Blacked out or painted badges

Quick question I am blacking out all my badges on my truck, but then I thought about painting one of them a graphite color which would you guys prefer all them graphite or all them black, I have on order color matching doorhandles and mirror cap? Thanks have a great weekend.

 

Hot pink is preferred.
Matches my Hello Kitty plate frame:

No judgement if you went black.

 

Badges? We don’t need no stinkin badges.


(Just remove them I think it looks better and easier to clean)

 

^ This, although I kept my 5.7 badges.
God forbid anyone thought I had a 4.6.
Not likely with the 10" BAM..

Welcome to the forum @Flat chance
Notice how clean that back door looks without the Limited badge..

 

This is my real answer. Just debadge. Truck looks great without stickers and badges all over it.

 

Badges on a beautiful truck are like face tattoos on a beautiful woman.

 

The graphite looks good as well. And it’s a bit different than every other Tundra out there. What brand is the graphite, it’s growing on me. I’m assuming it’s rattle can?

 

This IMO looks the best with those of us who decided to keep the badges. Glad I got them before Toyota demanded the vendor stop making them for us. Bastards.

 

The graphite color is just a rattle can from Duplicolor. I did decide to do all black badges, but I might change it up later and yes that 5.7 badge is pretty cool looking.

 

Thanks John. Do you mask them up and paint them on the truck? Or cut them off and reinstall? Probably a newbie question, but I am a newbie!

 

First owner put the black plastic overlays. Everything black looks best, especially with lighter color, IMO. Badges are also inexpensive so go with black. My last two trucks had silver wheels but wasn't going to fork out that much $$ for black ones. Same with front bumper and grill. Just going to roll with it. No one else really cares that much. Ceramic coating keeps all of that looking good and clean.

 

Mine are just overlays I bought from eBay, and if you were to paint them just paint the overlays before you install, if you were to take them off and spray them it would be harder to get them lined up when you go to put them back on. And a lot easier to take off the overlays to go back to the original in the future

 

I’ve been reticent to buy them from eBay. Had mixed success with some vendors and the quality of their products. But at $190 for OEM from Toyota I’m unable to write that check easily as well. Are you happy with yours? Are you willing to let me know who on eBay you got them from. Thanks for your time.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125900384233 here you go they do fit pretty good. I also got the Matt black inserts for the tailgate

 

Interesting, eBay says they do not fit my 2022 Tundra Limited? I understand the 5.7L badges make no sense, nor does the “4x4” for my 2wd, but did the “Limited” and “Tundra” emblems change size?

 

That I am not sure of, but they did fit pretty good on my 2020 tundra did not realize you had a 2022. Sorry.

 

Hi BigEd. Did you ever get your badges for your Tundra?

 

Yep, Debadge for the Win! (Kept my Black Limited Badges though)