i'm thinking of replacing the front grile badge with one, with a red center.

Have anyone here done this? Is it hard to get the old one off?
How is it fixed in place? Glued there or?

 

I switched to red. No problem but previous one will be destroyed. Dealer parts guy warned me before I made purchase. I changed wheel hubs at same time. I have stratus grey.

 

Thanks,

Did you remove it yourself, in that case how? It beeing destroyed is OK. Wheels hubs should be done also.

Mine's also Stratus grey, so I think red will be nice touch.

 

Not sure how the dealer parts guy recommended replacing it, or how you did it, but I have my original black background growler perfectly intact. I had mine replaced when I had to have some front-end repair work done and the body shop had the front bumper off. With the bumper off, the emblem can be removed without any damage by bending the snap clips. Without removing the bumper, I would imagine that it would be difficult to replace without damaging the original. I'd also be concerned about damaging the surrounding plastic pieces in the process however. Good luck.

 

I replaced both of my black ones with red ones. Since they both were clued on with double sided foam tape they were both destroyed when I heated them up with a heat gun and pulled them off. The replacement red growlers were also delivered with double sided foam tape so to me it is not feasible how they could be removed without destroying.

 

Hi Schwabe,

How much did you need to heat it to get it off? So much so that is a risk for the surrounding platics?

Also, when looking at these badges on ebay, it seems like they say they only fit F-Types after a certain VIN (K10666). What might that be due to? Have they really changed the design so early? Or?

 

They changed the color, so perhaps 'fit' means 'exact replacement' in this case.

 

Yeah I suspected it might be something like that. Are thr all red nowdays?

 

I changed my red one for a black one (car is firesand).
I didnt heat it up, just prised the badge off the backing plate very carefully.
I didnt destroy the original badge but it obviously destroys the foam sticky backing.

 

For the '14 MY, they were all black, and all 14s were convertibles
In '15, some were red and some black.
For the '16MY, they are all red.

 

Not much, not hotter than you can touch, blow dryer will suffice ....

 

No big deal! Didn't take anything apart just slowly pried off. Didn't care about old badge.

 

Well, now one is ordered, so we'll see how it goes :-)

Thanks all for your support

 

Now it's done.

I got a new red one from e-bay. I was a bit nervous that the old one would be very hard to get off. But I found a simple way.

I took a 0.5mm nylon fishing line, looped it around the backside of the badge (Luckily the badge is cone shaped so it slides easily in behind). Then I pulled the loop tight, and it directly cut in between the tejp and the badge, and it just pooped off. And its's completely intact.

Just some residue rubber tejp to peel off

An interesting fact that I noticed. The jaguar face on the new badge is slightly different from the old. After googling a bit it seams like Jaguar have changed the design between 2014 and 2015.

 

That's a great tip MrSTarhouse. I was a bit nervous about attacking the badge with a screw driver and heat. Your way sounds nice and easy!

 

Yes it worked like a charm :-)

Only problem now is -22C. Not really Jag Weather. Hopefully a bit better over there in UK.

 

-22! That's cold! This winter has been really mild (but wet) in the UK so far. 9C today.

 

I got my new red badge and the fishing line trick worked a treat. Thanks MrSTarhouse.

 

Also works great if you want to debadge your rear bumper for a clean look .