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YOUR RESEARCHMy $563 911 rebadging saga
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Luckily I just replaced the original black emblem with a Silver one - right on top of the ghost - and avoided the problem.
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Mine had a dent and the body shop wanted $600 to repair ($100 of it was for a new Carrera 4 badge - they said they could not reuse the one I had).
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I never understood what the point is to replacing the stock badge with something the car never came with from the factory, but for $50 bucks or whatever I guess to each his own.
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OP your car looks awesome, **** happens sometimes, no use cryin over spilt milk.
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I never understood what the point is to replacing the stock badge with something the car never came with from the factory, but for $50 bucks or whatever I guess to each his own.
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Last weekend I got the bright idea to remove my carrera 4 badging and replace it with a simpler 911 script
I removed the old emblem easily enough but after 45 mins with a porter cable polisher i had burned through the paint on my rear deck and ghost image of the carrera 4 was still visible
So I ended up having to get it repainted and put the new badge on today
In retrospect it was a giant waste of time and money
I noticed the same "ghost" under my Carrera emblem. Luckily I just replaced the original black emblem with a Silver one - right on top of the ghost - and avoided the problem.
If it makes you feel ANY better, I wisely decided to remove the paint protector on the right-hand side skirt - it was scratched where I whacked a cone a couple of years ago.
Turns out the "scratch" was actually where the underlying paint was cracked, and I peeled off 1x2 inches of paint just ahead of my rear wheel.
I currently have the chips taped back into place until I can get the skirt resprayed. I still have plastic on my hood, front bumper, and right-side skirt, so I might as well do them all before I head over to the paint shop.
It was definitely one of those "shoulda left it alone" moments.
Money is not wasted. You now have a new rear deck lid that says 911 in bold new lettering. And many have done things more expensive than that.
And any money spent on a Porsche is not wasted. It's a hobby. Once I crossed $40k into my 1999 911 I started to feel like I was wasting money that I would never get back. Took I guy I was working with who put $5000 into mods on his leased WRX that he has to take back off to teach me that lesson. It's cheaper than gambling, a mistress, or a divorce.
Enjoy it and now you have a "home improvement" story to tell.
I like the uplifting commentary - but at some point the time and money involved in "I had to spend money getting my decklid repainted because I burned through it with a polisher" might actually fall into the "wasted" category.
It sucks either way - but I bet OP had stuff he'd rather have spent $563 bucks on.
Mistakes suck, and expensive ones suck even worse.
Since I got my 996, I been contemplating removing my Carrera badge, but the previous owner broke throu half the C , and did a **** poor job of applying the glue I guess- there's some 2 small "globs" of some sort of glue. (small but visible if you look) . Plus I was worried agains the ghost image .
These threads don't really give the the enthusiasm to start through with it.
OP your car looks awesome, **** happens sometimes, no use cryin over spilt milk. Enjoy!
I have to commiserate with the OP. I never understood what the point is to replacing the stock badge with something the car never came with from the factory, but for $50 bucks or whatever I guess to each his own. But $600 is a bitter pill to swallow.
I have an extra deck lid. Mine had a dent and the body shop wanted $600 to repair ($100 of it was for a new Carrera 4 badge - they said they could not reuse the one I had). So for $200 bought a used deck lid (arctic silver) off ebay and swapped it out. Now my Carrera 4 says Carrera (and the new lid came off a 2001+ so the badge is at the bottom not the top.
Decided to try to switch badges and removed the Carrera 4 from the original deck lid to see how it would go. There is definitely a ghost image that with multiple buffs and polishes I can not remove. Decided to leave well enough alone.
I guess it would have been more helpful if I posted this sooner.
