? after i use this microfiber towel for this,i'll probably throw it away since it has all this glue inside. but you notice i'm pulling off all the gluewith no problem. now i'll use a little chemical guys nonsense,our odor-free and color-free super cleaner.
you can pick it up right on our website: chemicalguys.com i'll take a little bit and rub it on the surface. now i'm not too worried about rubbing hardbecause i'm actually going to polish the surface after. look at the difference we're already getting! we are pulling off that badge like it's nothing! i'm using nonsense because i know it won'tstain the paint. it wont harm the surface, and it's safe onthe surface as well.
some people like to use plastic razor blades, there's another video online that talks aboutusing plastic razor blades. i don't recommend to use plastic razor bladesbecause even plastic razor blades can scratch paint. here at chemical guys we want to give youthe best method to do this, that won't harm your car, and that will give the best results. that's why we make these videos just for you! i got one letter off.
i'll go ahead and heat up the other lettersso i can remove those as well. if you get them nice and hot, they pull offeffortlessly. this one is being a little more stubborn... there we go. once we break the seal, it pulls right off. we're getting that "a" off like it's nothing! be careful so you don't burn yourself, you don't want to get these too hot. i know a lot of people have done these, you'redealing with a heat gun,
this is more advanced detailing. be careful so you don't burn yourself. don't get the paint too hot. we want you guys to remember safety firstwhen you're doing this type of job. nonsense is doing a great job pulling offthe excess glue. i used to like to use glue remover, but i noticed over time that it can harm thepaint, or harm other surfaces and stain plastic, so i don't use glue remover anymore. i just like to use chemical guys nonsense,which does a great job.
i got two letters down. now i'll take my time and get the other fourletters, so watch on camera, i'll have the camera guyskeep rolling. let me take my time and get the job done. there we go... okay guys, we have completely removed the"passat" badge. it's really easy to do. that's the coolestthing! i'm a little sweaty, this heat gun is reallyhot. we're ready to go ahead and do the polishing.
first i'm going to remove both badges, the "passat" and the "2.0t," which is theengine size so it's a completely badgeless look, exceptfor the vw emblem. now i don't think you can see this on camera, but there's what's called a "shadow." the paint around the badges has faded a littlebit. this is a metallic black, and black discolorsa little bit in the sun. i need to match that because the color wherethe passat logo was is darker than the rest of the car.
but i'm going to easily be able to correctthat using v36 and a microfiber pad. if not, i'll be able to color sand it andmake it look clean. before i do that, i'll de-badge the otherside now so i can put my heat gun away. i'll grab some more floss and pull it rightoff. see you in a moment! i'm almost done removing the last bit fromthis badge, it comes off real easy. you'll notice i'm using no heavy cleaners,no glue removers, just nonsense, an all-purpose cleaner.
nonsense is available on our website: it can clean carpet, it can clean paintwork,it can clean wheels and tires. it's color-free and odorless, and it doesnot hurt the surface. i want to take my time and get all the glueoff so when i go to polish, it'll be super easy to do. sometimes glue is more stubborn than others. this car has some years on it. it's not brand new, so the glue has had someyears to settle into the paintwork. i'll heat it up a little bit more to finishit off.
i've done this job on high end porsches, gtrs and skylines from japan, and this job looks very good. it looks good on subaru stis or wrxs. so if you have a subaru and you want to takeoff the badges on the trunk, this works great because subaru doesn't useholes in those letters. you just have to make sure there's no holesunder the badges on your vehicle, which is kind of difficult to do. you can consult internet chat groups or ownersclubs about the car.
you can talk to body shops, or look onlinefor the answer. we're almost done with this side... therewe go. cool. we got all the glue off, and the 2.0t badgeis gone! the paintwork is not harmed in any way. now i'm going to polish the surface to makesure i don't have any ghosting. now ghosting is really hard to see on thecamera, even though it's black paint. it's super hard to see. even for me to see, i have to look at theright angle and get very close to see the ghosting.
