Upbadging Eliminated
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While it's usually frowned upon to upbadge your vehicle, I hold an exception if the upbadge is obnoxious. For example, the wife's Chrysler 200 has Hellcat badges. That rules. But cobra badges on a non-cobra Mustang?
To bring you up to speed, my '98 GT had a cobra bumper put on and professionally rattle canned by the previous owner. Even had a cobra badge to match.
Look at that overspray!!
Me being me, and always wanting to do something different, I couldn't settle on the basic silver or black Mustang badge.
BBBBOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG
Found a hydro dip company that specialized in Mustang badging. HydroDun LLC. They have a huge variety of patterns & colors to choose from. The price premium wasn't too bad either. A standard pony badge runs anywhere from $30-$40. This one was $70 out the door-shipping and all. I'm not familiar with how much the hydro dip process costs to operate, but it seemed reasonable to me. And because I'm a sucker for the stars & stripes, I had to go with this pattern:
Muuuuuch better. Now to clean up those headlights.
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@i86hotdogs So are you saying I should festoon the 328i with M badges?
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@e90m3 ewwwwwwwwwww. Better yet, AMG Badges!
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@e90m3 oh how I wish I still had McPower decals for you
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@krustywantout I wouldn't seriously put an M badge on a non M car, but an AMG badge as a joke, now that would be comical.
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@i86hotdogs said in Upbadging Eliminated:
Look at that overspray!!this is heinous! Do you think you'll be able to actually get that off or will you just get new lights?
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@e90m3 Or Barabus but AMG would be hilarious. You would just piss off both Merc and BMW fanbois.
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Nice addition!
This car needs some of those Subaru-style activity badges. I searched around and found a really sad lack of knockoffs out there.
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@e90m3 said in Upbadging Eliminated:
@i86hotdogs So are you saying I should festoon the 328i with M badges?
dinan, probably. or, go the other way and get some 318ti badges
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@ash78 needs something classier, like this:
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@e90m3 I've never seen it with the pictograms, that's perfect. You cast a wider net for illiterate people that way
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@i86hotdogs should just put the hellcat badge on the mustang. And the cobra one on the 200!
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@e90m3 BLASPHEMY
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@tysmagic Can of denatured alcohol might do the trick. If not, I'll find a set somewhere
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@krustywantout my vote is Maybach badges
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@i86hotdogs Pretty sure I need a GTR badge for the van....
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@i86hotdogs said in Upbadging Eliminated:
While it's usually frowned upon to upbadge your vehicle, I hold an exception if the upbadge is obnoxious. For example, the wife's Chrysler 200 has Hellcat badges. That rules. But cobra badges on a non-cobra Mustang?
Even better, badges from competing brands. Such as (stuff I've seen myself) a 1st-gen Ford Escape SS, or an SRT Cruze.
I'd have to admit I kinda want to add Type-R badges to my truck...
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@e90m3 said in Upbadging Eliminated:
@krustywantout I wouldn't seriously put an M badge on a non M car, but an AMG badge as a joke, now that would be comical.
I once saw a 1st-gen Fusion with an M badge... flipped upside down. A Fusion W.
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@Smallbear I had one on my Explorer Sport when I was in high school, as a joke. My friends gave it to me for my 18th birthday. I still have the badge.
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@i86hotdogs Ah, that's better! And I see no need to lose the Cobra bumper, as it's nowhere near as much of a misrepresentation as the emblem was. That badge had to go, though!
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@e90m3 said in Upbadging Eliminated:
@i86hotdogs So are you saying I should festoon the 328i with M badges?
Alpina...
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Honestly, upon seeing the normal view...I thought it was a zebra. -
@i86hotdogs Oh now that is FANTASTIC!
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A 328i you say? Now that would be the perfect candidate for something really kinky... like replica EMW badges.
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@ash78 I really didn't think it needed clarification, but here we are
