Hello,

I debadged my car, but there are post holes left over. I've asked a few friends who do body work and received different answers. I was told by one person the whole front and rear bumpers will need to be filled and the entire panel repainted, another told me it would be possible to fill the holes, and repaint the area. I love how the car looks without badges, but another grand just to lose the badges isn't worth it to me, especially in the middle of my single turbo build. These panels have both been repainted two years ago when I was rear ended and slid into a pickup truck in front of me.

 

From my experience, it could be filled and painted too look good, but if you want perfect you will need to re-spray the whole panel.

Ceylon

 

Too bad you didn't dump the badges then. If it's that fresh I would go with the least amount of painting of the filled holes. Then if it turns out bad, tell the guy now he has to paint both bumpers completely. Personally, I like the badges. Nobody knows what kind of car it is anyway.

 

Most painters will opt to paint the entire panel that is being touched up. That's just how most will work. If you do a small spot like that, the paint might not match the rest of the panel (rear bumper) well.

I slightly debadged my first FD. I put Efini emblems, but removed "mazda" and "RX-7". After removing "Mazda", I saw there were small holes for that emblem like that of the chrome mazda logo emblems. I covered mine up with a Greddy badge that came with my exhaust. Just an idea...

 

John, you can pick up the RX-7 Efini Nameplate from RP, it will cover up the holes in the rear nicely:

http://www.rx7.com/store/rx7/fdexterior.html

 

Off topic, but how did you remove all the glue and whatnot from your bumper? I had my badges stolen a couple weeks back and have not come up with a good way to get it off without pulling the paint too.

 

ever get parking tickets for a silver "greddy"? I got one once on my first rx7 that was missing the mazda badge (nobody can identify the old logo) that said Toyota RX7, got it dropped cuz there's no such thing. Also a guy I know has a bronco that he painted to look like an old WW2 fighter with shark teeth, and he took an old ranger badge and removed the R, he got a parking ticket for a ford anger, got that dropped too.
Yes, Lincoln has stupid parking *****

this was one of two things I would suggest, the other being find the closest trade school that teaches automotive body work, they SHOULD only charge you for materials, that's how the one 15 minutes from Lincoln does it. My buddy had his entire LS1 camaro repainted for 300 something.

 

I used a heat gun with a microfiber towel. I heated the glue until hot, being careful to not bubble the paint, then rubbed it off eventually.

I do like the alternate badges but my goal was to debadge the car completely. I prefer the clean look. Are there any ways to match the paint electronically?