Well, shut my mouth!!

 

this thread is full of win

i had no idea so many people misunderstood the concept of de-badging
obviously it is a preference thing, but it is equally as obvious that none of us are embarrassed to be driving an infiniti...

originally i did it to clean up the look but now I also kinda see it as a way of de-branding the car. In the process of making the vehicle my own and making upgrades I don't really see it as a G35 anymore, she's Raichyl.

good luck putting the letters back on; I like trying to tackle things myself also. In for pics of the finish job!

 

in for pics of the rebadge attemp!

good luck

 

Pics as promised... if anyone wants better pics let me know. I think it came out fine.

 

Came out great, now all you have to do is get this thread deleted so there will be no evidence you ever did such a thing
Those guys that give your lease a final inspection do troll these forums

 

It honestly looks much better than I thought it would. Kudos!

 

The letters themselves still look clean and undamaged. It's nice to know they can be removed and re-applied, although likely with a lot of care and patience... which the OP seems to have.

But the gap between the "F" and the "I" is very inconsistent with most of the lettering gap. Nobody sees that? The first 4 letters need to be adjusted. It's pretty obvious.

 

Now that you say it and I look at the picture second time around, I do notice what you are saying.
Good eye.

 

No nobody is going to notice when he turns it in. It will be fine.

 

If you are capable of better pics, then why not shoot & post them in the first place??
I expected macro close ups and a couple of them should have been from an extreme angle to check on the adhesive used. Although I doubt the inspection would include this close of an examination of the emblems to determine whether they'd been removed and re-applied, if I was looking for evidence of this personally, I would be looking at it with my eyes about 1 foot away and from a 45 degree angle to check for excess or missing adhesive & the precision of the cuts on the edge of the adhesive.
With the pics posted so far, I cannot give anything more than a vague opinion, which would be about the same as not seeing any pics at all, but just an expectation of mediocrity.
IMO, even mediocrity would pass inspection, only because I doubt they check for this, but the next owner or one of his/her friends/family would notice something not right, eventually.

 

Those type of guys are douchebags.

Debadging isn't falsely rebadging. I mean if they took off the 250 and stuck a 350, or added an S to a Journey, the people doing that would be silly, but to be condescending to other car owners because they think they're superior, is just stupid. I didn't buy the 37S to impress people, I got it because I wanted the sport package.

 

I have the same question.
Also, likely a violation of the terms of the lease to alter the external appearance of a leased car.

I you want to make changes to a car, for heavens sake buy the damn thing so you can do as you please. Remember, a leased car is owned by someone else - have some respect.

 

I see the gap between the F and I... Its not perfect but its a lease return and I think its sufficient. The way they treat the cars after they receive them and the way I have treated it the past three years, I am still gonna be miles ahead of them. I debadged in the first place simply because I thought the trunk looked too crowded and I liked the simpler look, nothing to do with being proud or ashamed... Also I had two two inch scratches on the top right corner of the trunk and they decided to charge me $200 which I thought was absurd so I don't care enough to make it perfect. I don't particularly want to take more pics but if someone else requests them I will. With a close up at an angle you will see missing adhesive behind the lettering...

 

I need 30 more posts so I can post a few things in the classifieds... someone start a new and interesting thread or post haha.

 

I agree that such actions are shameful. But I wasn’t talking about adding false badging, rather, the absence of badging to suggest a different model. I wonder if some observers, not knowing much about cars in general, may look at a debadged car and think that’s the reason they did it. So instead of observing the rear of a debadged car and saying, “That car has a nice, clean look,” may think, “There goes a phony trying to hide something.”