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Old Mar 2, 2009 | 01:37 AM
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How come there isn't a write up on how to do it for the Tc? I really want to keep the honeycomb, i dont like ebay's or vrd's. Ive herd theres 2 ways to do it; Replace the whole thing with the bottom, or just cut out the scion and replace with more honeycomb...What do u guys think? Ive searched but everything is for removing the rear emblem and the only write up for the grill de-badging is for the box. Any help that u guys have for me would be awsome. Much luv. No homo
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 01:38 AM
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omfg search
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 01:41 AM
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bro there isnt one for the front grill... trust me ive seen all ur other post about the rear badge... ive been searchin for lik 3 days cuz i didn want to get _____ed out by yall...
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 01:42 AM
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https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=236216

Search for badgeless grille diy or something like that.
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 01:43 AM
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you cant really debadge the front like you can w/ the rear. itll take some degree of modding to say the least. search for like "DIY badge-less grill mod" or something
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 02:13 AM
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thanks bro thats wat i was looking for. guess i was jus lookin for the wrong thing...
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 02:55 AM
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totally bro
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seriously man. but if you must know. all you have to do is use a hair dryer and heat up the tc symbol for a while until the adhevsive gets soft. be careful with a flat head. or just your hands or something sot so you don't scrape it. and take it off.
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im wasn talkin about the scion symbol. i was talkin about totally erasing the emblem from the front grill...
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 05:23 PM
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it wont look good if you take it off... its flat behind the emblem, the grill pattern isn't continued behind it...
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Originally Posted by liltofuboix
seriously man. but if you must know. all you have to do is use a hair dryer and heat up the tc symbol for a while until the adhevsive gets soft. be careful with a flat head. or just your hands or something sot so you don't scrape it. and take it off.
Ya, you're in a whole other world there. That would be for the tC emblem on the back. He's talking about the front grille.
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the point is to cut out the emblem totally and replace it with honeycomb scubasteeve!?! lol and thanks ack154 and to everybody that helped me.
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I understand, I'll shoot some pics in a sec to show you... I debadged my spare one the other night to try sometihng out w/ the emblem..
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Here's what's behind the emblem...



Now there is a way to get an extra bottom one grill and fit it into the top, but I'm not sure of the specifics on that...
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Now looking at that, it'd be sorta tough to cut it out and work in some more honeycomb...

If I were you, I'd try to swap the bottom in... I'll see what I can find as far as DIY's
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https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...t=bottom+grill

It's some work, but worth it in the end... GL!
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Originally Posted by jono06tc
im wasn talkin about the scion symbol. i was talkin about totally erasing the emblem from the front grill...
I know this has gone back and forth... Without having to go through all the hassle of buying a new grill VRD, etc.... or a lengthy process of modding the stock one... I've seen several pics on here and in person where people simply took the silver scion emblem off, prepped and painted it flat black to match the color of the rest of the grill. a "black out" effect. And it looks pretty decent too.

just my 2 cents.
Old Mar 2, 2009 | 11:49 PM
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for the time being, i just bought the cheap ebay plastic grill, seeing as how i like the stock 08 lower and i cant find just an upper vrd. it looks cheap up close but when you see the overall look, i like it better then an emblem on there
Old Mar 3, 2009 | 01:21 AM
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I make OEM debadged upper grilles. Here's the first one I made for my car, and I'll post up pics later of the one I made for a SL guy



Old Mar 3, 2009 | 01:28 AM
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make me one cause i can't seem to get all the parts together to do it



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