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Do I Or Not? 16v Badging

#1 MattJ

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 08:27 PM

I'm always thinking up new ideas - the '16v' badges as seen on Saxo VTS' - shall I put one on the bottom right hand side of my Puma's boot?

Would it look naff or great??

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 08:29 PM

naff

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 08:59 PM

Not unless it's to go with your '5 Speed Gearbox' side flash sticker, as seen on an 80s Lada Riva

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 09:03 PM

16 valves is nothing to shout about these days.

How about a VCT badge?

Mind you, it'd still look naff...

(the beauty of mathematics)

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 09:36 PM

Thanks people.

It was just a 2 second thought I had earlier today.

Less is more eh!

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 09:47 PM

QUOTE (MattJ @ Dec 29 2005, 09:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks people.

It was just a 2 second thought I had earlier today.

Less is more eh!

As Mercedes once said, it's what you don't put on rather than what you do that counts

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Posted 29 December 2005 - 10:42 PM

nope....keep it standard.

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 01:05 AM

QUOTE (MattJ @ Dec 29 2005, 08:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm always thinking up new ideas - the '16v' badges as seen on Saxo VTS' - shall I put one on the bottom right hand side of my Puma's boot?

Would it look naff or great??

You could add

ABS

OHC

i, FI or INJ

All been badged on one car or another in the past.

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 10:36 AM

i just think it would be a pointless excercise

And might put a potential buyer off when you come to sell.

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#10 Big Boy Al

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 10:45 AM

dont do it mate.

ive seen so many cars around with the same vts 16v badge on ranging from fiat pandas to corsas and allsorts.

dont be one of the chavs

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 10:57 AM

I quite like the fact that Ford didn't put anything but the Ford badge on the tailgate. The car is so distinctive, it doesn't need any advertising. It's also a conversation starter. The FRP hasn't even got Puma written on it anywhere on the outside. A petrol station attendant once asked me 'What kind of Ford is that then?' Brought a smile to my face. I then bored the pants off him with my potted history of the FRP speech.

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 11:49 AM

QUOTE (Mountain Lion @ Dec 30 2005, 10:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

A timeshare salesman, who'd watched me arrive and park the FRP (nose on to the window he was looking out of) guessed "Porsche?"

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 01:06 PM

There was one badge put on the Puma tailgate in Europe and this was an ABS badge on the 1.7 Puma.
I know as my first Puma came with this badge as was the practice in Belgium to place a badge on the boot as ABS was an option.
Also the very first 1.4 came with this badge to in the UK where the buyer bought the option as it was an extra when the 1.4 first came out.
There is a picture in the Gallery of this badge.

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 02:45 PM

It's best with no extra stick on badges, more classy that way.
If it had come with an ABS one, I'd have pulled it off.

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 03:00 PM

then I assume you have pulled that tacky RS badge off the boot then

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 03:02 PM

No, I mean the Puma. I'll take it how it comes, unless it's something stupid like ABS. I mean, why!? Just seems a really odd thing to stick on the boot. The Puma has much cooler things than ABS...

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 03:15 PM

I guess that from an informative point of view, 'ABS' might be the most useful badge to the driver behind you.

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 04:09 PM

Like I say, it was just a thought. Won't be putting any badges on it.

Just wondering whether to remove rear wiper to go with the less is more look!

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 05:09 PM

QUOTE (MattJ @ Dec 30 2005, 04:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Like I say, it was just a thought. Won't be putting any badges on it.

Just wondering whether to remove rear wiper to go with the less is more look!

Yeah.....why not get rid of the wingmirrors,aerial,door handles and bumpers while your there!!!

Why ruin a GREAT car??

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Posted 30 December 2005 - 05:21 PM

QUOTE (MattJ @ Dec 30 2005, 04:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just wondering whether to remove rear wiper to go with the less is more look!

go with what you like and want to do

any modifications are personal taste but it doesn't stop those who want to if no one else likes them, each to our own, let's face it I have bright red mud flaps and a boy racer sun strip

but I like them

it helps if what ever you do is reverisble though so that if you sold the car on you could remove your mods before advertising.