Arne said:

Dental floss. Use a fairly heavy, waxed variety. Slide it under the emblem and gently saw through the adhesive.

I like your solution, Arne! That will be worth a try at some future time.

When I went to Auto Body Repair school under the GI bill back about 1979,

the instructors were "old hands" who kept a hairdryer in their tool stash.

The heat of a hairdryer is perfect to melt the goop which holds on a bumper

sticker, stick-on side moulding, stick-on badge or emblem, and that type of

thing, so you can peel it up gradually as you move the heat along. Sort of

like welding in reverse. Yet it is not so hot as to damage anything under-

neath, paint for example. The residual goop on the surface after you remove

the item in question will clean up easily with mineral spirits.

All Z Best,................................Rick (and Kathy of course)

  Kathy & Rick said:

  Arne said:

Dental floss. Use a fairly heavy, waxed variety. Slide it under the emblem and gently saw through the adhesive.

I like your solution, Arne! That will be worth a try at some future time.

That trick is well-known in BMW circles. That's how you de-badge a BMW without damaging the paint. Now the Z community knows as well!

I de-badged my Civic the same way, worked really well to combine the two methods - heat it up and use the floss to cut it out.

I think I used a product called Orange-off or something like that to remove the goo residue.