Badgeless FTW

[MitchFong]

If your going with the simple, clean, badgeless look dont make your interior look tacky. Keep the theme running.

+1
My car is losing the badge when it gets painted. along with that, antenna is being shaved, and door mouldings are also out of there.

[E30 Wagen]

How is it pretentious? If anything its less pretentious.

It's like you're saying, "Yah, I'm a 'leet e30 modder and the lame model badge is unworthy of my modding skills. I don't know what BMW was thinking when putting numbers on the trunk, idiots totally cramping my modding style..."

If it's OCD to have things look symmetrical and balanced by debadging, i'm the other way in that I like things to look original and complete and in place where it belongs. If I had some serious upgrades like an engine swap and significant exterior changes, then it would feel equally as odd to me having the original badge in place.

[MR 325]

It's like you're saying, "Yah, I'm a 'leet e30 modder and the lame model badge is unworthy of my modding skills. I don't know what BMW was thinking when putting numbers on the trunk, idiots totally cramping my modding style..."

If it's OCD to have things look symmetrical and balanced by debadging, i'm the other way in that I like things to look original and complete and in place where it belongs. If I had some serious upgrades like an engine swap and significant exterior changes, then it would feel equally as odd to me having the original badge in place.

I feel my car is worth being debadged :)

[E30trash]

I feel my car is worth being debadged :)

why isn't your car stock? AAAAAHHAHHAHA jk lol omg wtf!!!!111!one!


can't most people go buy a new bmw without a badge?

[Jand3rson]

It's like you're saying, "Yah, I'm a 'leet e30 modder and the lame model badge is unworthy of my modding skills. I don't know what BMW was thinking when putting numbers on the trunk, idiots totally cramping my modding style..."

Damn dude, calm the fuck down. You are reading WAY too much into this. Find one instance where anyone that debadged has ever said anything like that.

I removed it because I think it looks good. I'm not crazy about a literally 11 3/4" long chrome badge on one side of my trunklid. That's all there is too it. I don't like the debadge on every single E30.

And it sounds to me like you're "leet e30 modder".

can't most people go buy a new bmw without a badge?

Yes, for about the last 5 or so years, BMW has had the option to get the car without the model designation badge. A lot of car companies do.

So apparently, even BMW gives less of a fuck about it than E30 Wagen.

[E30 Wagen]

I am calm, and yeah I know I probably get too psychological on this stuff sometimes, sorry, but I like thinking deep and analyzing motives, especially when you respond like you just did... To clarify the "pretentious" explaination which you seem to have glazed over, I'm simply making fun of those shallow people who unconciously get their mind set on this modding style (not just e30's) and that any change to the exterior of their car, especially defacing its model identity, is just way cool and puts them at a level of BMW ownership higher than those apparently ignorant of what BMW style is all about. Whether or not it looks acceptable isn't what I care about so much, it's the mentality that somebody has which I simply can't get past, calling its absence a "mod" and saying how its great subtly is a major aesthetic improvement. The topper though is when their car is relatively stock or even with standard upgrades when they feel it's necessary for the badge to go, and then including "debadged" in their cardomain list of "mods." Lame. Or if someone has a special model, for instance a Nissan SE-R, I don't understand why he would remove it. Just seems to kill its uniqueness. You argue your car is in fact more unique to run around the streets without a model tag in a stock looking car [to the untrained eye]? Only to you it is and of course that's something I can't touch. To me it just looks like some salvage job and I don't understand why most can't ever see it like that. Or maybe they think it's cool, like some fast and furious scene rescuing the toyota supra from the junkyard and rebuilding it only with performance parts. Whatever... Of course nobody has said anything like I wrote when they debadge their car, give me a break. If I ever get an 'i' cam and valve springs and IM and EM and ecu, then i will probably run badgeless for a while just because it won't feel right having that "es" on the back [when it should be 327iS?], also when the trunk gets new paint. As for the debadged look, i'll probably never agree with it. That's just my brain. All I see an 11 3/4" blank space. Like I said, my OCD level prefers the official factory look, and I'll be ordering a new BMW with the model tag in place.

Or are you still offended by previous overgeneralization you insecure twenty-something?

[Jand3rson]

Ha ha ha, right. Insecure.

