When I shaved the trunk on my coupe, there was a really bad outline from the mt fuji emblem, I had a friend of mine who owns a body shop, wet sand/ cut and buff it.

 

I have buffed many spots out by hand rubbing. Whats wrong with that? You can not get a buffer into tight spots so then what do you do?

 

So i took my car to body shop and had them take a look at it. It turns out that the shadows left behind from the debadge is the original color of the car.(LR) the rest of the car has changed color due to exposure to the sun. there is pretty much nothing that can be done except wait for the shadows to eventually catch up with the rest of car. FML :c ryingcrying:

 

do they know how long it takes?

 

^idk. when im not driving i keep it in the garage. so who knows . its an o6. when i bought it in november the dealer emblem was already off, i took off the G35 in april. could be years

 

damn coz i have an LR too and its pretty hot here in central valley.. lets say 100-101 sometimes and its not really working.. i just debadged mine 2 weeks ago and the fuji and infiniti is hella visible! the thing is ive been havin the car since last year so yea-_-

 

wait

what if you take a clay bar to it ..??

its supposed to lift contaminants off your paint .
i.e. the darker area around ,where your emblems were ..

you might want to do the whole car after if it really does a good job ..

idk just an idea .i guess .. if you try it let us know how it goes ..
k thnx ..

 

^ about to try that this weekend.. hope fully it works.. but i dunno the difference between the two planes are extremely obvious. atleast for my LR that is.. see if i can post some pics up.

 

clay is going to do nothing for it...its like putting a bandaid on your arm and then hangin at the beach all day...you can try to shave off your tanned skin (surrounding area) but chances are its not going to be fixed...

thats why its either a repaint, or debadge right away, not 1 year later! compounding and polishing are your only hope other than a repaint. The miscolored area is not going to CATCH UP...the whole thing will age the same

 

Yea claybar didn't work at all. SO i guess i got another mod on my list. get a new trunk.

 

i used to have this problem with my sedan. the shadow of the infiniti words, infiniti logo, and the g35x, and then i debadge and went with the skyline 350gt. after that i debadge again and have like alot of shadow on it... not even funny(skyline and infiniti over lapping one another) so, i compound that section only with the buffer, god it came off good, bad thing was only that section looks good not the trunk. i had to compound and buff the whole trunk. i lived with the shadows for 3 years that time and it pissed me off. about 7-8 months ago i compound and buff and voila! miracle... i still have a few scratches from those shi**y kids around the way trying to steal the skyline lettering.. god damn kids...

 

i still have yet to take it to a pro detailer.i lack the professional tools to really buff it well. i might as well get the whole done car done.

 

you have detailing dynamics in NY. i would set up an estimate appointment with them to weight your options....

 

There's not too much you can do with it. If the clearcoat is still intact, the actual pigment of the paint has faded.

If you have enough paint to play with, run a medium cut polish over the entire trunk and follow it with a fine cut polish. That will rule out any fading or hazing from the clear coat. If it's still there, wait until it fades and matches, or get a respray.

 

Got this same problem. Reading this helps, hoping to do the same to fix my problem. Thanks