I need to respray the rear door on the Outback, want to take the badges off to do a proper job.

 

So, best way to remove them so I can glue them back on later?

15 minutes with a hair dryer. get the emblem just hot enough to melt the adhesive without too hot that it damages it.

 

also make sure it's not fastened or bolted on, which i can't think of any bolted subaru emblems so should be clear.

 

a google search of "how to debadge a car" will bring up a billion hits.

i always just use a hair dryer and then dental floss to slowly pull back the badge from one end to the other.

when I did mine I used the sun (I was down south) and my credit card.

 

goo gone might get the rest off.

If dental floss alone doesn't work, gently heat. When I de-badged my '98 GT one of the badges had "Pins" that fit into little holes.. but, if you're putting them back on then that doesn't matter.

looks like im not the only one that learned that the legacy badge was pinned through the hatch.

I'll try the hair drier... it appears to be held on with double sided black tape of some kind.

I usually use fishing line and kind of "saw" through the adhesive, then use an adhesive remover to get the rest off

Hair drier for ancient pinstripes too?

Well I used the good ol' Australian sun and a piece of nylon fishing line. Worked very easy. Bit of meths to clean of the paint work ready for sanding.

Now I just need to find something to glue them back on with... Thinking maybe some of the sikaflex windscreen glue I've got...