I never thought removing my badge would create this kind of an uproar. It's actually pretty funny.

But whatever. I know the exact kind of fuckwads you're talking about, but I'm not one of the people you're describing, and it looks like you know that, so no big deal, no offense taken. :up:

[E30trash]

I am calm, and yeah I know I probably get too psychological on this stuff sometimes, sorry, but I like thinking deep and analyzing motives, especially when you respond like you just did... To clarify the "pretentious" explaination which you seem to have glazed over, I'm simply making fun of those shallow people who unconciously get their mind set on this modding style (not just e30's) and that any change to the exterior of their car, especially defacing its model identity, is just way cool and puts them at a level of BMW ownership higher than those apparently ignorant of what BMW style is all about. Whether or not it looks acceptable isn't what I care about so much, it's the mentality that somebody has which I simply can't get past, calling its absence a "mod" and saying how its great subtly is a major aesthetic improvement. The topper though is when their car is relatively stock or even with standard upgrades when they feel it's necessary for the badge to go, and then including "debadged" in their cardomain list of "mods." Lame. Or if someone has a special model, for instance a Nissan SE-R, I don't understand why he would remove it. Just seems to kill its uniqueness. You argue your car is in fact more unique to run around the streets without a model tag in a stock looking car [to the untrained eye]? Only to you it is and of course that's something I can't touch. To me it just looks like some salvage job and I don't understand why most can't ever see it like that. Or maybe they think it's cool, like some fast and furious scene rescuing the toyota supra from the junkyard and rebuilding it only with performance parts. Whatever... Of course nobody has said anything like I wrote when they debadge their car, give me a break. If I ever get an 'i' cam and valve springs and IM and EM and ecu, then i will probably run badgeless for a while just because it won't feel right having that "es" on the back [when it should be 327iS?], also when the trunk gets new paint. As for the debadged look, i'll probably never agree with it. That's just my brain. All I see an 11 3/4" blank space. Like I said, my OCD level prefers the official factory look, and I'll be ordering a new BMW with the model tag in place.

Or are you still offended by previous overgeneralization you insecure twenty-something?

WOW!.............jk

I like your thinking, but let's agree to disagree

[96 Cosmos]

E30 Wagen: wow, defining the reason I seldom post on this board. Noise!

Eurospeed: your car looks good with no badge!

I'm digging the no badge look recently, but then again...I've now got an "i" in my "e".

[GaryE30]

I am calm, and yeah I know I probably get too psychological on this stuff sometimes, sorry, but I like thinking deep and analyzing motives, especially when you respond like you just did... To clarify the "pretentious" explaination which you seem to have glazed over, I'm simply making fun of those shallow people who unconciously get their mind set on this modding style (not just e30's) and that any change to the exterior of their car, especially defacing its model identity, is just way cool and puts them at a level of BMW ownership higher than those apparently ignorant of what BMW style is all about. Whether or not it looks acceptable isn't what I care about so much, it's the mentality that somebody has which I simply can't get past, calling its absence a "mod" and saying how its great subtly is a major aesthetic improvement. The topper though is when their car is relatively stock or even with standard upgrades when they feel it's necessary for the badge to go, and then including "debadged" in their cardomain list of "mods." Lame. Or if someone has a special model, for instance a Nissan SE-R, I don't understand why he would remove it. Just seems to kill its uniqueness. You argue your car is in fact more unique to run around the streets without a model tag in a stock looking car [to the untrained eye]? Only to you it is and of course that's something I can't touch. To me it just looks like some salvage job and I don't understand why most can't ever see it like that. Or maybe they think it's cool, like some fast and furious scene rescuing the toyota supra from the junkyard and rebuilding it only with performance parts. Whatever... Of course nobody has said anything like I wrote when they debadge their car, give me a break. If I ever get an 'i' cam and valve springs and IM and EM and ecu, then i will probably run badgeless for a while just because it won't feel right having that "es" on the back [when it should be 327iS?], also when the trunk gets new paint. As for the debadged look, i'll probably never agree with it. That's just my brain. All I see an 11 3/4" blank space. Like I said, my OCD level prefers the official factory look, and I'll be ordering a new BMW with the model tag in place.

Or are you still offended by previous overgeneralization you insecure twenty-something?

I like this guy and his thinking.