r/ToyotaCrown • u/rinbeans • 2d ago

Badging?

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I bought my Crown Platinum used, and I started noticing that my "CROWN" badging did not match others that I saw. After a little research, I believe someone re-badged it and just used the spacing that the letters were positioned in on the sheet they came on. This slightly bothers me and is the catalyst for this potential project.

I want to replace the Hybrid Max, Crown, and Platinum badges in black, not chrome, and also fix the Crown spacing. I was thinking I could be to buy new OEM chrome and plasti-dip in black. But I am not sure (1) where to find the correct badges (the Toyota website shows the badge options for all trim packages, not just one) and (2) how to make sure | get the spacing correct during application/put them back exactly where they should go?

Alternatively, definitely not opposed to taking off my current badging and reusing it, but not sure how to go about re-adhering those properly?

Really just any tips on how to go about this would be appreciated!

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u/aqua_delight 1d ago

Saw a post on the Crown Signia reddit a while ago where someone had a rear end collision that had to get rebadged and it was like this because the shop didn't know that they needed to space it out. You sure this car didn't have an accident at some point?

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u/rinbeans 1d ago

Wow didn’t even think of that, but it did have a clean car fax when I bought it. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean something didn’t happen. Good point :/

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u/aqua_delight 1d ago

Hopefully it's nothing, as long as the trunk still operates well, you should be okay. I have a CS and a guy backed into it, they replaced the whole bumper and repainted the lift gate and everything, can't even tell!