Lift Gate Badge held on/in with adhesives or pins?

[MazdaMike99]

Hey all, I've got a 2024 CX-5 Carbon Turbo and I was wondering if anyone knew if the badges on the lift gate were held on/in with adhesives or pins? I’m considering de-badging the lift gate but I haven’t been able to get a straight answer on the lift gate badges. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.

 

[paris1]

Pins

 

[RedBaron]

On our 2019, most badges were just stuck on, with the exception of the Mazda "M" emblem in the center, which has pins.

 

[sm1ke]

If you don't want to wait for others to reply, the best way to know without first removing the badges is to look for the OEM part numbers of the badges/emblems and then search for pictures using those part numbers. For example, I found the part number for the CX-5 emblem here. Then I did a Google search for "mazda KN0V-51-720" and found some listings that show the back of the emblem, which show that the C and X are pinned, but the hyphen and the 5 are not.

 

[a69mach1377]

Or you can cover the badges with plastidip...for a black out effect.

 

[N7turbo]

Or you can cover the badges with plastidip...for a black out effect.

That's the best you can do, because you will leave holes if you remove them.

 

[chickdr]

It is interesting they use pins. Many folks like to debadge these days and some makes, Porsche for example, allow customers to order the car without badging from the factory.

 

[MazdaMike99]

Thanks for the reply. Would you happen to know how difficult or easy it would be to get them off?

It is interesting they use pins. Many folks like to debadge these days and some makes, Porsche for example, allow customers to order the car without badging from the factory.

Yeah it is a bit off. I mean I guess most manufacturers assume the majority of people don’t care or pay attention to the badging but it’d be nice if Mazda gave us an option to opt out of factory badges

 

[RedBaron]

The pins are for location only. The badges are only held on with double-sided tape.

 

[chickdr]

The pins are for location only. The badges are only held on with double-sided tape.

But there are still holes in the body for the pins.

 

[RedBaron]

But there are still holes in the body for the pins.

Well, duh, yeah I was replying to the question about how difficult or easy it is to get them off.

 

[chickdr]

Well, duh, yeah I was replying to the question about how difficult or easy it is to get them off.

The point of the OP asking was to find out if they could be removed for debadging. If there will be holes left behind, debaging is kind of off the table (unless you want to do some bodywork too)...

 

[Mazdiod2]

The point of the OP asking was to find out if they could be removed for debadging. If there will be holes left behind, debaging is kind of off the table (unless you want to do some bodywork too)...

A person might want to reuse the holes to mount a different badge, I guess. Maybe a Hyundai, Nissan, or maybe a european make. I'm not sure why.

 

[shawnee]

Hey all, I've got a 2024 CX-5 Carbon Turbo and I was wondering if anyone knew if the badges on the lift gate were held on/in with adhesives or pins? I’m considering de-badging the lift gate but I haven’t been able to get a straight answer on the lift gate badges. Any info would be helpful. Thanks.

If the CX-5 badges are anything like the 2nd-gen CX-9, then they’re held in with pins. I wanted to debadge my car as well but decided not to since pins hold down the badges.

 

[sm1ke]

To add, if one wants to avoid bodywork after removing the pinned emblems, it's possible to buy small vinyl stickers that are colour matched to the paint, to "seal" the holes and reduce the appearance of them.