i'll still show you how to remove the ghosting. i'll move to the other side that used to say"passat" and i'll use a small cutting pad with somepolish to restore the surface. let's move to the other side. let's finish this job off to get a nice proresult on de-badging this car! i'll take some blue painter's tape and tapeup the tail light right here because i want to polish right up to the light,and i don't want to touch the tail light. matt actually corrected the tail lights, sothey're already swirl-free and i don't want to mess them up.
so i'm gonna put a few pieces of tape on thebottom of the light so i can polish right up to it with the buffer. now i'll grab my porter cable 7424xp. i took the 5'' backing plate off and equippedit with one of our brand new torq 3'' backing plates. it's super flexible, and it'll get right intothis tight spot. now this backing plate, the porter cable,nonsense, and any other products we used on this videoare available at our website: we have the best pricing and deals on ourproducts!
i'll be using some polish as well... i'll take my 4'' microfiber cutting pad, seeit has the chemical guys logo on the back, and attach it right to the backing plate. that gives me the perfect amount of surfacearea to polish this car. i'm going to use our v36. if i need more cutting power, i can easilybump it up to v34. i've got v34, v32 compound, and v38. this is a available in a pack on our website: where you can pick up all of our polishes,
all of our compounds that use the highest technology to get thejob done. i'm gonna take some v36, and i'm gonna makethe cutting power better on this pad by using a big 'x' and i'll take my finger and rub it into thepad. this is priming the brand new pad. from our experience, this vw paint is harderthan most paints, so we want the full cutting power to removethe ghosting. we're not polishing heavy to remove swirls,
the swirls are already gone, we're just fixing the ghosting. i'll give it a quick polish on speed setting1 and 6 to restore the finish. i'll put down my machine, grab a microfibertowel to inspect the surface. see if the ghosting is still there... and there we go, the ghosting is completelygone! it's like the badge was never there! it's like the badge didn't even come fromthe factory. that's a complete professional removal, andthat's the result we want you to get.
i'll hop over to the other side and removethe 2.0t ghosting, and i'll put a little wax or sealant on thecar to protect it from any type of damage. so i'll move to the other side, do it, and then we'll put some wax on. now that we've removed the badge and we polishedit out, we have a perfect true result. we removed any shadowing effect that the badgesleft on the surface, and now i want to go ahead and protect it.
i'm gonna take some jetseal. this is our jetseal paint sealant, the paint sealant is designed to last oneyear. you can pick it up on our website: where you can pick up the world's greatestdetailing products. we make all of our detailing products righthere in the usa. they're made in america for made-in-americaquality. i'm using a microfiber towel, i don't feelthe need to use an applicator pad because i'm only using one tiny dot.
i'll spread it on the surface. i'm not gonna seal the whole trunk becausematt might polish the rest of the trunk later. so i'm just gonna seal up that one area soit's protected against water spots, contamination, or any type ofnasty stuff that can hurt the paint. i'll let this sit for 20 minutes, that's howlong you let jetseal sit before you remove it. then i'll come back, buff it off, and showyou those fantastic results. we'll see you in a moment. now we're back after 20 minutes and the jetsealis dry. i'll take a microfiber towel and buff offthe jetseal.
since we put a nice thin coat on, it cameoff easily. check out how cool that looks. the whole back of the car looks completelydifferent! we have all the badges removed.. this main badge can't be removed because there'sa big hole right there, but we removed the "passat" badge and the"2.0 turbo" badge, and the whole back of the car looks stealth,awesome, and mean! this is how professionals remove badges. you don't have to use plastic razor blades,
you don't have to use harsh chemicals likealcohol, or gasoline, or any type of glue remover. all you need is some dental floss, a heat gun, chemical guys nonsense, and some light v36 polish on a machine, orby hand. i like to do it by machine because its fast,it's easy, and we'll get the best results we can. if you have any questions, check out our website: that's where you can pick up everything weused,
and the world's best detailing products. we make everything from polishes, cleaners,degreasers, specialty car wax, and even waterless detailing products thatsave the planet. plus you can get the best prices anytime withshipping around all 50 states. if you want to check out the rest of our videos,we have 500+ videos on youtube. subscribe. learn how to detail anything and check outthe coolest stuff right here on youtube! if you want to learn anything more,
always remember: have fun, stay clean, and keep on detailing!
