[Bowzer]

When I bought my 6th gen a few years ago used, it had a few things I wanted to change. One of the many things I never got around to was the gold badging. Anyone know of a simple fix to remove the gold emblems? And yes, I know, there's always prying them off and putting replacement ones on...just looking for the simplest fix. :dunno:

 

[mwmcginn]

you could lightly sand them and paint over with silver, I am just not sure how to make that change so easy.

 

[Aviography]

The gold color is plated on electrolytically, if there are some chemist in the group they maybe able to figure out the reverse process....

Or you can try buffing them with a soft fabric buffing wheel, the gold badges eventually loose their shine due to road debri abrasion and atomspheric exposure over time.

 

[Accordlover]

The Silver emblems can be found on ebay usually.... - Just a thought.

 

[thesteve151]

trade with someone?:dunno:

 

[Accordlover]

trade with someone?:dunno:

lol

They really aren't that expensive at the dealer...

Each H is probably no more than $8.00 + the trim sign. The badges are plastic. There's no point in trying to turn them silver.

 

[RTexasF]

Remove them & replace them?

 

[daavo]

It is probably going to be best just to remove and replace. I owned a gold electroplating biz in college and all I did was gold emblems for cars. They are probably starting to corrode at this point and the only way for them to look good and look like chrome again is to replace them. There isn't a good way to replate them with chrome because underneath the gold is a nickel base that was activated when they were gold plated .... so the gold plating would stick to the emblem. It will look bad if and when the gold is stripped off. Chrome and gold both stick to nickel but they don't stick to each other so trying to replate with chrome probably won't work.

 

[Bowzer]

You provided some great background on the process there Daavo...thanks. Coincidenatally, I am a chemist by education so what you noted sounds true to form...no good way to undo the plating.

The plating is actually holding up fine. It's just not my preference. I was going to get some WetPaint products on the way and do some overdue work on my time off for the Holidays and thought it would be a good time to catch some of these little details. Certainly seems to be easy enough to change out the rear badges. I haven't looked at the front grill but isn't that all one piece?

The suggestion to swap out with someone got my absurd sense of humor going: Wouldn't it be something to swap someone's emblems unprompted like in a parking lot...walk up to your car and "Hey, weren't those chrome a couple of hours ago?"... Okay...enough of the strange headtrip tangents.

Thanks for the replies everyone as usual.