I have a 1981 300 SD and was wondering if anyone has ever taken out their hood emblem? Reason I ask is that I plan to use this as a daily driver and i want a "security feature" if you will to prevent people from stealing my 3 pointed star. If anyone was any advice that would be great!!

There are removeable hood stars out there. If that doesn't appeal, I've seen a flat badge replacement.

Where would I find one of the removable ones?
Thanks

Check with Phil at FastLane -- he can probably get you one.

I bought a removable tri-star several years back and never installed it. If I can find it I'll sell it to you for $5 to cover the cost of shipping & handling. Send a private message.
regards,
Mark

The mercedes stars are cheap. The star's only 25 dollars with the whole assebmly peice. Its usually the damage people do trying to steal it. Like I've had people take a scrapper to the my rear mercedes star...cost 400 to fix small dent and repaint the whole trunk. I wounldn't worry about the star, more so the damage from amatur mercedes star stealers.

My uncle owned a older E class, and he had a theft problem at work. Mercedes actually has the flat coin style mercedes badge which you place in the hood instead and problem solved. He got it from a Mercedes dealer. If you want to try that give your dealer a call.

Where can I find a flat badge replacement for the hood star (mine looks like *****).

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Ian White

1995 E300 Diesel w124 OM606
2014 E550 w212 M278 biturbo

2001 BMW 740i E38 M62 (past)
1981 300SD w126 OM617 (past)

Yeah, a problem. Someone tried to steal mine off the 300D the other weekend, just got it off center instead of breaking it off.

If mine was at risk of being stolen, or was and I was still parking in the same place, I'd just not replace it.

Can't steal it if it's not there.

Now, if they go for the one on the 280, that's another story!

Peter

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1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!

Mine was stolen last night, probably by drunk hooligans, I'm in college and parking it on campus. This morning I was outraged... the car just looks incomplete without the emblem. I'm worried that if I replace it will just get stolen again next weekend.

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1992 300D 2.5T 249k - Parked with a bad transmission
1981 300SD 142k - Daily driver

Mercedes hood emblems on eBay:

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I had a customer of mine call me to come replace his on his 140 car because his custom made theft proof one worked,but still needed replaced.
He got so tired of punks stealing his hood emblem that he had a guy custom modify his with the inner portions of the star filed razor sharp so if someone grabbed it and pulled it would darn near cut their finger off.
Well, sure enough, he was staying in a hotel in Florida and came out the next morning to find his hood emblem broken ,but still partially intact with blood all over the front of his car.
He was so happy that it worked, but he still had to replace it, and yes, I wore rubber gloves.
They did find out who did it.
It was a hotel employee who had called off the next day because he had to get stitches in his pointer finger due to a deep "carpentry injury."
The hotel refunded his money,and informed him that the employee had been terminated.

I had a friend that was sued for installing razor blades behind his stereo. He made it such that they would very seriously injure the hands of anyone trying to remove the stereo who didn't know they were there. About 8 months later someone smashed out his back window, got in the car and proceded to attempt to remove the stereo. The guy got 12 stitches in his fingers and my friend got royally screwed in the court case.

When my merc belonged to my gradfather, the emblem had been stolen probably once a year if not more. The car has seen more than 20 new emblems, surprisingly without much damage to anything else on the front of the car. I have one of them that the would be thief/vandal only got half way off before giving up.

First post for me...
My emblem wasn't stolen, but I wouldn't mind as my trunk emblem is pretty oxidized. I currently have a 500SL stuck on the trunk and was looking to replace it.

I have been searching for a 380SL trunk model/series emblem and cannot find it. Does anyone know where I can pick up a new/used model emblem or what to search for?

Also, looking for a simple "how to apply" step by step. Any help from the experts??? I'm a mechanical doofus.

recently some prison inmates were found to be hiding cellphones up their butts. if that hood emblem is that critical to the quality of your life you might consider following suit.

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