Someone nicked my Kompressor badge! Luckily the paint doesn't look scratched, but a pain all the same.

Does anyone know how to get the badge(s) replaced in London?

Cheers mates!

Such a bummer!

Maybe that bloke was thinking of assembling a Kompressor MB starting with the badge as an item of inspiration?

Hope you'd have a new badge soon.

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... Kerry

126 tailed by a 203, 129 leading the pack.

Did you try PartsShop? They shipped very quickly and were quite reasonable compared to the dealer for everything I've ordered from them, including my Sportline emblems. Good Luck.

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John

2003 Firemist Red/grey leather SL 500
2015 Palladium Silver/black mbtex GLK 350
1987 Smoke Silver/burgundy mbtex 300E Sportline (SOLD)

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Jean Chr.

Just order a badge at the Dealer nearby; the badges are sticked to the car and cost about nothing (MB uses fake and cheap materials for these badges).

If I were you, I would get of the C230 badge as well; nothing is as nice as a clean rear...people will notice that you have a compressor once you floor it (I couldn't keep up with my 300-24's).
Personally I do not like the MB badges; they are only good to gather a lot of dirt that cannot be removed...

talk to you later; greetingz,

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1990 300SL-24
1993 C250D with a minor 600+k kilometer
www.MBenzNL.com(the Netherlands)

The badges are available from the dealer on back order and they are very cheap. However they are difficult to apply in a straight line: Kompressor is--obviously--10 separate letters and if I remember you can't put them on all at once. When I had them re-fitted to the wings of our SLK230k after a little encounter with a tree it took the body shop about four attempts and they still werem't at the correct height (I take it your badge was on the bootlid). Why would anyone want to steal 10 metal letters? It's not as if they can even be re-used since they get all bent up when taken off. And it would take an age to get them off. Surely de-badged is better anyway; I gather on the domestic market just about all cars are de-badged, perhaps BenzNL can advise.

Try cutting out a lenghty piece of tought paper - cardboard like - and with the distance measured from the top base of the boot, and the assumed distance of each letters, you can then apply the letters as straight with military precision instead of the arbitrary guessing of punting the words together.

Just for your future reference or sharing.

Keep well.

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... Kerry

126 tailed by a 203, 129 leading the pack.

ymsin's suggestion is the best I could come up with too. The difficulty is that the individual letters are not actually square-shaped; rather they are fairly rounded and it is easy to apply a letter slightly skewed. The error is all too painfully obvious, however. I still say de-badged is better and also the most authentic: thats how they come in the fatherland.

The separate letters come on one strip and can be stick to the car all-together-in-once.

I have recently driven a SLK230 kompressor and had a close look at the front fender's badges and (as I already thought) the silver gray paint of the car was completely blackened inside and around the letters.

...de-badged is the way to go...(but that is just my personal opinion)

greetingz,

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1990 300SL-24
1993 C250D with a minor 600+k kilometer
www.MBenzNL.com(the Netherlands)

Debadge is the way to go for near perfect body detailing.

I too had my 300se debadge when it received a new coat of Silver. But after a while I got the badge on again as I felt it was kinda incomplete with it.

Having said that, I have this tendency to view other "outstanding" Benzes on the road and sometimes it leaves me guessing whether its a S280 or S320, or whether its a E200 or E280, etc ...

Such an irony?

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... Kerry

126 tailed by a 203, 129 leading the pack.

De-badging the car is cool because it is discreet. In the UK, BMW cars were the first to be offered new with a de-badge option. Back in '89 you would order a dolphin grey 325i, have it de-badged and nobody would know it was a rocket until it blew their doors off. Of course, then the owners of every 316i had them de-badged, so nobody could tell that it was the junior Beemer (my first car, 316, I left the badge on for that reason).

I guess it is an inverted snobbery thing. And, if you're fortunate enough to own a high-powered MB, why shout about it? You know how good your car is, there's no need to let anyone else know. Boasting and bragging is such bad form.

Finally, MB cars (and most other German vehicles) are renowned for their clean lines and pure body styling. Why spoil that with lumps of plastic metal?