Trunk emblem insert

[Keith W Colonna]

when removing my trunk medallion from C56B1917 I found that the plastic insert piece appears retained by a metal shield riveted in place. I removed one of these on another MKII C56A1773 and the plastic piece was directly accessible with no plate. I guess I need to drill off the heads?....or chisel them upright and try to re-peen them? any advice?

[lld]

Keith,

If you do a search, I think there is a thread on this. I think people drill and tap holes in the studs to reinstall and use screws to hold the metal shield and insert in place.

Larry

[jdsnoddy]

Check out this posting. Please review the entire thing. Hope this helps. John
https://www.markiiforum.com/showthre...=Trunk+plastic

[Keith W Colonna]

Hello Larry, John,
Thanks much for this advice and the link to the prior postings. I tried to search, but didn't come up with anything.
And although I re-sponsored (only bronze) I find there are some features not accessible to me. I tried to attach photos and got a error message that "I have exceeded my quota". I reduced the size of the image....and got the same error message. I tried to email Shelly and got a message that the feature was "disabled".
The reason I wanted to remove the plastic medallion was to gain better access to the spring for the knight's head. Instead of drilling out the swaged rivets,I worked around that. I made a tool to twist and push the spring back onto the post of the knight's head. I took a dowel smaller than the spring coil diameter, cut a notch in it, captured the spring end and pushed it down onto the post. I wish I could post the picture. It's been 60 hours since I renewed my sponsorship...I'll try again after the holiday

[Don Henschel]

I always see them on ePay all the time after I purchased one or more years ago thinking they were a rare item. And then there was the debate on repop vs NOS with members saying they were repop but the ones I purchased match my original in every way.