Keeping it goin - Sunday is a good day for debadging. Just going for a cleaner look and theres quite a few badges on the rear of this model. Watched a few youtube videos before proceeding. The car is only a couple of months old so i guess it helped with how unbelievably easy this process was - if only all things i wanted to do to my car were so simple.
Here's what the badging looked like at the start:
First thing i did was to clean the badged area with Meguiars Quick Detailer - Then using the wifes hair dyer i applied heat on the badges for about a minute or so not too close and i wiggled the badges as i went along.
After the badges seemed loose enough (they actually had a little give in them even before the hair dryer) i used fishing wire to remove the badges by going back and forth in a sawing motion.
After removing the badges i was left with the remaing sticker / glue - which looks like this.
I picked off any large parts of sticker / glue, which was very easy, various forums / videos talk about the use of razors and other various ways to clean it up. I bought an adhesive cleaner and simply wiped it up with some absorbent paper towel. If your car is new then i cant imagine anyone having any issues with the sticker / glue clean up. Here's the spray is bought, about $25 a can, there's probably alot of other options but i really like how strong it is without leaving residue. But i still cleaned the area again with the quick detailer hehe.
This is what the area looked like afterwards.
No more badges.
For me personally, its a much cleaner look and like the rest of the car ive gone for a simple look which is now mirror by the rear. Don't know if i should remove the Toyota emblems and possibly plasti-dip them then re-apply them??? Hahaha.