so the whole car looks completely sleek, andit gives a whole different look to the car. some vehicles can have the badges removed, and i'm gonna show you an easy way to do that. a couple things before we get started de-badging: first of all, not all cars can be de-badged. some cars actually have holes behind the badgesto line up the badges as the car is being assembled. i can't remove the badges on my mustang'sfender because underneath those badges are two holes to alignthe badge.
some cars don't have those alignment holes, like this passat. the passat has no alignment holes on the back, these are like a sticker on top of the paint. every car is different, so if you want to find out about your car'sbadges and if they can be removed, i recommend you look at a factory manual tosee if the badges have holes on the back, or you can check out an internet forum foryour car and ask questions there. either way, you can get a good answer.
but i'll tell you: do this job with caution! sometimes these badges can't be removed. if they can, they'll come off fine, but sometimes if the car has been repaintedand you remove the badge, there will be a "shadow" behind it. this car has never been repainted, so it's a perfect candidate to have the badgesremoved. to remove the badges, i'm gonna be using someregular dental floss to pull off the badges. you can use piano wire, fishing line, or atype of string.
i'm gonna use dental floss because i was ableto pick some up during lunch. i'm also going to use a heat gun. we picked up this heat gun from the store,you can get these relatively cheap. this will heat up the badge to loosen theglue on the backside, and allow me to pull off the badge. if you don't have a heat gun, you can let your car sit out in the sun aroundnoon or early afternoon, but i recommend you use a heat gun for a professionaljob. you can pick these up for $15-20 at your localhardware store.
when i remove the badges, there's gonna bea shadow. the paint around the badge is fading at adifferent rate than the paint underneath the badge. this car is a few years old, it has about90,000 miles on the clock. that means the paint on the outside is fadingmore than the paint under the badges. so i'm gonna have to polish the surface. when i'm done, i'll use a porter cable 7424xpdual action polisher with a 3'' backing plate. i'm also going to use one of our chemicalguys microfiber cutting pads. and i'll probably use v36 optical grade cuttingpolish to restore the finish underneath.
like i said, this service is a professionaljob, so if you're looking to do this on your car, make sure you have the skills to do this, and make sure you understand the risk thatthe badges might not come off. i explained the risks to matt, matt understandsthe risk, so we're gonna get started and de-badge thiscar! the best time to de-badge a car is when it'sbrand new. the paint is not discolored around or underneaththe badge, and the badge actually comes off a lot easier. here's what we're gonna do..
the first thing i'll do is remove the actualletters. now i'm gonna do this using the floss andthe heat gun. i'll first heat up the letters of the badgewith the heat gun, then pull them off using the floss. let's turn on the heat gun, let it heat upfor a moment.. this is a professional grade heat gun, itgets really hot! i'll start going.. i don't want to put the heat gun too close, if i get too close i can actually hurt thepaint,
so i'll be gentle on the badges. i'm feeling the badges to make sure i'm notgetting them too hot before i go peel them off. it's getting really hot! i'll turn down my heat gun a little bit.. gently heat it up. stay away from tail lights, you don't wantto overheat the plastic. let's try working off the badges.. i'll take some dental floss,
we're using mint dental floss for this one,any type will work. just wrap it around your hands, and gently start sliding under the badge. and look! there we go, we got one off... two off... three off... four.. five...
there we go! all six letters came off real easy! you see how easy the letters came off! now we have the problem of the glue residue. there's a couple things you can do with theglue. you can heat it up and rub it off with yourfingers, which i'll try at first, and i'll actually use a microfiber towel forthis. you see how easily the badges came off!
i'll heat it up a little bit again... this is the trickiest part about the de-badging. i'm gonna try working off the glue with amicrofiber towel so i don't scratch the surface. there we go! boom. pretty cool, huh? after i use this microfiber towel for this,i'll probably throw it away since it has all this glue inside. but you notice i'm pulling off all the gluewith no problem. now i'll use a little chemical guys nonsense,our odor-free and color-free super cleaner.
