I can have the badge off the car in 2 min or less. Take the clips that hold the top edge of the bumper off and use a stubby screwdriver. You don't even have to take off all of the clips, 2 of them is enough. I had the badges off of my 9 the say I bought it, but it doesn't look good w/o the front badge because of the bracket behind the badge. So I painted mine black and reinstalled it.

No Badge:


Painted Badge:


IMO if you paint the whole badge instead of just the chrome part it looks better, since the black color is more uniform.

 

maybe I have to take more clips out. I tried that, just saw that stubby screwdriver going down....was not in the mood for dealing with that

I agree though, it looks better with a black badge in there.

 

+1 on the black badge look. Very happy with mine!

 

Love this mod!

Superhatch, could you post more pics of your car further away? I'd love how to see how the black Mitsu badge works with the whole car.