Waxed and debaged my Sonic!

[Gimpster]

I'm about to drive my Sonic to San Francisco in two weeks for a conference/some work. I figured I better get some wax on it before it sees nasty winter roads.

I then figured I'd finish my debadging. So I get the Sonic LT, Turbo and dealer stuff off no issue. I heat up the bowtie, pop it off.. and to my dismay Chevrolet (unlike on my Cobalts) used locating pins So as you can see below I now have two nice 3-4mm wide holes.

I'm trying to decide my long-term plan of action, but at the moment I'm going to just cover them with two small circles of red monokote tape for model airplanes. I looked through my stash of RC plane stuff and the red tape I have is pretty much a match to Victory Red. I might look around on ebay or through the GM catalogs for a black bowtie that isnt so large... not sure. Maybe a Holden or Opel badge??? I always liked that Opel lightning bolt thing. To make matters worse, when the bowtie was put on the car at the factory they SLAMMED it on and dug into the paint on one corner. I should be able to polish that all out and fill in the gouge with my color chip kit.

BUT ANYWAY.... just a beware to anyone else who's thinking of debadging. My next project will be the black out the front bowtie. Going to try my hand again at vinyl on that.

Oooooh shiny red Sonic

Rear without badges

HOLES!!

 

[pawntec]

looks sexy all clean shaved! i like my ladies shaved! dont you? lol

 

[Sonic]

Ok so I'll leave the bow tie and remove everything else.

 

[EVOX_SPEED3]

Looks much better!! Doing mine this weekend, but keeping the Chevy Emblem until I find a solution for the holes it leaves!

 

[Gimpster]

Yah removing those badges really cleans it up.. kinda cluttered back there from the factory. Agree with you guys on leaving the bowtie on until we have a good replacement for those who don't like it. Sometimes being the first to do it comes with a price :\

I personally don't mind the bowtie itself, but the trend of putting HUGE emblems on cars annoys me. Really no reason to have a 5" wide bowtie sheesh.

 

[hdghog]

Personally, I'm more concerned with the gigantic 'tie on the front than anything else. Especially annoying, since it's sunk into the middle of the front fascia, so removing it would mean an equally huge bowtie-shaped indentation, if nothing else.

I wouldn't mind it so much, but... why gold? White paint + chrome trim + gold emblem just doesn't do it for me.

Maybe I'll pop it out and paint the gold part or something... Hmmm...

Thanks for being adventurous and forging the path, though.

 

[Gimpster]

Chevys been on the gold bowtie kick for a while now, I don't get it. You would think they'd want to color coordinate or something

 

[10spokeSS]

Yeah they never had a chevy badge on a stock Camaro until the new one came out so they are just becoming advertisement crazy. They should have to pay me to have such a big badge on there

 

[WickedlySmiling]

Lol ... Rolling billboards seem to be the easiest product placement a company like chevrolet could come up with, cheaper and easier than the pop culture campaign they started for the sonic ...

 

[MelvinJ]

I'll never understand debadging....

 

[Ferdie]

Hee

i've surch on Ebay and when you search for Chevrolet Cruze than you get the chevy logo in black!

that is a replace logo for the gold one!
if you put that up the holes than you have no problem!

You can also car wrap you're logo i've done that and it looks amazing! you can check my topic for pics

2011 2012 CHEVY CRUZE 2PC BLACK BILLET BOWTIE REPLACEMENT INSERTS | eBay

11 CHEVROLET CRUZE BLACK FRT&RR BOWTIE GRILLE EMBLEM REPLACES GOLD PORTION ONLY | eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-C...Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item2a152c931e

 

[MGDavis]

looks sexy all clean shaved! i like my ladies shaved! dont you? lol

landing strip, imo...

 

[Gimpster]

So I finally found something to cover the two holes. I'm usually not into decals, but I thought this one was kinda fun. If nothing else it'll keep the water/salt out of there for now.

 

[wingman]

So my wife says "whats with the snail?" Funniest thing I've heard all day. Looks good. You may have started a new trend for me.

 

[LS1notFOUND]

Generally speaking i think most chevy owners take pride in that fact that it is..a Chevy.

However the snail is good! Need something back there at least.

 

[Shapoopy]

Personally id like the sonic "S" where the bow tie is, then just a clean turbo badge... not a red and chrome one -.-

 

[thirdlobe]

looks great man!

 

[CAD3809]

I found out the hard way too. So, I had my rear bowtie painted the same color a the car so it wouldn't stand out so much and it's not gold now. Going to have the front one done too!

 

[2FR35H]

Personally, I'm more concerned with the gigantic 'tie on the front than anything else. Especially annoying, since it's sunk into the middle of the front fascia, so removing it would mean an equally huge bowtie-shaped indentation, if nothing else.

I wouldn't mind it so much, but... why gold? White paint + chrome trim + gold emblem just doesn't do it for me.

Maybe I'll pop it out and paint the gold part or something... Hmmm...

Thanks for being adventurous and forging the path, though.

Well maybe someone will come up with a front bumper that replaces it.. hopefully.

 

[Sonic Boomer]

Here is mine debadged except the bowties which are covered in silver vinyl in the rear and black vinyl in front.