Heat gun or hair dryer and dental floss or fishing line.  Heat up the badge,
or park the car so the sun warms it for a some time.  Carefully take the
string of choice and saw back and forth cutting the double face tape.  Work
around the pins as much as possible.  Since your painting, hit with the
random orbit and your good to go.  Or use some Goo Gone or wax and grease
remover to clean up the glue if your not painting.  Buff the surface and
rewax, if you paint was super oxidized, it should make.  If you paint has
oxidized/faded, get ready to do some buffing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben T [mailto:BenTbtstr8@AOL.COM]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:12 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Removing Badging question

In a message dated 7/29/02 12:41:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Malcolm.Stebbins@MSVU.CA writes:

<< Can anyone please tell me how to go about removing the badges
 without breaking them.  I looked at the under (interior) side and
 there are no metal rings/clips or anything holding the badges on, just
 looks like plastic pushed in through a hole and maybe then melted
 to hold the badges in place.  Thanks,  Malcolm >>

Malcolm,

The emblems are held in place primarily by double sided adhesive trim tape.
Probably 3M. There are small studs which are then pushed onto plastic
grommets. That is all. You can carefully pry the emblems off. I find they
are
much easier to remove on a warn sunny day. The adhesive gets a bit softer
then. The studs in back are most likely used to locate the nameplate
properly
more than any other purpose (IMHO).

BenT
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