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door badges
- Thread starter VWSaxon
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Ha ha.
With badges at £45 each, simply buying a 2.0l in the first place is a bargin :clown:
RB 197 fatty
Golf R
bargain! if you can't find a local spray shop try ebay for silver sprayed badges.
putting 2.0 badges on anything that isn't a 2.0 is just wrong, especially if it's a standard looking dynamique
Golf R
Golf R
How can you make a replica if people don't want you sticking 2.0litre badges on? you can by all means but the interior of a 172 in it or front and rear bumbers but a sport badge or a 2.0litre badge nonono!
<rant/>
if someone takes the effort to make theirs look like a 172/182 by colour coding it, changing the wheels, interior etc then i say fair play, do it. there are some good cars on here which are lookalikes and i've got a lot of time for them :approve:
but if all you have is a standard looking car without any engine work then i wouldn't bother.
Golf GTI PP Mk7
^yeah, sleeper, hehe.
Golf R
lol, alright alright! lol
am i allowed to spray mine silver, which by the way are 1.2 badges not the 1.4 16v ones. is that allowed?
ha ha, i think you've got caught up in the middle of our opinions lol
it's your car, you can do as you please with it
personally the silver badges are a nice touch, so you have a 1.4 sleeper then if 1.2 badges are fitted 
Carrera 4S. Clio 172. M5
Reading this subject, AGAIN, reminds me of something from my youth.
When the Mini Cooper "S" first came out in the 1960s, one of the things that gave away the morons that fitted "S" badges on their bootlids and bonnets, was the fact the steel wheels on a real "S" were perforated with a series of cooling holes.
A "tuning" firm at the time, (it might have been Paddy Hopkirk, I cant remember) sold a set of black stick on patches to go on the standard wheels to make them look like Cooper "S".
How sad was that :S
When the Mini Cooper "S" first came out in the 1960s, one of the things that gave away the morons that fitted "S" badges on their bootlids and bonnets, was the fact the steel wheels on a real "S" were perforated with a series of cooling holes.
A "tuning" firm at the time, (it might have been Paddy Hopkirk, I cant remember) sold a set of black stick on patches to go on the standard wheels to make them look like Cooper "S".
How sad was that :S
CTR--VX220D
I like Yoz's style of sticking 1.2 badges on his 2.0l TB'd beast!
Carrera 4S. Clio 172. M5
Thats my preferred way....I had one of the first E30 M3,s and put a 316i boot badge on it.........loads of smiles...:evil:
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not really tbh, the 2.0 boys do it to p*ss of the lower engined cars:evil: (most boy racers don't have a clue about cars)
The other way round is simply a no no - reason being that any boy racer who tries it on (and they will !) would say 'i beat a 2.0 clio' they are well slow, thus giving 2.0 clio owners a bad name.
VWsaxon- do what you feel is best as it's your car, but even if you spray them silver they will look like 2.0 badges (unless some one looks closely at them)
Personally I wouldn't put 2.0 badges on it, I see loads of badged up cars about (some are proper shocking) I just laugh at them tbh.
not really tbh, the 2.0 boys do it to p*ss of the lower engined cars:evil: (most boy racers don't have a clue about cars)
The other way round is simply a no no - reason being that any boy racer who tries it on (and they will !) would say 'i beat a 2.0 clio' they are well slow, thus giving 2.0 clio owners a bad name.
VWsaxon- do what you feel is best as it's your car, but even if you spray them silver they will look like 2.0 badges (unless some one looks closely at them)
Personally I wouldn't put 2.0 badges on it, I see loads of badged up cars about (some are proper shocking) I just laugh at them tbh.
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Then they'll come across a proper 2 leeter and get left in a cloud of dust. Just cos some little chav decided he wanted to try and be a 2.0, might give 2.0s a bad name, but if you've got a 2.0 u wouldn't care anyway? Cos u know you've got a 2.0 !!!!
I think it gives the wrong impression if you put 2.0ltr badges on a non 2.0ltr like a 1.2 such as mine.
It just looks like your ashamed/ embarrased about your cars engine that you have to lie about it with false badging. Thats why i will never put false badges on mine. Someone near me has put renault, sport badges on back and door badges, yet clearly anyone can see it aint a 2.0 by the bumpers, interior, rear drum brakes, rev counter only going to 7000 max etc.
I just think to myself, are they just doing that to attract the women, impress the chavs etc??
It just looks like your ashamed/ embarrased about your cars engine that you have to lie about it with false badging. Thats why i will never put false badges on mine. Someone near me has put renault, sport badges on back and door badges, yet clearly anyone can see it aint a 2.0 by the bumpers, interior, rear drum brakes, rev counter only going to 7000 max etc.
I just think to myself, are they just doing that to attract the women, impress the chavs etc??
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RB 197 fatty
i sprayed my 1.2 16v ones silver just to colour code them. when i bought my car it was all silver apart from the tacky black badges. i didnt do it coz i want to 'fool' people. samewith my exhaust and wheels. tey are the two main things i love about the 182, that why i did it,coz i cant afford the real thing. dont want people to think its a 2.0!
and im not ashamed of my 1.2 engine either, they may speed past me on the motorway, but i would like to see them get 48mpg!
Pros and cons, swings and roundabouts, each to their own!
......who cares!!!!
and im not ashamed of my 1.2 engine either, they may speed past me on the motorway, but i would like to see them get 48mpg!
Pros and cons, swings and roundabouts, each to their own!
......who cares!!!!
exactly, i love my 1.2, its sooo cheap to run on fuel and insure oh and tax also. In my opinion the 1.2 16v is easily quick enough considering how many cameras and how much traffic there is around.
My car took me for the ride of my life yesterday, I love it.
Sometimes i could do with a bit more power to help with overtaking.
I love the way youve done your clio, with the exhaust etc it looks good. At least it hasnt got only badges on it.
My car took me for the ride of my life yesterday, I love it.
Sometimes i could do with a bit more power to help with overtaking.
I love the way youve done your clio, with the exhaust etc it looks good. At least it hasnt got only badges on it.
EXACTLY, im not trying to make it look like a 2.0, which all of you keep mentioning!!
it just looks nice in silver! dear me guys, :headno:
I know how you mean. I did exactly the same (painted them silver) when my car was orange to go with the silver painted brakes etc, not to falsely badge it.
However people at work etc, told me that to them it looked like i was trying to fool people, and like i was ashamed about my car, which isn't true.
Thats why i put up the earlier post about the perception it gives other people becuase people have told me. After that i decided to paint them the same as the car.
It just aint worth the amount of rip you get from other people for doing it, even though you do it for your reasons, other people just dont understand.
However people at work etc, told me that to them it looked like i was trying to fool people, and like i was ashamed about my car, which isn't true.
Thats why i put up the earlier post about the perception it gives other people becuase people have told me. After that i decided to paint them the same as the car.
It just aint worth the amount of rip you get from other people for doing it, even though you do it for your reasons, other people just dont understand.
I'm going to put Ferrari badges on mine
ZT 1.8T
I reckon if you got the front and back bumper inserts smoothed into the bumper it would look really nice, someone did it with their black clio (jst the front bumper), sorry who ever car it is i cant remember ya name! :rasp:
you know what now ive thought about it, i completely change my opinion on this...... Ive decided, who cares what badges people put on the car, its a pretty petty thing to worry about and have big debates about.
If you want to put 2.0ltr badges on it for what ever reason then do it and who cares what people think.
I just wouldn't do it myself.
If you want to put 2.0ltr badges on it for what ever reason then do it and who cares what people think.
I just wouldn't do it myself.
