992 Turbo Emblem Question

[Tom]

One other caveat regarding a total car PPF and emblems is to never let an installer try to convince you that they can cut around emblems. Pics and examples I've seen are many times worse than reinstalling badges over PPF with overly thick dbl-stick tape. At least you can remove the emblems and the overly thick tape.

This is nice..............

That picture is crazy. I've seen some ugly ppf work, but that's pretty awful! Best advice I ever got was to shop for the best installer, not the best film brand.

Re the emblem, you have a good eye. The dealer closest to me added a Turbo to their website this morning/weekend, so I took my emblem down and compared it to the one on a new car. Sure enough, the 911 and turbo are straight and parallel. When I put mine on top of the car, it was pretty obviously tilted on that end. The little white piece in the pictures below is part of my new template, and the emblem sits flush against the parallel base parts -- so that eliminates one variable anyway....

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[blueline]

That picture is crazy. I've seen some ugly ppf work, but that's pretty awful! Best advice I ever got was to shop for the best installer, not the best film brand.

Re the emblem, you have a good eye. The dealer closest to me added a Turbo to their website this morning/weekend, so I took my emblem down and compared it to the one on a new car. Sure enough, the 911 and turbo are straight and parallel. When I put mine on top of the car, it was pretty obviously tilted on that end. The little white piece in the pictures below is part of my new template, and the emblem sits flush against the parallel base parts -- so that eliminates one variable anyway....

Your emblem must have been twisted a slight bit when it was being removed for the PPF. (The way I've been told is to use very thin monofilament fishing line to remove emblems.) I doubt it came from the factory twisted that way, or did it?? The points where the 911 script attaches to the rest of the emblem are not pillars of strength, but that weakness will help getting it straight if/when you reattach it to your TTS. (It does look good on the door of that very nice Baldhead cabinet!)

In any event, the bend is slight so I am sure it will be easy to reattach it correctly.