Emblems

I am looing to shave my Blazer emblems of my truck and I know how to do that with all the reading I have done here but my question is when I bought the truck from the dealer they put one of their Dealer labels on the back tailgate. How do I go about removing that one without scratching the paint??  

Your Blazer will look so much better after you shave all the emblems.  I bought some adhesive remover and I sprayed it on the blazer, chevrolet, and the black protectors at the bottom of the doors.  I also sprayed the vinyl dealer label on the back of my car.  I let everything soak for about 10 minutes (I wouldn't do it for much longer).  Then I used a black, non stick spatula to scrape the emblems and vinyl labels off.  It worked wonders.  Then I used some wax and waxed over where the emblems.  Easy.

When I took the PARAMOUNT CHEVY badge off the back, i used a heat gun. I held it there for about ten seconds and then I pulled the badge right off.  I then took some Bug & Tar remover to get the rest of the adhesive off, then waxed it. I never considered taking the door trim off.  If it wasn't there there is not telling how many dings I would have.

For adhesive i would use mineral spirits, alittle goes a long way. You cant get it at most autoparts stores.

Thanx guys. My buddy has a heat gun so I will borrow it off him sometime. Eurogold I don't have the trim on mine just the emblems. So no worries about that one.

I have removed a few of the dealer decals before and using a soappy water solution and letting it soak, then taking a razor blade very carefully and a very low angle should take it off, then just wax and buff the spot. Just go slow and easy with the razor blade. They also make plastic razor blades that look just like the metal but dont scratch as easy and do about the same job.

Would a blow dryer also work, instead of a heat gun?

Yeah, they are kinda the same thing.

Cool.  I bought a bunch of black Chevy bowtie emblems off Ebay, and I know they'll look a lot better than the stock puke-yellow emblems that came with the truck.

Crew, I still have couple of questions, though...

1) My truck is 11 years old.  When I remove the emblems, isn't it likely that the paint under the removed emblems will be a different color than the rest of the truck?  If so, is there a cheap way to hide this?  (If not, I may just decide to have the entire truck painted again anyway.)

2) My truck has "LS" emblems located on the upper part of the door.  Can I easily remove these also without scratching the paint?  I found these cool "SS" emblems that match the bowties, but it would look stupid if I put those on without removing the "LS" emblems first.

how do you get the bowtie off of the grill? like Pyscropod, i wanna ditch the puke yellow one, it just doesnt go too good w/ black. and if i just spray paint it will it hold up ok?

hit it with a scotch brite pad, then some primer, then the paint.  that way the primer hides the scuff scratches.  It shouldn't peel. 

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That is one of the most basic mods you can make, and anybody can do it with 10 minutes and some paint.

cool, but how do you get it off?i looked real quick one day and wasnt too sure how to get to it.

OK. Pull the grill off and look at the back behind the bowtie, you will see two nuts. Remove them, and the bowtie will slide right out of the front of the grill.

awesome thanks yall im gonna try to do that this evening and do the "$5 billet grille" while im at it  : )

Post up some pics when you get finished up. In fact everyone post up pics if you have done this.

well, i only have half of it done, and im a little dissapointed. there was only enough in the pack for the top half, and i had to cut notches in it b/c the vertical bars are close enough to the edge that it made it stick out and was wavy. it still looks ok from a distance but you can see where i had to cut it up close.

heres  how it turned out, dont look to bad in the pic

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Looks good for just five bucks!! You might need to perfect it a little bit, but everything can always use a littel work.

thanks man

Here are pics of my painted grill bowtie and trailer hitch bowtie as well as
removed trim.      








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myolblue4x4 you gotta resize those pics dude, they are huge. PM'd you.