Front Badge

[Michele marcus]

I am having a hard time deciding between the Oval Vintage “K”, Oval “E”, or the round OEM “E” to replace the KIA badge on front hood. I have the 2019 Panthera Metal premium model and am female if that makes any difference!! Difficult choosing without seeing in person.... I would especially love to hear from those of you who have seen or replaced with these emblems.

 

[MerlintheMad]

No male is going to attempt to decide for you, if we know what's good for us. I have the oval "K" skin. It still looks good after a year and a half on. You can always remove it (change your mind, win-win).

 

[CeramicGT001]

Another good option to make your decision more difficult
OEM Style Oval Kia Stinger Badge/Emblem - KIA STINGER DOT COM

 

[jellyman]

I like the oem round e logo, but this would be my second choice.



edit: I wasn't trying to be funny. This is oem badge for K900 with red background. I like subtle changes.

 

[Michele marcus]

No male is going to attempt to decide for you, if we know what's good for us. I have the oval "K" skin. It still looks good after a year and a half on. You can always remove it (change your mind, win-win).

Lol!

 

[RedCal]

I did the Oval K - (with carbon fiber B/G) (as seen in my pic to the left) As I wasn't fond of the two upperlines on the Vintage Oval. For me it was a toss up between the Round E, and Oval K, - Picked the Oval K as I thought it looked classier (IMHO)
I can post a bigger pic if it helps you decide

 

[Michele marcus]

I did the Oval K - (with carbon fiber B/G) (as seen in my pic to the left) As I wasn't fond of the two upperlines on the Vintage Oval. For me it was a toss up between the Round E, and Oval K, - Picked the Oval K as I thought it looked classier (IMHO)
I can post a bigger pic if it helps you decide

Looks very nice... R u happy with it?

 

[RedCal]

Very happy with it... I got lazy and paid a well reviewed local body shop to do it for me, $40 cash for the front and rear badge removal and install the new ones
I don't think I could have bought the supplies and tools for less

 

[Michele marcus]

Very happy with it... I got lazy and paid a well reviewed local body shop to do it for me, $40 cash for the front and rear badge removal and install the new ones
I don't think I could have bought the supplies and tools for less

Yes, I will be having a body shop do it as well. Did you get the supplies from Sal?

 

[RedCal]

I bought them off Amazon from a Korean seller, but that was before I found this forum... Big pic from my profile

 

[NS_Stinger]

I went with the OEM E badge on my Panthera Metal. I always prefer OEM stuff and when people ask it's easy to explain that it's the Korean badge. I think the E badge has an upscale look to it more suitable to the car.

 

[NS_Stinger]

Here is a picture after a hand wash today.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Here is a picture after a hand wash today.View attachment 39352

Nice! Almost menacing looking. I saved it to my "calendar options" folder.

 

[Michele marcus]

Another good option to make your decision more difficult
OEM Style Oval Kia Stinger Badge/Emblem - KIA STINGER DOT COM

Uh Oh

 

[2Slo4u]

Here’s mine

 

[AristotsirA]

Another good option to make your decision more difficult
OEM Style Oval Kia Stinger Badge/Emblem - KIA STINGER DOT COM

I ordered the rebadge kit a couple months ago, finally got some nice weather + free time yesterday to debadge the car only to find the front badge indicated in the pic doesn't have any curvature to it to match the contours of the front fascia. Instead it's completely flat and the gaps top and bottom are about 2 mm.

Is this supposed to be flat or did I get a bad one?

 

[MerlintheMad]

Is this supposed to be flat or did I get a bad one?

Flat ones are just flat. I don't know what owners are doing to make them look "good". I have "K" skins over the KIA OE badges, so, a different sort of problem when the edges don't stay entirely down. If the badge looks good from c. six feet away (mine do) then, in my humble opinion, they are doing their job.

 

[Scotty B]

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I ordered the rebadge kit a couple months ago, finally got some nice weather + free time yesterday to debadge the car only to find the front badge indicated in the pic doesn't have any curvature to it to match the contours of the front fascia. Instead it's completely flat and the gaps top and bottom are about 2 mm.

Is this supposed to be flat or did I get a bad one?

I just did my rebadge a couple days ago. I love the 3D stinger logo. It is supposed to be flat; if you look at the OEM badge, it is flat on the back, just curved on the top.

 

[AristotsirA]

Flat ones are just flat. I don't know what owners are doing to make them look "good". I have "K" skins over the KIA OE badges, so, a different sort of problem when the edges don't stay entirely down. If the badge looks good from c. six feet away (mine do) then, in my humble opinion, they are doing their job.

Perhaps it is just an exercise of needing to better manage my expectations.

I noticed the overlay stickers for steering wheel and wheel caps are going to have a similar problem to yours. For the steering wheel there really isn't much recourse; however I'm thinking of running a bead of clear silicone along outer edge of wheel cap inserts just to keep the crud out when I put the stickers over the top.

 

[Scotty B]

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Perhaps it is just an exercise of needing to better manage my expectations.

I noticed the overlay stickers for steering wheel and wheel caps are going to have a similar problem to yours. For the steering wheel there really isn't much recourse; however I'm thinking of running a bead of clear silicone along outer edge of wheel cap inserts just to keep the crud out when I put the stickers over the top.

I put the Stinger wheel caps on as well and they came out great. Once you get them on just firmly press around the edges. Looks like they came that way.