Was thinking of loosing the "TL" and "Acura" on my 04 dgp. Would it be likely that there would be any fading or difference in paint under the badges? I bought it with 65,000ish miles on it, Now has 72,000. Thoughts?

 

i doubt it, unless the car was REALLY faded. mine had 10 years on the paint and had NO paint difference. you just have to use alot of effore and get ALL the glue off. if it doesnt come off on the first day, get some goo gone and treat it every day till its gone. b careful though, goo gone eats paint if you leave it on. check the DIY too. good luck, it will look nice

 

i debadged my 03 tl-s a year later
it left a perfect print from no exposure,
but it faded soon after.

 

Not sure I understand your wording. Are you saying it left a print but faded once it was in the sun for ___ days? Please restate. Thanks

 

Not sure I understand your wording. Are you saying it left a print but faded once it was in the sun for ___ days? Please restate. Thanks

And I think the previous owner had it garaged because it looks like there is an imprint on the visor from a door opener.

 

Also I think the previous owner had it garaged because it looks like there is a garage door opener imprint on the visor.

 

Just take off the badge! Unless there is paint damage in the area, or significant fadage, it will be fine with some good buffing after de-badging.

Use dental floss to get behind the badge and work it in there like you're using a hand-powered chain saw. After the badge is removed, use Goo-Gone or similar product to remove sticky residue. After the residue is totally gone, then you can use a cleaner wax and buff it out!

 

I just bought and 04 WDP TL with 53k miles about a month ago. I debadged it and it definitely looks good. The only thing is if you really look at the spot you can still see a little bit of the outline of the "Acura" and "TL". Honestly nobody ever realizes it until I point it out to them, but me knowing where the emblems were I do. I'll be honest its really not a big deal and it seems like slowly but surely its becoming less and less visible. I think it shows more because my car is white though.

 

The key as mentioned above- is to use a cleaner wax, and then polish
Do the whole car with regular claybar or liquid claybar and color cleaner then synthetic wax, and stand back with your shades on. You wont see anything but a new car finish~

 

When I did mine, when it was clean, you couldn't tell.

But when a light coat of dust collected on the rear, then you could see it. Several passes with cleaner wax and waxing eventually got rid of it.

This was after a year, garage kept.

 

exactly

 

that happened to me before.
wax helps

 

Thanks for the replies guys, i'm going to do it tomorrow. Ill post how it goes with before and after pictures too of corse.

 

I made it naked, got rid of Acura & TL, left the center A logo on...no fading, no issues, removed them with dental floss etc and wax

 

All done, just finished it up. Looks really clean, doesn't appear to be any sign of the now gone badges. Ill post pics in a new thread tomorrow.