do you debadge vehicles or wrap round them?

[Shane Drew]

quote commalex:

Just about to do the first vehicle wrap for an advert for my self going on the tailgate. I’m worried about the badge. Do people recommend de-badging it? or heat up around it and then rivet brush as much as possible, then cut excess??? Maybe cover it completely? or do a oval cut contour around the badge and hope it lines up accurately from the template?!

If its OK with the client, I de-badge. Otherwise I cut around it. Going over it makes the job look unfinished I think, plus it may pop later and detract from the overall job.

welcome to the boards by the way.
cheers 😛

[commalex]

thanks for your help and welcome. I’m hopefully going to get on a wrap course to find out more – and see if it actually worth getting into that business. We have the technology, and suppliers just need the skills. I’ve managed to get sample of Grafityp’s GrafiWrap system so hoping to experiment first.

Alex

[Cheryl Smith]

Hi, you dont say if it is going on the back of a car or van, either way ideally get as much removed as possible. Badges, personally I’d remove them, after all you are advertising your company not the car make or model, all of the rear wrap jobs I have ever done, Id point out to the customer that is the best thing to do. If they want them kept cut round them, but also, if removed carefully, they could always be restuck afterwards with double sided spongey sticky stuff (forgotten the techi name). Remove windscreen wipers and number plates. Even better to remove door handles if possible. To make the area as obstacle free as possible will make life so much easier.
Cheryl

[Derek Heron]

a tip for removing badges i picked up on here use strong fishing line
slid under the badge saves having to lever them off

Derek

[Lee Ballard]

quote Cheryl Smith:

if removed carefully, they could always be restuck afterwards with double sided spongey sticky stuff (forgotten the techi name).
Cheryl

I thought that was the technical name 😀 😀 😀

Ok VHB really

[gurupidal]

quote Derek Heron:

a tip for removing badges i picked up on here use strong fishing line
slid under the badge saves having to lever them off

Derek

Excellent tip that Derek. We just use a blue Avery scraper to slice it out. But it wrecks the scraper. (We say scraper you might say application tool) 😕

[George Kern]

We always remove the vehicles emblems/badges unless the customer specifies. We used to heat them up shrink the vinyl over them then trimp around it but this looks terrible a few months down the line after its been in the weather and normal road use.

The best ways I have found to remove the badges that use the 3M double sided foam tape is to heat the emblem with a blow-torch or a heatgun and use fishing line to pull it up underneath it. If possible, heat the emblem from the reverse side and not directly on the emblem itself, this can save the emblems without destroying them which will enable you to reapply them back onto the vehicle over the wrap.