Frowned upon? ...

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:27 pm

Is it frowned upon to debadge the rear of the car? (Just checking with you guys first)

I will probably remove the 2 litre lettering at the back as I think it only entices the local riffraff...
Also may save it from getting nicked on the continent whilst on our roadtrip

Is there an easy way to go about doing this? Without damaging the paintwork etc, because obviously they have been stuck on there for agesssss...

Ta,

Ian

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:37 pm

Nah mate, I know Rich Pruen's is debadged for one. Get a hairdryer to melt the glue and use a scraper. I think it's stuck onto the window, so you should be ok with the paintwork. I debadged the front of mine, using the hairdryer/ credit card method.

aibast · Post by **aibast** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:45 am

There is no point in debbdgeing 480's cos I think the car is so different that most gearheads know what it is

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Thu May 17, 2007 7:29 am

aibast wrote:There is no point in debbdgeing 480's cos I think the car is so different that most gearheads know what it is

Not the chavs and the happy go lucky lads...

They see its got a 2litre, they see the age and they'll try to crash it into a wall or two.

Ian

pol · Post by **pol** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:57 am

The 2.0l badge isn't on the glass, it's under the clusters yah?

I removed my 'catalyser' badge. Didn't like it, and had smashed the cat through anyway.

I say it's ok as it's not on all 480's anyway...

I've also removed the badge on the nosecone. I think it looks out of place, but it may go back one day.

Might even try with no badges at all but I can't quite bring myself to remove something that says 'Turbo'!

Chavs dont want your car! - If only they had a little taste... They'd rather take the 1.2 Corsa with the flipin nice paint job and the bumper from a megane hanging off the front.

pol

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:04 am

Yeah the 2litre badge is on the paintwork underneath the clusters.

Ian

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Thu May 17, 2007 3:41 pm

I was going to simply "re-badge" my car recently...

The idea John Turbo came up with sounded best to me.

Use the 480 badge from a Renault Magnum 480 bhp truck.Its the same font or lettering style as the later 440s and 460s.

Use a Turbo badge from a Porsche 997,the chrome scripty looking one..

Then you have a Renualt badge and a Porsche one,2 honest links to the 480!

Didnt do it but will one day...

Steve

Joolz · Post by **Joolz** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:32 pm

wear your badge with pride young maaaaan

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:38 pm

I'm going to leave the Volvo front and back lettering as well as the 480ES.

But I think that the 2litre could be a little tempting to some twerp, despite the diminutive size of the lettering. It's already had an attempted break-in with absolutely nothing in the car...

Just making sure it is easy enough to get off

Ian

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Sun May 20, 2007 3:47 pm

As I didn't want to post a new topic, and I want to get it right without sounding gay/camp)

where is the best place to put the GB sticker on the back of the 480?

ian

98kellrs · Post by **98kellrs** » Sun May 20, 2007 4:58 pm

Mines just to the left of the boot handle, but dunno about the 'best'. wherever looks good to you i guess! I highly reccommend blu-tac'ing it in various places to test though

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Sun May 20, 2007 5:13 pm

I wasn't quite expecting an answer as sensible as that

Will have a mess around once I've gotten my 2litre badge off.

Ian

Website · Post by **coyote1980** » Sun May 20, 2007 5:57 pm

If you want to prevent chavs from taking and ruining it: put a 1.4D badge on it

98kellrs · Post by **98kellrs** » Sun May 20, 2007 10:34 pm

I was considering that actually! It could be good for surprising people on the motorways...

Website · Post by **coyote1980** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:40 pm

98kellrs wrote:I was considering that actually! It could be good for surprising people on the motorways...

Especially when you hand it over to a friend, who looks at the tailgate before filling the car up after borrowing it...

No worries: who would these days take the effort to fill it up for you

guitarcarfanatic · Post by **guitarcarfanatic** » Mon May 21, 2007 7:51 pm

coyote1980 wrote:
98kellrs wrote:I was considering that actually! It could be good for surprising people on the motorways...
Especially when you hand it over to a friend, who looks at the tailgate before filling the car up after borrowing it...

No worries: who would these days take the effort to fill it up for you

Funny story - The guy I sold my old Blue turbo to thought it was a diesel! It was flashing red when I sold it to him and he went and put Ã‚Â£5.00 of Diesel in it. The car still ran, albeit lumpy! He got home, realised his mistake and then drove it back to the petrol station and filled up with petrol. I can't believe it still ran though! It must of been a 30% petrol/70% diesel mix and it still took him the 4 miles home an dthen 4 miles back to the station! Car runs fine now too!

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:00 pm

guitarcarfanatic wrote:
coyote1980 wrote:
98kellrs wrote:I was considering that actually! It could be good for surprising people on the motorways...
Especially when you hand it over to a friend, who looks at the tailgate before filling the car up after borrowing it...

No worries: who would these days take the effort to fill it up for you
Funny story - The guy I sold my old Blue turbo to thought it was a diesel! It was flashing red when I sold it to him and he went and put Ã‚Â£5.00 of Diesel in it. The car still ran, albeit lumpy! He got home, realised his mistake and then drove it back to the petrol station and filled up with petrol. I can't believe it still ran though! It must of been a 30% petrol/70% diesel mix and it still took him the 4 miles home an dthen 4 miles back to the station! Car runs fine now too!

Hahaaaa! Bet his missus was impressed... turns up with his new car billowing thick black smoke out the arse-end.

98kellrs · Post by **98kellrs** » Mon May 21, 2007 8:26 pm

lol Does the 480 look like a diesel?!?

aibast · Post by **aibast** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:23 pm

actualy you can use diesel to free up siesed or a bit stuch oilrings and compression rings. For that you would need to inject some diesel fuel in to the intake while the cars running. On carby engines it's easy but on turbiinjections I think it could be done via vacumehose or something like that.

SMOOTH 480 · Post by **SMOOTH 480** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:25 pm

mines completley de-badged ! brought it like it and i must say it gives the car a very street sleeper look as chavs in there paxo's and corsa's dont have a clue what just left them behind off the line and through the bends

i love the look on there faces when they screech up next to me at the next set of lights

you can almost see the bite marks on the steering wheels