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Anyone Know Where to Get Cost Effective Replacement Emblems?

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Old 07-30-16, 06:27 AM
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Default Anyone Know Where to Get Cost Effective Replacement Emblems?

My beloved 430 UL unfortunately (to me anyway) has the gold package on the back deck. Thankfully, due to the Radar package, the front "L" it remains silver. While not the end of the world, I would love to change out the gold emblems.

Any recommendations would greatly appreciated and should anyone want to trade gold emblems for the OEM, I am down like Charlie Brown and will throw in some cool gift as well.

After fixing every little thing to make it look close to it being 2005, this is the last thing remaining.
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how hard is it to switch them out? I would trade my regular for gold anyday. meet halfway maybe
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eBay usually has cheap emblems
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I have the PCS as well. I am wondering where can we get the new grill screen and how much. I hope that it isn't like 1k plus like some of the other posts were saying.
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On a similar note, does anyone know where to buy (or how to make) black chrome emblems? I found a stick-on plastic set on ebay, but nothing that looked good.
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My issue is the dealer wants around $300 and a very kind member here offered his at a very reasonable sum, but the 2000-2003's use a different part number and are slightly different sized.

I have thought about black chrome as I think the Crystal White paint would set it off, but planning on keeping it OEM. Sincere thanks to all who have taken the time to respond.
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Originally Posted by OsideTurbo
On a similar note, does anyone know where to buy (or how to make) black chrome emblems? I found a stick-on plastic set on ebay, but nothing that looked good.
You might consider painting your emblems. A very high gloss finish looks good and will last better than you think.....

Did these on the SC:




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Originally Posted by Duck05
You might consider painting your emblems. A very high gloss finish looks good and will last better than you think.....

Did these on the SC:
Looks nice! Thanks for the tip. What kind of paint did you use? Did you finish with a clear coat or anything else?
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Body shop painted them. Several coats of high gloss black and 2 coats clear.....(if they told me the correct process....)
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