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I recently bought a used IS500 5/30/26 which was de-badged by the previous owner (from Carmax) and am attempting to put the badge back but have publicly available stencils or reference points.
Unfortunately it's a little hard to get the right position without:
1. Seeing another IS500 in person
2. even seeing another IS350
3. Having a tape measure / Paper and Pencil to trace out at the moment (plus it's kinda shady to do without asking owner permission)
Would any of you guys be able to do me a huge favor and stencil out a badge position with the hood gap so i can overlay my car? Otherwise my backup plan is to use reference photos and eyeball it.
I'm thinking the best procedure would be (but am all ears for other ideas):
1. take a piece of paper
2. Overlay the badge bottom and hood panel/rear bumper gap
3. get a traditional wooden pencil and turn it to the side and sorta shade it in
4. scan with a credit sized shape and send via PDF with a credit card as a scale reference
I dont think there's a right or wrong way to align the badge, since I've seen some badges that looked crooked even from the factory (in particular the "5" and "0"). Based on the post above, it seems like the magic spot is ~1-1.5 cm above the ridge along the trunk, and centered between the right-side panel gap and the left-side license plate slope edge.
Yeah i was gonna go with reference points as a backup plan
Also now that you point it out it does look like the last two 0-0 do look off -- maybe it's a curve thing following the body panel
Also the entire IS500 is higher than in the photo above. I never noticed that before -- that's kinda interesting you'd think factories would have a stencil for workers to just put the badges on (i saw a how it's made video for Audi's and they have a plastic stencil -- so i assumed all automakers would do it)
I just De-badged mine in preparation for PPF placement. I am not replacing it, but had planned on it so I did some measurements.
From the lower trunk crease to the bottom of the badge is 3/8"
From the edge of the trunk to the right edge of the 0 of the 500 is 1 11/16".
The width of the badge is 5.5".
Hope this helps.
"From the edge of the trunk to the right edge of the 0 of the 500 is 1 11/16"."
Do you mean the lower right corner of the 0? So basically go 3/8" up from crease, then 1 11/16" to the right to form a starting point for the right-most 0?
I measured the distance from the middle of the 0 to the edge of the trunk at that point. So I guess I would measure 3/8 up, put a 0 there and measure from its midpoint to the edge of the trunk.
hope that helps.
I love this post! Never seen where someone re-badged their 500. I never understood the de-badging, I want God and Everybody to know what I’m driving. 😜 Especially since 350 owners are upgrading to quad exhausts and de-badging theirs as well. Surprised I haven’t seen a 500-ish hood on one yet.
IS500 Badge Position - Stencil Request
