I got debadged! It is now a YBRID

I found a website you can buy a H from for $5. Saves you $30 from having to buy the entire word!



Sorry, only mildly funny. That sucks, sorry to hear that. I had someone steal an emblem off of a car once and it made me crazy!

 

Maybe they were looking to take the whole thing, and it broke, lol. I picture some fool wanting it as a bling necklace pendant.

 

Yes, you are lucky...

Recently, my friend had his three week old '08 Prius keyed by some donkey in a supermaket parking lot in Coral Springs, Florida.

Someone witnessed this vandalism and took down the plate number of the perpetrator and gave it to my friend when he returned to his car. Luckily, the witness was recently a victim of a hit and run driver and was willing to ID the perp.

My friend called the Sheriff's Department and a couple of hours later, the guy was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.

What was this imbecile's reason for keying my friend's car? He said that he didn't like "tree huggers"!

The estimate to repair the down to the metal scratch was $1,200!

 

I love this story. Thank goodness the perp didn't have a gun.

 

My suspicion is that the maggot was after the whole badge. The front fender
HybridSD badges are the most difficult to get off in one peice, even when
you have lots of time. The problem is that the HYB are connected by only a
thin strip of plastic where they meet at the top, and the 3M tape is tenaciously
sticky. The letters break away individually very easily... especially if you're in
a hurry.

Go here for new badges at $17.22 +shipping:

Auto Parts People

Hope this helps.

Don't ask how I know this.

 

Sounds like the witness just took down the license plate number and didn't try to intervene so this shouldn't have been a problem.

 

:rockon:

 

You can buy a new Hybrid badge, but I've heard that some of them are taped on and some of them have a hole underneath (I don't know how they attach).

 

check lexus I hear from there commercials they are stealing h's

 

HomeandRanch,

You're most welcome.

Use the search function with "debadging" as the search term. There are a
number of threads with differing methods, all of them seem to work well,
and are surprisingly effective and easy.

The essential part common to all the various approaches is to heat up the
badge/fender. Just letting the car sit with the badge facing the hot, 80 deg
F+ sun for half an hour is enough.

Also, on the holes; they are standard in the USofA after 2006 IIRC.
Apparently they are register marks for the side marker lights in the EU and
Asian markets. I suspect the only reason the USofA (and Canada?) have the
fender badges is to cover up the holes...

Or it's Toyota's attept to foil the intentional complete debebadging of the Prius.
HSD in their claim to fame, and arguably a major marketing element.

Good Luck.

 

that would be hilarious, anyone that notices would be like Wth

 

Hi All,

Saw a late model Subaru Legacy with HSD in a fast food store parking lot. Probably should have called the police on him. But some people do take all the badges off, and figured they sell em on Ebay.

 

Hi TonyP...,

How about HEMI-RID ?!

 

HEMI?? If you're going to go over the top with humor, go WAY over the top. Put a Hummer logo on it! Everyone knows it's more earth-friendly than a Prius.

I'm starting to like the idea for my super-white...

 

Actually, I was thinking that the perp would have shot the car instead of just keying it.

There's also the danger he would wait for the owner to return to really express his hatred for treehuggers.

 

donee,

there is actually a twisted, but flawed, logic at work here.

In some jurisdictions, you get special considerations by showing a PZEV --
Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle -- badging on a vehicle. I know from trying to
buy Subaru PZEV badges, that Subaru controls the distribution of their PZEV
badges with an iron fist.

http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-m...d-subaru-pzev-badges-gasp.html?highlight=pzev

Subaru dealers can order them only by providing the VIN of a vehicle that
was equipped to warrant the badge when it was built. New badges are
virtually impossible to get after-market. (I found one that was debadged...
It's actually five separate pieces. I'd call it "used but good," 8.5 on a scale of
10)

So, if the micscreant you saw was trying to pass off his non-PZEV Subie as
the real thing, it is quite possible that when his two functioning neurons
fired, the insectoid thought, "What the hell, the Prius HSD badgeiing must be
just as good."

You can get any of the Prius' badging -- HSD, HybridSD, Prius -- at
numerous sites on the internet... price is a little steep, but they're readily
available.

Interestingly, the Prius has a cheezy outside-the-glass PZEV sticker... it looks
like an afterthought, really bush league for something Toyota claims is
important in their corporate world-view. But then, nobody would steal a cheezy
little, hard to see window sticker, would they?

 

I say an eye for an eye! Cut one of the dirt bags fingers off, or an ear!