Another good tip is to use a heat gun to soften everything up before you remove the old emblem. Works like a charm and negates the need for any dental floss or fishing line.
Pretty funny. . . . . . watching your process and problems encountered. I started with your initial idea of using dental floss to loosen the adhesive under the badge. . . . . but found that a flexible plastic spatula worked even better!! And it didn't damage the paint in the process!!
I came to see this video when I was searching for how to change on rear/brake lights bulbs on my Saab 9-5 Biopower combi :) I've changed my front doors due to them being rusty. We can buy old parts at the junkyard with descent quality. I wonder if you, who live in a summer environment all the time and are not exploiting your cars to salty roads, get rust on your Saabs as well? Now when I've watched your video I'll have to take a look at the my emblems :)
Having just de-badged my 93 at the back (93 and 1.8t badges) i was thinking of replacing the Saab emblems front and rear. What a timely vid for me. ebay here i come. Cheers buddy
You still did a great job,with those emblems,in my opinion.Even the nubs on the emblem on the hood broke,it was still a good learning experience,of what not to do.Your video still turned out well,even though the camera fell.It didn't ruin the video.
Hi guys, to remove the front emblem use a credit card like item, most stores do give out those types of cards for discounts, slip it under all the perimeter of the badge once you have about ,5mm space use two plastic spatulas on the left and right of the badge it will pop out without braking the pins if you pior them even
I just removed my old front badge and I also managed to cut my finger in a stupid way. Apparently, when a previous owner replaced the front badge they also snapped those pins off but instead of removing them, they cut off the pins on the new one and stuck it on with two big blobs of epoxy or something like that. While trying to remove those blobs, my hand slipped and the surprisingly sharp edge of the epoxy shaved off quite a bit of skin from my finger.
New Badges are a cheap way to make your car look much newer. A persons eye is drawn to the faded/cracked badges, I know mine are. Spend a few $$ and change them!
Just a suggestion...Hair dryer should loosen adhesive on rear badge before floss and prying tool. For the front badge a small diameter screw should be able to be burrowed into the plastic nubs and then removed while retaining the nubs in the threads of the screw. ( Much like a screw/bolt extractor).
I bought new logos for my saab 93 vert but since I'm wrapping my interior with carbon fiber I figured instead of getting blue background I went with a black and grey carbon background they look dope
We discovered when we changed to the new Black Badges, that the original supplier had a inferior production set up for the Saab badges. Same supplier as for the BMW. For some reason we never discovered that they didn't have the same setup as BMW badge, which they were obligated to have.
I would have drilled the old tabs out of the hood simple eazy peezy. Automotive Paint Thinners or Mineral Turps would have cleaned off the gunk of the old badge easily.
To remove the pins from the groomets just pushed them in with a pick tool they will fall off inside the hood frame...no need to get them...just clean up the paint and install your new emblem..that0s it.
Auto Autopsy Got set of vinyl decals couple of years ago from someone in USA or Canada. Remember was good range to choose from . Black and white for facelift saab 93 . Finally getting last version saab 2011 95 in white .tried ebay but no joy
Auto Autopsy cheers man . Exactly ones I have. Have to contact seller 2 see about post to Ireland. And offer still stands for sorting out gobshite that scammed ya. Ta again. Gentleman and a scholar
I saw your video..but you got rid of the whole groomets incorrectly...just needed to push in the pin that got broken from the emblem ..you just ruined the new emblem by cutting off the pins, just needed to push in the new emblem and the broken pins would have fallen off giving pass to the new emblem pins...thats all.
But you said it wasn’t a Sab ;/ but it’s clearly earthier a early 2000s sab or a 90s I’m not very good at sabs. They are too expensive cars for me to buy. It’s a mechanics car because of the rare parts.
