Removing swirls/scratches in and around emblems?

Sometimes the only way is to remove the emblem, correct the paint, and re-install the emblem. Just depends on the situation and/or how the emblem is attached to the vehicle.
 
This is a common problem that I decided to fix permanently. I removed my Porsche Cayman emblem with dental floss and then removed the remaining sticky from the emblem. Then I purchased thin magnetic material from a craft store. Just like what fridge magnets are made from, maybe a bit thinner. I glued this to the back of the emblem and trimmed the excess. Now the emblem is a magnet that I pull off to polish around.
 
Brad B. said:
This is a common problem that I decided to fix permanently. I removed my Porsche Cayman emblem with dental floss and then removed the remaining sticky from the emblem. Then I purchased thin magnetic material from a craft store. Just like what fridge magnets are made from, maybe a bit thinner. I glued this to the back of the emblem and trimmed the excess. Now the emblem is a magnet that I pull off to polish around.
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that a great idea. but what do you do if you emblem has the mount things on the back? cutting them off is the easy part what about the holes in the body?
 
I am not a big fan of emblems at all so I say remove them and polish under them, but if you want them on without removing them just use a mf towel with the polish and it will do the trick for you to make the correction needed.
 
wascallyrabbit said:
that a great idea. but what do you do if you emblem has the mount things on the back? cutting them off is the easy part what about the holes in the body?
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I'd guess the magnet would cover the holes anyway? It is a novel idea though, and one I might try on my own cars. But for customer cars, it's not really an option.
 
Yeah, I'm *BIG* on debadging, sometimes taking it to extremes (the S8 looks a little bare without the rings on the trunklid). But if they're glued on and you want to keep them you gotta work the tight spots by hand with something like a cotton swab. Sometimes you can flag the tip of a wooden swab stick to make a "brush", soak that in QD to soften it up and then use that with your most aggressive product (e.g., M105) and use that for the major correctin. Then switch to a regular cotton swab (you can pull the cotton, or squeeze it to a point), or maybe use a MF with a swab stick/etc. behind it to squeeze into the tight spots (be careful the stick doesn't poke through or otherwise cause marring. Use a very plush, but not extra long nap, MF for this so the MF gets into the tight spots.



Then clean out/off the polish residue with lots of PrepWash (or IPA if you only have that), being careful you don't resinstll the marring all over again.



Yeah, huge PIA that can take forever. I'll admit I sometimes say "Good enough!" after half an hour or so even if that leaves things far from perfect :o
 
Problem with removing them is, client(s) not going for that. So I'm stuck grinding away by hand which takes forever to do especially certain bigger script emblems. I've delegated my 4" pads to hand use as I only use 5.5" pads now, but some places only a finger or two can go
 
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