Upbadging Eliminated

[ash78]

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.

Making Tire Smoke?
Dropping Panties?
Stepping on Snek?

That front bumper is an atrocity -- I can't believe they didn't even take it off the car first!

[dejock]

@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

[e90m3]

@ash78 needs something classier, like this:

[ash78]

@e90m3 I've never seen it with the pictograms, that's perfect. You cast a wider net for illiterate people that way

#PeakMustang

[Qaaaaa]

@i86hotdogs should just put the hellcat badge on the mustang. And the cobra one on the 200!

[i86hotdogs]

@e90m3 BLASPHEMY

[i86hotdogs]

@tysmagic Can of denatured alcohol might do the trick. If not, I'll find a set somewhere

[i86hotdogs]

@krustywantout my vote is Maybach badges

[Long_Voyager94]

@i86hotdogs Pretty sure I need a GTR badge for the van....

[Smallbear]

@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...

[Smallbear]

@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.

[e90m3]

@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.

[Urambo Tauro]

@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!

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@e90m3 said in Upbadging Eliminated:

@i86hotdogs So are you saying I should festoon the 328i with M badges?

Alpina...

[SilentbutnotreallyDeadly]

@i86hotdogs
Honestly, upon seeing the normal view...I thought it was a zebra.

[Shop-Teacher]

@i86hotdogs Oh now that is FANTASTIC!

[AuthiCooper1300]

@e90m3

A 328i you say? Now that would be the perfect candidate for something really kinky... like replica EMW badges.

[Cash Rewards]

@ash78 I really didn't think it needed clarification, but here we are

[e90m3]

@AuthiCooper1300 My trunk roundel has seen much better days.

[facw]

@i86hotdogs Big improvement. Though I'm sort of weirded out by it being backwards...

Regardless I still am pretty shocked that the previous owner was able to swap the bumper piece but didn't have the wherewithal to paint it off the car, and in a color that at least better matched.

[Roundbadge]

@i86hotdogs HELL YEAH!

[i86hotdogs]

@facw the more I drive and work on the car, the more I learn new crazy stuff the guy did

[Mr.Ontop]

@e90m3 No, he's saying I should festoon my Mazda 3 with M3 badges.

[AuthiCooper1300]

@e90m3

My trunk roundel has seen much better days.

I think your car is ripe to turn into an EMW 327 Ostalgie Edition – by BMW: "A very special car for those diehards that think that the GDR wasn't that bad, after all."

Some ersatz Eisenach Motoren Werke EMW 327 brochures carelessly left on the rear parcel shelf would perfectly complete the illusion.

[415s30]

@e90m3 And M stripes!