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<blockquote data-quote="Lee36328" data-source="post: 399466" data-attributes="member: 113"><p>Carbon fibre badges</p><p></p><p>You gotta give it to the industrious Taiwanese. There's no wheel they can't re-invent, to catch the latest trends.</p><p></p><p>When my car was running fine with no issues, idle minds being the devil's workshop as the saying goes, I itchy backside went to change all my hood and wheel badges to those carbon-fibre ones from Taiwan.</p><p></p><p>Why? Because I can. And they looked good. For a while.</p><p></p><p>This is what they look like now.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f369/L36328/repairs/Image0752resize.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f369/L36328/repairs/Image0751resize.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>They looked nice when new. But the lacquer is not designed to withstand heat. And our wheels get really hot, so those were the first ones to turn black (within 1 week or so.) Next is the badge on the hood, if it stayed there. I had to buy the hood badge several times because it kept flying off. It seems the taiwanese glue is not designed to withstand wind either. And I wasn't even going that fast.... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> . The one that lasted the longest is the one on the rear bootlid (not much heat or wind there.) </p><p></p><p>So, motto of the story, cheap, pretty, and long lasting, you must choose two out of three. Seldom do you get all three together, like most things in life.</p><p></p><p>Back to the original emblems for me then...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lee36328, post: 399466, member: 113"] Carbon fibre badges You gotta give it to the industrious Taiwanese. There's no wheel they can't re-invent, to catch the latest trends. When my car was running fine with no issues, idle minds being the devil's workshop as the saying goes, I itchy backside went to change all my hood and wheel badges to those carbon-fibre ones from Taiwan. Why? Because I can. And they looked good. For a while. This is what they look like now. [IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f369/L36328/repairs/Image0752resize.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f369/L36328/repairs/Image0751resize.jpg[/IMG] They looked nice when new. But the lacquer is not designed to withstand heat. And our wheels get really hot, so those were the first ones to turn black (within 1 week or so.) Next is the badge on the hood, if it stayed there. I had to buy the hood badge several times because it kept flying off. It seems the taiwanese glue is not designed to withstand wind either. And I wasn't even going that fast.... :rolleyes: . The one that lasted the longest is the one on the rear bootlid (not much heat or wind there.) So, motto of the story, cheap, pretty, and long lasting, you must choose two out of three. Seldom do you get all three together, like most things in life. Back to the original emblems for me then... [/QUOTE]
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