To De-Badge or not?

[Mokuzai]

Did a quick photoshop to see what it could look like. With the other rear mods I kinda like the clean look of the de-badge. Curious what others think.

Not trying to hide the battery size or anything, don’t really care about that...just evaluating the aesthetics.

 

[P85_DA]

Remove the horrendous car pool stickers and keep the badging

 

[Mokuzai]

Hah, gladly will remove the stickers at the end of 2021...but for now I use the carpool lane every day. Got a layer of PPF under those for when they expire.

 

[Shiro]

It's your car, make it look the way you like. I debadged because I think it looks much cleaner. I also ditched the Tesla plate frame as it says "tesla" right above on the trunk garnish.

 

[roblab]

It's your car: Do what you want.

When I'm out driving, watching for 3s and Ss (and Xs), I identify them by whether or not there's chrome on the front or rear. My wife does ID by checking the door handle arrangement and how the DRLs look. Neither of us think driving up close on the freeway or walking around a car in a parking lot is a good idea when it's so easy to see what they are.

And the general public could care less. The word T-E-S-L-A is enough. Most of them don't know I can beat them at the light and won't race me anyway (Darn!). Wish I had a 100D, though. Or a 120!

 

[nomis_nehc]

Black out the license plate frames. Especially if you get the black plates, it looks so much cleaner.

 

[BlueOvalFan]

I like the clean look myself.

Where did you get the carbon fiber vinyl on the rear chrome piece. I like the red lettering too.

 

[Mokuzai]

It's your car, make it look the way you like.

It's your car: Do what you want.

Of course, was just seeing what the consensus was and it seems pretty divisive so far on the votes. Think I'm going to remove them for the clean look.

Black out the license plate frames. Especially if you get the black plates, it looks so much cleaner.

I actually just ordered a custom carbon fiber frame from eBay so I'll see how that looks. I'm getting a vanity plate that uses a special symbol so I'm stuck getting the kids plate and can't go with the black retro plate.

Real Carbon Fiber License Plate Frame for TESLA S X 3 | eBay

Where did you get the carbon fiber vinyl on the rear chrome piece. I like the red lettering too.

The vinyl I had done at a local wrap/ceramic shop. Just $100 for wrapping the one piece and had them match the weave direction from the spoiler I have. The lettering and T logo are plasti-dip that I did myself. It's some luxury metallic volcanic red color. It's darker than the hot rod red that the calipers are colored but I like the more subtle red against the carbon fiber. If you do get this color and try it yourself be sure to get a can of regular black to lay down as a base coat cause the red metallic specks gets everywhere and is hard to clean off.

 

[Loco_Nomad]

Got rid of all badges big chrome TESLA is more than enough I wish there was a way to get rid of that too

 

[WASD]

Got rid of all badges big chrome TESLA is more than enough I wish there was a way to get rid of that too

I searched for weeks to figure out if the "T" badge was drilled/bolted in rather than the normal 3M tape the other badges use. Thank you for confirming that it comes off clean! Looks great.

 

[miken79]

I debadged just because it's easier to clean. Getting in between the letters was not something I enjoyed doing.

 

[Shiro]

I searched for weeks to figure out if the "T" badge was drilled/bolted in rather than the normal 3M tape the other badges use. Thank you for confirming that it comes off clean! Looks great.

Looks great. I'm going to have to pop the T from the rear of mine, now too.

 

[Loco_Nomad]

I searched for weeks to figure out if the "T" badge was drilled/bolted in rather than the normal 3M tape the other badges use. Thank you for confirming that it comes off clean! Looks great.

Np never liked tons of badges

 

[Terra117]

If you wax the car yourself, removing the badging makes it easier and quicker. Dirt tends to gather in the tight spots in the letters, so even washing is easier without them.

 

[scottm]

I'll debadge only when the chrome effect on the letters starts to splotch and degrade and doesn't look bright and shiny anymore.

But so far, these badges are holding up great, better than some other cars I've had.

When you debadge a model S it starts to look more like a model 3, which is very sparse on badges.