Badge Removal Advice

[ChimpOnGas]

Hi all,

Can anyone offer me advice on removing this type of TVR specialist badge?



For understandable reasons I'd like to remove it from my car.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

It's the adhesive type but I don't just want to pull it off as I fear damaging my paint, I already have a number of nasty bare drill holes in my engine may put there by the same installers when they fitted my cheap no name MaP sensor and their failed Canems controlled fan relay set up, so I want to proceed with caution when I remove their advertising badge they stuck on my car.

Any advice on helping me remove this badge so I don't end up with any more paint and body work damage to my TVR would be gratefully received.

Thanks, Dave.

[robsco]

I'd approach with a heat gun from the top and then very carefully try to lift with a trim tool.

[Classic Chim]

^^^^^^^^ what he says, maybe a good quality hair dryer would loosen up the bond enough to get it off and on you go from there.
Sad to see this mind

[ou sont les biscuits]

Whether you damage the paint depends I suppose on what the sticker on stuck it on with!

I have some sticky label remover stuff from maplins which I'd try in the first instance. It has never damaged any surface I've used it on. Spray round the edges, then a piece of fishing line under the edge of the badge and work it around until the badge is off. Spraying under the badge as it lifts.

As Maplins is no more, I don't know what I'll do when I run out, but someone else must make a similar product.

If you do lift the paint, find another badge to stick over the affected bit. TVR rocker cover badge. Mobil 1 sticker. Loads of options.

[pac1uk]

Floss or fishing line behind label to break the bond, its not clear if its just a sticker or proper badge. The remaining adhesive can be removed with acetone

[ChimpOnGas]

pac1uk said:

Floss or fishing line behind label to break the bond, its not clear if its just a sticker or proper badge. The remaining adhesive can be removed with acetone

Thanks all, I like the fishing line idea particularly, I had considered using heat but as the engine bay gets pretty hot and the damn badge is clearly stuck firm or it would have lifted itself by now, so I figured its likely going to take more than just heat to get rid of it.

For the record its not a proper badge and it would seem neither were the services that came with it, this and the 11 other reasons listed here are why it must go!

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I will not be blamed for the poor workmanship and errors of those I supported on these pages for many years and paid good money to, so I most certainly will not have their advertising stuck to my car along with all the other holes they crudely drilled in my engine bay.

Thanks for your help chaps

[ianwayne]

How about just putting a sticker or another TVR badge on top of it?

Edited by ianwayne on Sunday 4th August 13:29

[ChimpOnGas]

ianwayne said:

How about just putting a sticker or another TVR badge on top of it?

Or one from someone who doesnt start blaming their customer for things that customer never touched

[InitialDave]

For removing the residue left behind, WD40 to soften and remove the majority of it, then some IPA of acetome etc to get the last bits and any remaining WD40 greasiness is often a good approach.

[ChimpOnGas]

InitialDave said:

For removing the residue left behind, WD40 to soften and remove the majority of it, then some IPA of acetome etc to get the last bits and any remaining WD40 greasiness is often a good approach.

Good call InitialDave, great tips

WD40 inst really an oil as such, but I've found it at least the equal if not better than the specific sticky stuff remover products.

Thanks.

[rigga]

WD40 is great at cleaning lots of stuff, and I'd go with the above suggested fishing line, and acetone to remove the last bits too.

[lancepar]

Mask round it and spray it out.

[trumpet1608]

Ambersil Label Remover has worked well in the past for me.

Hope this helps

Dick

[TwinKam]

And what are people paying for this cleverly marketed wünderprodukt 'Sticky Label Remover'?
Brake Cleaner... that's all it is... available everywhere, cheap as chips and great for cleaning/ decreasing everything as it's pretty much the universal solvent when water doesn't work