How to get the tough spots?

[MaximumMD]

Any recommendations on how to clean up the area's around car emblems. Like the toyota, honda, hyundai emblems? There are those tiny areas inside them that I have a hard time getting them polished and all shiny. Is using q-tips the best way to polish and wax them, or does anyone have a better way?

[Dan Metzler]

Shave them off and never look back! Well on your own car anyway, not the customers.

Megs APC+ 4:1 with a brush like this:
Lug Nut Brush,Clean Wheel Brush,clean brake calipers, clean lug nuts, boar's hair wheel brush, best wheel brush, wheel lug nuts (http://autogeek.net/lug-nut-brush.html)
Then like you said......wax the best you can.

[Dubbin1]

A detailing brush and some APC or just use the car soap when washing the car.

[jlb85]

^+1 for just shaving the suckers!

We recently did a black Saab 9-3, and the emblems were wiggly and loose. We discussed it with the owner, and got the OK to remove them. She loved the look! BUT, I tend to like how the central located brand emblems, like the BMW, Audi, Acura, look undisturbed.

Again, another vote for APC and brushes. Toothbrushes, military detail brushes, Q-tips, etc. But most of all: Patience. Just be careful, most brushes will introduce scratches to the paint surrounding the emblem.

The PC with a very soft pad and M105 over the emblems works nice on shallow emblems.

We need a nice 1" pad for the PC ;)

[C. Charles Hahn]

We need a nice 1" pad for the PC ;)

At that point you just need some little felt buffing cones and a cordless Dremel tool...

I've used those to polish metal on grills before, but I'd bet they'd do well on and around emblems too. :props:

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[LuxuryMobile]

I have always used APC and a soft bristle toothbrush.

A tooth brush is such an under rated detailing tool. (makes interior cleaning alot easier too)

[Jeremy]

I use a power toothbrush that an ex gf forgot when we broke up. Works great

[vet]

Be sure to clean it real good if she wants it back! LOL... On second thought, why bother...

[Flash Gordon]

Shave them off and never look back!

:iagree: Your car will look much better without them. Just Do It :props:

[MaximumMD]

How do you shave them off? Never done one before. Do you just heat up the glue and then us a plastic putty knife and just scrape it off?

[Flash Gordon]

How do you shave them off? Never done one before. Do you just heat up the glue and then us a plastic putty knife and just scrape it off?

Fishing line or dental floss works great. You may wanna use a heat gun/hairdryer to help loosen it up a bit, but its not mandatory

After the emblems are removed use a product such as 3M adhesive remover to remove the sticky crap left behind

What year car is this?

[Dan Metzler]

Fishing line or dental floss works great. You may wanna use a heat gun/hairdryer to help loosen it up a bit, but its not mandatory

After the emblems are removed use a product such as 3M adhesive remover to remove the sticky crap left behind

What year car is this?

:iagree:

Yes right on! I also use High Solv for the adhesive and spot buff with 105/205. The one car I did was two days old and they came off sooo easy. Not so much for the older cars, but it can be done.

[J1nx93]

I've used tooth brushes for small things such as that. Like blackz said, they're underrated

[GaDetailDoc]

Same here tooth brush and some mild polish with a micro fibre detailing cloth.

[MaximumMD]

It's just the honda emblem on a black 07 civic SI