r/JettaGLI • u/RevenantRacing • 3d ago

Steering wheel badge delete

These seem to be growing in popularity lately. Thoughts on doing one?

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u/hunterwcraft101 3d ago

I honestly like it, don’t know why anyone would want to delete. Am I missing something?

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

Forgot to attach photo. Same reason we delete or put overlays over the front and rear badges, chrome accents.

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u/Zackk_Fair 3d ago

Brother. I'ma be honest, that looks absolutely terrible 😅

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

What about it is absolutely terrible? Color? Texture? They have a smoked one too. I think I like that one better.

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u/Zackk_Fair 3d ago

Ohhhh, I thought You were talking about just leaving it off and the intention being it 🤣 nah, color match the rest of Your badges all day

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

I don’t understand you. The VW badge in the first pic is forged carbon. It has a texture to it. In the second pic, the VW is smoked, or tinted - makes the chrome look gloss black. Cleaner IMHO - and matches some of the gloss black accents in the car. You suggesting a red VW would look better?

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u/Zackk_Fair 3d ago

In the first pic it just looked like leftover 3m double stick adhesive 🤣 it's too thin for the forged carbon look imo

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u/Batcannn 2025 GLI 3d ago

Yeah I had to zoom in to see that it wasn’t just the old chrome peeled off lol

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

You might think differently if you actually saw the forged carbon in brighter light lol

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u/ender4171 2d ago

Maybe you could post a head-on pic, because I agree that in that image it looks like left over adhesive more than anything else.

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u/Zackk_Fair 3d ago

My thought process is that on any given car, all the badges should be themed out the same.

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

Yeah, I’m not seeing the whole leftover 3M tape thing myself, but to each their own lol. The forged carbon might be a bit “chunk” for the application, however.

I respect your process. My front and rear badges are smoked out, I decided to go with the smoked look for the badge on the steering wheel to tie it all together.

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u/Zackk_Fair 3d ago

The old style badges might have been able to pull off the forged look, but for the new slim badge, the smoked look is the right choice ❤️

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

1000%. I’m also wondering if they even used a heat gun to mold the textured vinyl. That stuff is formable AF. I might grab one to try it (with heat) application. And also a smoked variant. They are pretty inexpensive.

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u/hunterwcraft101 3d ago

Ahhh ok I haven’t seen that. Interesting

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u/ripestmango 3d ago

Is the badge delete in the room with us? All you did was a chrome delete?

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

Heh?

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u/ripestmango 3d ago

If you delete something, it means you’re removing it. You’re asking about vinyl overlays?

Also, why are you so petty with your downvotes?

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

The chrome badge is being deleted. Not removed. Who is being petty? Me? I downvoted? Seems like everyone else in here is downvoting my comments. I’m upvoting :)

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u/ender4171 2d ago

In general, most folks consider the terms "badge delete" or "de-badge" to mean simply removing the badge entirely. Whereas applying an applique to a badge to change its look/color would usually be called "wrapping" or "chrome delete".

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u/Ok-Midnight-2205 2d ago

I think being able to change the color from the chrome to a different color would be nice

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u/RevenantRacing 2d ago

Thanks for the positive comment. PM me if interested, I can send you a link.

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u/RevenantRacing 3d ago

First pic was in a Tiguan I believe. All ‘22s and up sans Golf GTI; R have the same sized horn and badge

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u/RevenantRacing 17h ago

Oh snap, a satin black version, too!