you can pick it up right on our website: chemicalguys.com i'll take a little bit and rub it on the surface. now i'm not too worried about rubbing hardbecause i'm actually going to polish the surface after. look at the difference we're already getting! we are pulling off that badge like it's nothing! i'm using nonsense because i know it won'tstain the paint. it wont harm the surface, and it's safe onthe surface as well.
some people like to use plastic razor blades, there's another video online that talks aboutusing plastic razor blades. i don't recommend to use plastic razor bladesbecause even plastic razor blades can scratch paint. here at chemical guys we want to give youthe best method to do this, that won't harm your car, and that will give the best results. that's why we make these videos just for you! i got one letter off.
i'll go ahead and heat up the other lettersso i can remove those as well. if you get them nice and hot, they pull offeffortlessly. this one is being a little more stubborn... there we go. once we break the seal, it pulls right off. we're getting that "a" off like it's nothing! be careful so you don't burn yourself, you don't want to get these too hot. i know a lot of people have done these, you'redealing with a heat gun,
this is more advanced detailing. be careful so you don't burn yourself. don't get the paint too hot. we want you guys to remember safety firstwhen you're doing this type of job. nonsense is doing a great job pulling offthe excess glue. i used to like to use glue remover, but i noticed over time that it can harm thepaint, or harm other surfaces and stain plastic, so i don't use glue remover anymore. i just like to use chemical guys nonsense,which does a great job.
i got two letters down. now i'll take my time and get the other fourletters, so watch on camera, i'll have the camera guyskeep rolling. let me take my time and get the job done. there we go... okay guys, we have completely removed the"passat" badge. it's really easy to do. that's the coolestthing! i'm a little sweaty, this heat gun is reallyhot. we're ready to go ahead and do the polishing.
first i'm going to remove both badges, the "passat" and the "2.0t," which is theengine size so it's a completely badgeless look, exceptfor the vw emblem. now i don't think you can see this on camera, but there's what's called a "shadow." the paint around the badges has faded a littlebit. this is a metallic black, and black discolorsa little bit in the sun. i need to match that because the color wherethe passat logo was is darker than the rest of the car.
but i'm going to easily be able to correctthat using v36 and a microfiber pad. if not, i'll be able to color sand it andmake it look clean. before i do that, i'll de-badge the otherside now so i can put my heat gun away. i'll grab some more floss and pull it rightoff. see you in a moment! i'm almost done removing the last bit fromthis badge, it comes off real easy. you'll notice i'm using no heavy cleaners,no glue removers, just nonsense, an all-purpose cleaner.
nonsense is available on our website: it can clean carpet, it can clean paintwork,it can clean wheels and tires. it's color-free and odorless, and it doesnot hurt the surface. i want to take my time and get all the glueoff so when i go to polish, it'll be super easy to do. sometimes glue is more stubborn than others. this car has some years on it. it's not brand new, so the glue has had someyears to settle into the paintwork. i'll heat it up a little bit more to finishit off.
i've done this job on high end porsches, gtrs and skylines from japan, and this job looks very good. it looks good on subaru stis or wrxs. so if you have a subaru and you want to takeoff the badges on the trunk, this works great because subaru doesn't useholes in those letters. you just have to make sure there's no holesunder the badges on your vehicle, which is kind of difficult to do. you can consult internet chat groups or ownersclubs about the car.
you can talk to body shops, or look onlinefor the answer. we're almost done with this side... therewe go. cool. we got all the glue off, and the 2.0t badgeis gone! the paintwork is not harmed in any way. now i'm going to polish the surface to makesure i don't have any ghosting. now ghosting is really hard to see on thecamera, even though it's black paint. it's super hard to see. even for me to see, i have to look at theright angle and get very close to see the ghosting.
i'll still show you how to remove the ghosting. i'll move to the other side that used to say"passat" and i'll use a small cutting pad with somepolish to restore the surface. let's move to the other side. let's finish this job off to get a nice proresult on de-badging this car! i'll take some blue painter's tape and tapeup the tail light right here because i want to polish right up to the light,and i don't want to touch the tail light. matt actually corrected the tail lights, sothey're already swirl-free and i don't want to mess them up.
