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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host  Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320  | ||
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| RE: Trunk star removal I've heard a hair dryer(careful-- painted surface!!  ) and a piece of dental floss can be used to remove body scripts and badging. Get the adhesive hot(or, better yet-- have an assistant wield the gun) and slide the floss behind the badge to remove it. Use adhesive remover to clean up the rest of the mess. Now, I'm not sure this is the way to remove an emblem-- but it's the way scripts are removed. | ||
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | RE: Trunk star removal iNeon - 3/2/2008 9:12 PM I've heard a hair dryer(careful-- painted surface!! ) and a piece of dental floss can be used to remove body scripts and badging. Get the adhesive hot(or, better yet-- have an assistant wield the gun) and slide the floss behind the badge to remove it. Use adhesive remover to clean up the rest of the mess. Now, I'm not sure this is the way to remove an emblem-- but it's the way scripts are removed. Heating the paint up in the way you described could seriously damage it. So yes it useless information that needs to be deleted! You have no experience with newer Mercedes/W211. so you have no business being here! | |
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| NZ Benz Expert Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: New Zealand Vehicle(s): 1993 300SEL/S320 Posts: 2555  | RE: Trunk star removal Benzcowboy - 3/3/2008 12:26 AM iNeon - 3/2/2008 9:12 PM I've heard a hair dryer(careful-- painted surface!! ) and a piece of dental floss can be used to remove body scripts and badging. Get the adhesive hot(or, better yet-- have an assistant wield the gun) and slide the floss behind the badge to remove it. Use adhesive remover to clean up the rest of the mess. Now, I'm not sure this is the way to remove an emblem-- but it's the way scripts are removed. Heating the paint up in the way you described could seriously damage it. So yes it useless information that needs to be deleted! You have no experience with newer Mercedes/W211. so you have no business being here! I dunno if I'd be too worried heating with a hair-dryer it can't get as hot as say the sun does on black paint. I know that method works for the model badges on the LHS of the boot but I think the star may have some kind of clip in the middle. Best bet would be to have a look under the boot lid lining to see if you can see anything then go from there. | |
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | RE: Trunk star removal NZ Benz - 3/2/2008 11:33 PM Benzcowboy - 3/3/2008 12:26 AM iNeon - 3/2/2008 9:12 PM I've heard a hair dryer(careful-- painted surface!! ) and a piece of dental floss can be used to remove body scripts and badging. Get the adhesive hot(or, better yet-- have an assistant wield the gun) and slide the floss behind the badge to remove it. Use adhesive remover to clean up the rest of the mess. Now, I'm not sure this is the way to remove an emblem-- but it's the way scripts are removed. Heating the paint up in the way you described could seriously damage it. So yes it useless information that needs to be deleted! You have no experience with newer Mercedes/W211. so you have no business being here! I dunno if I'd be too worried heating with a hair-dryer it can't get as hot as say the sun does on black paint. I know that method works for the model badges on the LHS of the boot but I think the star may have some kind of clip in the middle. Best bet would be to have a look under the boot lid lining to see if you can see anything then go from there. Clear coat + Heat= BAD ! BAD= Clear Coat Failure! It a very possible to crack the clear coat!  Edited by Benzcowboy 3/3/2008 12:49 AM | |
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | RE: Trunk star removal An After that rude interruption. Back to the subject. Wonder if there is a special tool pull the star off. Here is a picture with star off. (rearmoldings.jpg) (star.jpg.jpg) Attachments ----------------  rearmoldings.jpg (133KB - 34 downloads) star.jpg.jpg (133KB - 29 downloads) | |
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| Roch207 Expert Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Palmetto State Vehicle(s): 2005 E320 CDI, 2010 Silverado 2500HD Posts: 3749 | ||
