Hi All--

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

Thanks so much for your help!

 

This post should help you:


​​​​​​​Lou

 

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)

 

assuming black badges are aftermarket, this person royally eyeballed it messed up the gap between IS and 500

 

Simply because of how much you care and how much research you've done, I have a strong feeling you won't mess this up. You and I are alike.