31 replies to this topic

[joshhatton]

hey if i take the rear Vauxhall badge off will it leave to pin holes? i have asked a astra owner and he said the badge has 2 pins, cheers

[pickle]

nope

[pickle]

Damn it! Those 2 extra letters cost me the first reply

[joshhatton]

search button is my friend now

[pickle]

You managed it in capitals with an additional exclamation mark too. I bow down to your speed and skill sir....

[2.2_na]

You are correct - the Astra rear badge has got two 'prongs' on the back of it, so removing it leaves two holes in the rear of the car. But the VX220 rear badge is flat. It does not leave any holes. Once you remove it properly, the back of the VX is completely smooth.

[pickle]

search button is my friend now

Silver button in the middle of my dash is my friend

[TubbyNorman]

What's with all this de-badging, you sound like the people who drive basic Beemers and have them debadged. If you want the apparent cachet of a Lotus badge, you should buy a (girly looking) Elise. If you want a Lambo or some other Italian exotica, then buy a Panda and save up. Vauxhall are one of the original sports car manufacturers. They still make hot motors. Perhaps it's just me, but I like having the apparent familiarity of a badge that everyone recognises, but a car that they usually don't. OK, over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[snoopstah]

Perhaps it's just me, but I like having the apparent familiarity of a badge that everyone recognises, but a car that they usually don't.

Good for you!

Wouldn't it be boring if everyone was the same.

[iceman]

What's with all this de-badging, you sound like the people who drive basic Beemers and have them debadged. If you want the apparent cachet of a Lotus badge, you should buy a (girly looking) Elise.

If you want a Lambo or some other Italian exotica, then buy a Panda and save up.

Vauxhall are one of the original sports car manufacturers. They still make hot motors.

Perhaps it's just me, but I like having the apparent familiarity of a badge that everyone recognises, but a car that they usually don't.

OK, over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand where you are coming from but there are many of us who debadge for purely cosmetic reasons and not in an attempt to disassociate ourselves from any one marque or add ourselves to another.

In my opinion, a debadged vx's rear is so so much better than that with a large badge slapped in the middle as an after-thought/bar code that totally ruins the straight lines the designer intended and free flow form cam shell producers went to allot of trouble to perfect. Obviously this is just my reasons and opinions and i am not trying to disregard or disrespect yours.

As a visual example of the method behind my madness, i will submit a couple of recent photographs.







I think the rear is a million percent better thus (it has been like so for many a year now) but if one wants to walk around the car, there are another six vauxhall badges on show that remain because they don't detract anything from the chiselled lines of the vx's design.

IMHO

[Z.I.]

as mentioned plenty of time no it doesnt. i received a good tip in an earlier thread which was to spray the badge with wd40 every now n then for a couple of days then the badge near enough fell off.

[pickle]

What?! My car is a fcking Vauxhall???? I debadged it purely to save weight, much better now

[soupdragon]

What's with all this de-badging, you sound like the people who drive basic Beemers and have them debadged. If you want the apparent cachet of a Lotus badge, you should buy a (girly looking) Elise.

If you want a Lambo or some other Italian exotica, then buy a Panda and save up.

Vauxhall are one of the original sports car manufacturers. They still make hot motors.

Perhaps it's just me, but I like having the apparent familiarity of a badge that everyone recognises, but a car that they usually don't.

OK, over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm with you on this Norman
While I accept that some may like the debadged look, I suspect that others have different motives
Vauxhall have a long and great history for sports cars and motorsport, with competition success in the early 1900's leading to many great production sports models
Although a certain TV presenter seems to hold more sway with some
They even managed to do a piece on 50 years of the BTCC without mentioning Vauxhall
I could go on but I'm getting bored now

[A-GAME]

As per Iceman's comments- it simply looks much better IMHO. It's harder to see that unusual vertical line with that oversize Griffin badge (dinner plate) covering it up.

[Garry.L]

They look like a Kit Car without badges...... leave them on!.

[Wolfstone]

Rather than de-badge, I've decided to add badges.