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| RE: Trunk star removal OK, so there are 3 prongs on the emblem. There will likely be 3 'raspberry' clips that the protrusions from the emblem 'clip' into that need to be removed before the emblem will fall-away from the deck-lid. Remove the trim panel inside the luggage compartment, you'll see the attachment points below the rear tail light. Use a plier, pull the plastic fasteners off(MAKE SURE TO PUT NEW ONES ON YOUR SHOPPING LIST!!!) and the emblem ought to fall loose for you. You're really making a mountain out of a mole-hill with this. Take the durn thing apart already!  | ||
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | ||
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | RE: Trunk star removal NZ Benz it can't get as hot as say the sun does on black paint. When a car is out in the sun, It is evenly and slowly being heated. As where when you take hairdryer/heat gun, you're warming the paint up very fast and unevenly. An probably causing shock to the surface. Causing a very possible risk  Micro-cracking or a crack in the clear coat. Possibly leading towards clear coat failure in the future. Also i would strongly discourage anyone from using a household cleaner (such as WD-40/ goo gone) on the surface of the paint. The residue can probably be safely removed with detailing clay, Meguiar's step one Paint cleaner. Or probably even cleaner wax. You could probably use dental floss to remove the script. But You'd be better off with a soft emblem removal tool.(kind of like this http://www.ketone.com/proddetail.php?prod=AST4505) It's always better to be safe! Than sorry! 
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| RE: Trunk star removal Benzcowboy - 3/4/2008 7:58 AM Meh, that's just being too anal. What fun is life without a few heart attacks because of clear coat failure and going blind because you held the WD-40 can the wrong way. NZ Benz it can't get as hot as say the sun does on black paint. When a car is out in the sun, It is evenly and slowly being heated. As where when you take hairdryer/heat gun, you're warming the paint up very fast and unevenly. An probably causing shock to the surface. Causing a very possible risk Micro-cracking or a crack in the clear coat. Possibly leading towards clear coat failure in the future. Also i would strongly discourage anyone from using a household cleaner (such as WD-40/ goo gone) on the surface of the paint. The residue can probably be safely removed with detailing clay, Meguiar's step one Paint cleaner. Or probably even cleaner wax. You could probably use dental floss to remove the script. But You'd be better off with a soft emblem removal tool.(kind of like this http://www.ketone.com/proddetail.php?prod=AST4505) It's always better to be safe! Than sorry!
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | RE: Trunk star removal AsianML - 3/4/2008 3:14 PM Meh, that's just being too anal. What fun is life without a few heart attacks because of clear coat failure When comes to car care, There no such thing as being too anal. The price of a factory quality repaint, Would give anyone chest pain. 
AsianML - 3/4/2008 3:14 PM Going blind because you held the WD-40 can the wrong way.  | |
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| Marsden Classic MB Date registered: Apr 2006 Location: Capital City USA Vehicle(s): Mercedes-Benz  | ||
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| Re: Trunk star removal Marsden - 4/20/2008 5:59 PM I actually spent a couple of hours doing that two Saturday's ago. I cleaned off the entire rim both on the inside and outside and I washed the wheel wells. Starstruck - 4/18/2008 11:02 PM Totally agree. There is no such thing as being too anal -- i.e., too careful or too much of a perfectionist -- when it comes to car care. No way, no how. Hear me now, believe me later. I draw the line at cleaning the inner surfaces of the wheel, the parts you can't see, facing the brakes. However I'm kinda fanatical about the visible parts.
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| Benzcowboy Detailing/CarCare Host Date registered: May 2006 Location: Vehicle(s): 2009 GL450 2005 E320 | Re: Trunk star removal Marsden - 4/20/2008 4:59 PM I draw the line at cleaning the inner surfaces of the wheel, the parts you can't see, facing the brakes. However I'm kinda fanatical about the visible parts.
I always clean the inner surface of my wheels . (I clean the wheel Wells also.) I usually have scuff knuckles afterwards thought. Wish I could find a soft inner wheel brush, That doesn't fall apart after two uses . BTW figured out, how to polish/de-swirl the inner part of the trunk star.
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