Front TVR Badge Removal

[david010167]

Has anyone taken the front TVR badge off a Griff.

I have just been trying to work it out, but could not see how it is done. I cannot see it from the inside, but if I slide my hand in from the front opening above the number plate, I can feel two pointy things, that are in the right position, but cannot feel any bolts or such like.

BTW: there is a squidgy oil coated thing in the way (air filter?), you can guess that engines are not my most knowledgeable subject. Anyway, the foam object is a long cylinder type shape, and from the inside it looks like it is protected by a bit of drainpipe artfully cut to shape.

Is it possible to get the badge off without damage?

It is a 1995 Griff 500 if it makes a difference.

Thanks

David M5 TVR

[apache]

open the bonnet, you'll see a black pipe running to that air cleaner box you were on about, remove the jubilee clip that holds the pipe on, under that is a largish nut that holds the air box on, undo that, remove the airbox and you'll have access to the 2 nuts that hold the badge on. You can do it with the airbox in place but it is a bitch of a job and you 'll need a bunch of spare nuts

[david010167]

Thanks, I will give it ago in the next couple of days.

I am touching up some chips, and I have one right next to the badge so I thought it would be easier to blend the chip in if I could get the badge off.

David

[beano1197]

....and replace the badge with one of Leven's super-duper jobbies?

"Oooh, suits you, sir......"

[simpo one]

Only TVR...

..could make a car where you have to remove the air-filter to take the bonnet badge off.

[lrussell5]

dont laugh. ever tried changing the plugs on a 964? First, drain the aircon circuit......

[apache]

or change a handbrake cable on a xantia, remove dashboard, remove centre console, remove exhaust......french crap, and in a car designed by Bertone apparently

[lrussell5]

cheaper to throw away arent they?

[david010167]

I am thinking about the badges as well, currently I have the standard silver things, and think that the gold will look good on Starmist Blue.

David

[Toffer]

David, I guess you must be talking about your Lexus?

[richb]

[david010167]

Lexus, good god no, I want something tastfull, I want to look as cool as those Nova boys with there tasty chrome and gold work, I may even fit a few tubes under the car to light up the ground at night, coupled with a couple of holes drilled in the bonnet for some cool blue washer lights, I think the Griff would look the dogs doodas.



David M5 TVR