Fine. Tell me where you tracked down the platinum crest with silver shield and I'll just get the whole damn package!
Now the crest is a different story! I made those myself, but the one in the photo is not the final product that is on there now and was just a test crest to see how things would hold up on the road.
I have a chrome hood crest that is beautiful with a burgundy like color rather than red in a deep urethane gloss over it that I wanted to try and seek if I could match on the wheels. Months of searching turned up nothing out there.
I discovered an EBay seller that had the chrome/black crest you see in this pic but they were gone once I decided to try and do it myself. I contacted him and he said he no longer could place them on EBay as official "Porsche" products, but would gladly sell me a set so I bought two sets, one to practice with and one for the final product.
They are actual concave solid metal crest made to the exact specifications of the original painted Porsche crest, but with thin double sided tape on them to go over the originals. I experimented with different coloring techniques and found that using a lowly red Sharpie pen made it very easy to fill in the spaces I wanted perfectly, and I could do several coats to get the desired color depth. The ink is transparent so the chrome shows though giving the exact same "candy" like burgundy color that my hood crest has.
once I got it right, I applied several coats of clear acrylic gloss enamel to them to protect it all and give them a similar deep gloss the hood crest has. The next trick was to make them look factory which meant no way I'm sticking them over the original crest because you can just tell no matter how thin the tape.
I used a Dremel tool to make a cut in the original gold crest and them carefully tore out the factory crest from the center caps with needle nose pliers. They are glued on using some type of semi flexible Gorilla type glue. The most time consuming thing was removing the double sided tape from the crest and cleaning off the residue with Goof Off. It took a couple hours while sitting in front of the TV.....wasn't hard but just tedious and making sure not to bend the thin metal crest in the process.
Then I used........well, Gorilla glue to replace the crest with mine, and they have been on the car for a year counting the first test versions without any issue and many drives and washings, even using wheel cleaner with no problems.
I need to get some better photos of the final product out in the light where the reflective properties of the crest shines through the final red color I settled on to really appreciate how it turned out. The silver in the crest was one reason I think the silver on the ti lugs looks good because it adds a splash of matching contrast to the otherwise darker wheels. Total project cost is less that $50 including the cost of one set of crest, pen and clear paint.
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