Has anybody got a spare Abarth boot badge for sale, mine has started to look pretty cr4ppy, like water has gotten in????
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splashmatt said:
Mmmm... all this talk makes me want to de-badge too.
My Abarth badge looks water damaged too!
I'd like to replace this as possibly the fiat grill/boot and wheel logos with the Scorpion logos. Does anyone have any experience if the badges on www.abarthbadges.co.uk? Are they good quality and easy to fit? (they sound like they are!)
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I've been looking at abarthbadges.com too, so if anyone has any feedback it'd be most appreciated
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I have the abarth badges from there for my Punto. Extremely easy to fit and they are still on months after I fitted em with no peeling or fading (I wash my car regularly)NeilC said:Mmmm... all this talk makes me want to de-badge too.
My Abarth badge looks water damaged too!
As Ben said, make sure the badge is throughly clean before sticking it on (this includes removing any polish or wax you have put on the car). I found that white spirit or methalated (sp?) spirits is best to use due to their quick evaporation time
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Ordered some badges from Abarthbadges.com and received them next day - so no complaints from me.
Dead easy to fit and are great quality too, so I'm more than impressed
The only problem for me is that there are darker patches on the back where the Fiat and previous abarth badge were. Tried using T-Cut but you can still tell
Anyone got any better advice or do I just KEEP applying T-Cut and hope it will fade?
All I need now is a proper metal / plastic circular Fiat badge to put on the back and whack an Abarth badge over it. Where can you get these from - just from the local Fiat dealer?
Dead easy to fit and are great quality too, so I'm more than impressed
The only problem for me is that there are darker patches on the back where the Fiat and previous abarth badge were. Tried using T-Cut but you can still tell
Anyone got any better advice or do I just KEEP applying T-Cut and hope it will fade?
All I need now is a proper metal / plastic circular Fiat badge to put on the back and whack an Abarth badge over it. Where can you get these from - just from the local Fiat dealer?
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Ok I give up
Is the paint used on Yellow Fiat Stilo's Laquered or something? No matter how much T-Cut I use NO paint is coming off!?
I've had to resign myself to just re-badging it with the previous ones...
Is the paint used on Yellow Fiat Stilo's Laquered or something? No matter how much T-Cut I use NO paint is coming off!?
I've had to resign myself to just re-badging it with the previous ones...
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Yeah it's all water based these days mate so it'll be a basecoat laquer system. Solid colours haven't really been used since the early 90's apart from on commercial vehicles.
Glad to hear they are okay! I think I might order some to compliment my new Abarth!darkcircuitUK said:I have the abarth badges from there for my Punto. Extremely easy to fit and they are still on months after I fitted em with no peeling or fading (I wash my car regularly)
...and thanks for the tips (and you too Ben)!
Whintersby said:Ok I give up
Is the paint used on Yellow Fiat Stilo's Laquered or something? No matter how much T-Cut I use NO paint is coming off!?
I've had to resign myself to just re-badging it with the previous ones...
Just how bad are the dark patches .... I have de badged mine (also Broom Yellow) and I do have the dark patches but you really can not see them unless you screw your eyes up and stare straight at them from about 18" away, I think they are fading anyway.
Still going to get Ben to have a go at the Tailgate with his buffermatic to see if he can bring some of the colour up where its faded.
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Maybe it might be because mine's an 02 reg (not sure what year yours is Bo~?) so has had a few more years in the sun?
They do seem pretty dark - easily noticable from 2 to 3 metres away which has got me wondering if it might have had some sort of re-spray at some point. The front and back bumbers have always been SLIGHTLY darker than the rest of the car, but I just put that down to them ebing sprayed on different materials, etc?
I really wanted to replace my old fiat badge with the new round one too
They do seem pretty dark - easily noticable from 2 to 3 metres away which has got me wondering if it might have had some sort of re-spray at some point. The front and back bumbers have always been SLIGHTLY darker than the rest of the car, but I just put that down to them ebing sprayed on different materials, etc?
I really wanted to replace my old fiat badge with the new round one too
Mines a 02 as well, And yes my bumpers are a little darker too, the Stilo's curves throw the light around as well and I have seen the same thing on others, so dont worry
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Whintersby said:
That's because the bumpers are sprayed in a different colour primer as plastic primer has to have a special adhesion agent in it.
I have a 53 reg and is there defo no pins hold the fiat badge on (the main centre on on the boot) ??
This is something I need confirming too. I have a 54 plate Abarth selespeed so if anyone knows if my badge is pinned/bolted on then please let me know.StiloJoe said:
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Whintersby said:They do seem pretty dark - easily noticable from 2 to 3 metres away which has got me wondering if it might have had some sort of re-spray at some point. The front and back bumbers have always been SLIGHTLY darker than the rest of the car, but I just put that down to them ebing sprayed on different materials, etc?
Just drive it up and down the motorway a few times in the wet, then you wont see it from a foot away.
KoArAnG said:
i have an 04 stilo, as you can see in thesig (yes that's actually my reg... and no i didn't pay for it)....
the badge i had has two pins and there for 2 recessed holes, and whoever it was said they were small hole blatantly lied. they're like 15mm holes with a 10mm recess.
What I would recommend is anyone taking their centenary badge off and cleaning it behind then reattaching it, cos i found a load of cr*p behind my badge which kept running muck down my car in the rain... also i nearly scratched my paintwork with the credit card i used when tryin to get it off
Oh, and when you remove any letters/badges from the back of your stilo, you will need to t-cut a few times before the shapes are no longer visible (that's after wiping it down a load with white spirit) and then polish it over.
Seraph said:
I didnt have to do anything like that when i took mine off, just a little bit of polish to remove the remains of the sticky stuff and that was it. Might be because my cars a light colour tho
activematt said:
Lucky Lucky devil. I took them off and they were totally invisible at some angles, but at others you could see the outline, so i tried to rinse my car off, and the water stuck to the paint work but not where the letters had been, leaving a rain etched stilo on my car... so i t-cut, and eventually it went away.