so i'm gonna put a few pieces of tape on thebottom of the light so i can polish right up to it with the buffer. now i'll grab my porter cable 7424xp. i took the 5'' backing plate off and equippedit with one of our brand new torq 3'' backing plates. it's super flexible, and it'll get right intothis tight spot. now this backing plate, the porter cable,nonsense, and any other products we used on this videoare available at our website: we have the best pricing and deals on ourproducts!
i'll be using some polish as well... i'll take my 4'' microfiber cutting pad, seeit has the chemical guys logo on the back, and attach it right to the backing plate. that gives me the perfect amount of surfacearea to polish this car. i'm going to use our v36. if i need more cutting power, i can easilybump it up to v34. i've got v34, v32 compound, and v38. this is a available in a pack on our website: where you can pick up all of our polishes,
all of our compounds that use the highest technology to get thejob done. i'm gonna take some v36, and i'm gonna makethe cutting power better on this pad by using a big 'x' and i'll take my finger and rub it into thepad. this is priming the brand new pad. from our experience, this vw paint is harderthan most paints, so we want the full cutting power to removethe ghosting. we're not polishing heavy to remove swirls,
the swirls are already gone, we're just fixing the ghosting. i'll give it a quick polish on speed setting1 and 6 to restore the finish. i'll put down my machine, grab a microfibertowel to inspect the surface. see if the ghosting is still there... and there we go, the ghosting is completelygone! it's like the badge was never there! it's like the badge didn't even come fromthe factory. that's a complete professional removal, andthat's the result we want you to get.
i'll hop over to the other side and removethe 2.0t ghosting, and i'll put a little wax or sealant on thecar to protect it from any type of damage. so i'll move to the other side, do it, and then we'll put some wax on. now that we've removed the badge and we polishedit out, we have a perfect true result. we removed any shadowing effect that the badgesleft on the surface, and now i want to go ahead and protect it.
i'm gonna take some jetseal. this is our jetseal paint sealant, the paint sealant is designed to last oneyear. you can pick it up on our website: where you can pick up the world's greatestdetailing products. we make all of our detailing products righthere in the usa. they're made in america for made-in-americaquality. i'm using a microfiber towel, i don't feelthe need to use an applicator pad because i'm only using one tiny dot.
i'll spread it on the surface. i'm not gonna seal the whole trunk becausematt might polish the rest of the trunk later. so i'm just gonna seal up that one area soit's protected against water spots, contamination, or any type ofnasty stuff that can hurt the paint. i'll let this sit for 20 minutes, that's howlong you let jetseal sit before you remove it. then i'll come back, buff it off, and showyou those fantastic results. we'll see you in a moment. now we're back after 20 minutes and the jetsealis dry. i'll take a microfiber towel and buff offthe jetseal.
since we put a nice thin coat on, it cameoff easily. check out how cool that looks. the whole back of the car looks completelydifferent! we have all the badges removed.. this main badge can't be removed because there'sa big hole right there, but we removed the "passat" badge and the"2.0 turbo" badge, and the whole back of the car looks stealth,awesome, and mean! this is how professionals remove badges. you don't have to use plastic razor blades,
you don't have to use harsh chemicals likealcohol, or gasoline, or any type of glue remover. all you need is some dental floss, a heat gun, chemical guys nonsense, and some light v36 polish on a machine, orby hand. i like to do it by machine because its fast,it's easy, and we'll get the best results we can. if you have any questions, check out our website: that's where you can pick up everything weused,
and the world's best detailing products. we make everything from polishes, cleaners,degreasers, specialty car wax, and even waterless detailing products thatsave the planet. plus you can get the best prices anytime withshipping around all 50 states. if you want to check out the rest of our videos,we have 500+ videos on youtube. subscribe. learn how to detail anything and check outthe coolest stuff right here on youtube! if you want to learn anything more,
always remember: have fun, stay clean, and keep on detailing!
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