Hey gang, just wanted to share what the OEM black bowties look like once installed.
The GM part number for the kit is 84047181.
The front emblem is held in place by some prongs and four plastic spring type clips that are molded into the back of it. The instructions with the kit say to snip off or push the original emblem clips to the side in order to remove it, but I was able to just pull on one side at a time and detach it from the car without breaking anything. If you go by the instructions it looks like you'd probably have to remove the front grill in order to access the rear of the emblem. Much easier to just yank it off from the front. The new black emblem snaps right on in the same way and since it uses the posts and clips it is perfectly aligned.
The rear emblem is more of a pain. It's just stuck on the back of the car with really strong adhesive. The instructions with the kit say to mark off where the emblem goes with erasable marker or masking tape, but on our cars this isn't really necessary as the plastic where the emblem sits is molded in the exact shape of the emblem so you can't really mess it up and put it in the wrong place. The adhesive is super strong. It would be best if you could heat it up with a heat gun or hair dryer (which is what the instructions suggest), but being that I didn't have one of those handy I just used a plastic interior panel pry tool and was able to pull enough of the emblem away for me to get a grip on it and then pull the whole thing off pretty cleanly. There was some residual adhesive left on the car but that was easily removed by carefully pulling it away from the car while constantly adjusting the grip so I was always pulling from the piece very close to the car (if you pull it too far without adjusting your grip it will just rip). After that was done I wiped the area down with the included alcohol prep pad and then stuck the new emblem on by just lining it up with the part of the black plastic that is shaped exactly like the bowtie.
I really like the look of the black emblems on my gray car... the yellow was too distracting for me. Now if I can just find a way to change out the wheel center caps to get rid of all the yellow... and the center of the steering wheel...
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The GM part number for the kit is 84047181.
The front emblem is held in place by some prongs and four plastic spring type clips that are molded into the back of it. The instructions with the kit say to snip off or push the original emblem clips to the side in order to remove it, but I was able to just pull on one side at a time and detach it from the car without breaking anything. If you go by the instructions it looks like you'd probably have to remove the front grill in order to access the rear of the emblem. Much easier to just yank it off from the front. The new black emblem snaps right on in the same way and since it uses the posts and clips it is perfectly aligned.
The rear emblem is more of a pain. It's just stuck on the back of the car with really strong adhesive. The instructions with the kit say to mark off where the emblem goes with erasable marker or masking tape, but on our cars this isn't really necessary as the plastic where the emblem sits is molded in the exact shape of the emblem so you can't really mess it up and put it in the wrong place. The adhesive is super strong. It would be best if you could heat it up with a heat gun or hair dryer (which is what the instructions suggest), but being that I didn't have one of those handy I just used a plastic interior panel pry tool and was able to pull enough of the emblem away for me to get a grip on it and then pull the whole thing off pretty cleanly. There was some residual adhesive left on the car but that was easily removed by carefully pulling it away from the car while constantly adjusting the grip so I was always pulling from the piece very close to the car (if you pull it too far without adjusting your grip it will just rip). After that was done I wiped the area down with the included alcohol prep pad and then stuck the new emblem on by just lining it up with the part of the black plastic that is shaped exactly like the bowtie.
I really like the look of the black emblems on my gray car... the yellow was too distracting for me. Now if I can just find a way to change out the wheel center caps to get rid of all the yellow... and the center of the steering wheel...
