Help! How do you take gold plating off of emblems/badges?
11-08-2005, 12:33 PM
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Help! How do you take gold plating off of emblems/badges?
Need to know how to take gold plating off my TL. The dealer just plated the chrome OEM grill and badges, but I'm not a big fan of the gold. The gold plating has already corroded, so I want it back to the original chrome. I don't really want to spend money to buy new badges. Any ideas would help.
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11-08-2005, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by MegaKillTron
yeah im stuck with gold too. I think it was like a couple hundred to add the gold package onto the car when it was brandnew
11-08-2005, 01:55 PM
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the only options you have are to paint them (body color) or to buy the chrome ones.
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11-08-2005, 02:14 PM
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Yeah I doubt you'd end up with anything good once you've stripped the gold plating. I think if you had them sandblasted and repainted body color it would look hot.
11-08-2005, 02:18 PM
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Don't think it's possible to remove just the gold. The "chrome" would come off with it. If you don't want to spring for chrome, try painting them body color or black. I'd recommend the outer trim and emblem FPR and the wings black. Like this:
11-08-2005, 03:15 PM
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after looking at those 2 pics for a while, I like the second one with the body color painted grill and black A. The first one looks like rudolph the red nosed reindeer.
11-08-2005, 03:20 PM
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leaving the chrome wing doesnt look bad either
11-08-2005, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by fsttyms1
leaving the chrome wing doesnt look bad either
Yeah I actually thought about that but he'd have to buy the chrome wing.
11-08-2005, 06:32 PM
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Any idea what a shop would charge to do that?
How do you think the wings would look if they were also red?
Now what do I do with the back end, the emblems are all gold trimed? just leave them gold. Most would probably say just to debadge the back, but I don't know it I really want to do that.
How do you think the wings would look if they were also red?
Now what do I do with the back end, the emblems are all gold trimed? just leave them gold. Most would probably say just to debadge the back, but I don't know it I really want to do that.
11-08-2005, 07:45 PM
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alright Redevil, cuz I'm a nice guy I was lookin thru my old recipts for you........
I had ordered some type-s emblems off ebay from an ACTUAL ACURA DEALER for my side panels and got them real cheap, like half the price of what the dealers around here wanted. ( and they were in factory packaging brand new honda part)
Go on ebay and look for Acura of Escondido. It's in California.
www.stores.ebay.com/acuraofescondidoparts
They have the best deals on emblems on ebay. Brand new plus you get the acura warrenty on them. If you don't see the part your looking for, just call and ask to speak to Scott Edwards. His name is on my Acura recipt that he sent with my emblems.
When you get your chrome emblems/and or wings just pop the gold ones off. Or take it to your dealer and have them put them on for ya.
Hope that helps......... keep us posted.........holla
I had ordered some type-s emblems off ebay from an ACTUAL ACURA DEALER for my side panels and got them real cheap, like half the price of what the dealers around here wanted. ( and they were in factory packaging brand new honda part)
Go on ebay and look for Acura of Escondido. It's in California.
www.stores.ebay.com/acuraofescondidoparts
They have the best deals on emblems on ebay. Brand new plus you get the acura warrenty on them. If you don't see the part your looking for, just call and ask to speak to Scott Edwards. His name is on my Acura recipt that he sent with my emblems.
When you get your chrome emblems/and or wings just pop the gold ones off. Or take it to your dealer and have them put them on for ya.
Hope that helps......... keep us posted.........holla
11-08-2005, 08:56 PM
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hmm...
to tell u the truth, the gold looks pretty nice with the red
this is the second color i saw that the gold looked good with
the best color to have the gold kit with has to be black
to tell u the truth, the gold looks pretty nice with the red
this is the second color i saw that the gold looked good with
the best color to have the gold kit with has to be black
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