I have been looking for deal on chrome emblems for awhile. My gold ones were getting tired plus they just don’t give the look I want, they are kinda 90’s if you know what I mean. I got to thinking, Gold goes on top of chrome and the gold always wears off the chrome so what can I do to get rid of the gold?
I decided to take a chance and try, no guts no glory!
Here is what you will need.

• Heat gun or hair dryer
• Buffing wheel for a drill or die grinder
• Metal polish I like Blue magic
• Two sided emblem tape
• Some razor blades
• WD40
• Prep solvent
• One gallon can of patience
• And about three hours

Lets start with a before shot.

 

Now using the heat gun gently warm the emblem up. Use a credit card to lift the emblem and start cutting the adhesive with a blade, slowly! It will break!
Once you have it off use the WD40 to remove the glue on the car.

 

Here are the heat gun and buffer I used

 

Now hold the emblem in your hand and use the buffer and compound too polish off the gold. Here is a emblem halfway done.

 

Here it is done, Now take a razor and clean the extra adhesive off the back of it.

 

Clean it with a prep type solvent.
Now stick new adhesive tape to it. I always use 3m trim adhesive. Once you stick it to it you will need to trim all around it with a razor blade.

 

Now clean the car with a prep type solvent and stick it on. Walla! Chrome!

Repeat for all the emblems and here is how it looks.

 

Close up

 

Wow...that looks awesome, great writeup man.

 

sweet, never knew the gold was on top of the silver

 

Chrome with un-touched gold.

 

great write up Scott, now if i only had gold emblems haha.

 

great write-up...looks like i got another summer car project to add to the list...

 

personally i think the gold gave it such a rich look but whatever floats your boat

 

WTF... wow... your amazing... i would have never guessed that under the gold is freaking chrome... i just got done painting mine black satin bc it was my compromise for getting rid of the gold and not having chrome. BLAH. now i have to take it all off again.

anyways nice write up scott.