Hello all,

Well, someone decided that they wanted my rear vrs badge, so they took it whilst I was away on holiday! :confused:

Well anyway, how can I now get rid of the sticky stuff which is left behind. Its like foam + glue as you can see from the picture...

Anyone have any idea's? (i've tried a bit of white spirit, but to no avail)

Cheers chaps!

Spray some WD40 on it, good for selotape on paint etc.........

Stick a new one on.

Use a hair dryer and it should come clean off. Failing that, White spirit on a cloth.

Did they mark the paint? :eek: Wouldn't put it past some scr0te to leave great gouges in the paint. If not, maybe it was just someone looking to put something on Ebay.

Try to peel as much of the foam stuff off as possible.

Then go to a supermarket and get some "sticky stuff remover" comes in a little bottle, it's a citrus cleaner and that'll get rid of the glue.

Warm it up with hot air gun,then scrap it off with your nail.Last bits can be taken off with meths(be careful) then claybar.Just took my octavia off above the VRS yesterday.

Nice one chaps... will be using a hair drier on it tomorrow and scraping it. Then if there is anything else left, i'll use that sticky stuff remover. Hopefully it will all come off by the heat... It fact, I'm going out now to try it

Cheers for that lads! All done now... well most of it. There is a small scratch (highlighted in red circle) where they have used a screw driver to prise it off, but it should get covered by the new badge.

Thanks again for all the help! Ended up using a hair drier, then white spirit + credit card, lol!

We had a couple of Opels nearly 25 years ago. Someone nicked the Opel badges off the bootlids one night. They scratched them a bit but the trouble was in replacing them. The cars didn't come out of the factory with them. The boot lids were drilled and badges fitted on the docks when they arrived in the UK. Consequently you got whatever badges they'd got a bucket of at the time and diffrent ones had got different lug spacings on them. One of them took weeks to track down and was actually an official part off a Commodore. Garages really knew how to mess you about in those days!