Wait! Wait Wait! Don’t tell me. Did I derail this thread?

Gusto!

 

My plans to change the color of or remove the Black Edition badge may have gone sour - it sure looks like the plate with the letters can be removed, but it will leave a mounting pad that is molded into the grille. I’ll keep looking at it.

 

Great! I’ll let you do the heavy lifting to figure this out. When you do please post an tag me….. yes, I’m tat lazy. But I’d definitely remove that fugly looking chrome badge if you find a solution.

Gusto!

 

I was wrong - the Black Edition badge was held in the same way as was shown by @OG_Zuninjain another thread. Gone now!

 

Pics or it didn't happen

 

As mentioned earlier, I put them on my 21 be wht and I'm happy I did. For those who say how could they help being that low obviously don't realize that is first contact point of the doors,but to each their own.

 

My dealer already put the door molding and splash guards (and nitrogen, wheel locks, tint) on my '22 Platinum White Pearl before I got to it. I would of left the moulding off, I prefer a cleaner look, but they're not hideous.

 

That’s awesome. Sounds like a decent dealer. I hope you didn’t have to slaughter and BBQ the fatted calf to pay for it all. We know you paid something for all that. Were you expecting all that to be done?

Congrats on your new truck! Pics?

Gusto!

 

This is what most all dealers are doing now to maximize their profits since inventory is slim pickings. The all know that if YOU don't buy the truck, the next guy will.

 

Well I got the 2022 BE and decided to go ahead and put on the BSM. I do like the clean look without them but I have to say they're not too bad, I'm kind of getting use to them now. Anyway I know a door ding is still possible from the idiots out there but at least I know this will help.

 

So now you will get dings and scuffs on the now permanent BSM vs the door!

 

Now if they made them for the new SGP color.

 

I don't mean to bash anyone's ride (or woman)... everyone likes what they like. But count me in the group that dislikes these for 2 reasons. First, they look out of place and #2- they don't protect anything. I opened the front & back doors on the RDX, and even with these moldings it could still get dinged really bad. These are just an afterthought, like all the other ''official'' accessories. Speaking of...

I spent a lot of time looking through the whole list of 'genuine' accessories and studied how they worked. They either fall into one of two categories for me: #1 useless fluff (a lot of dealers push this crap in their "packages") or #2 looks good superficially but I would lose major functionality.

 

I have a cheap product off Amazon called “Ding Bats” for my now gone Forester. They are nice foam rectangular blocks with magnets inside. When in a tight or suspect parking spot Id pull them out of the hatch and deploy them on the doors. They work. Can some clown just steal them ? Yep, but thats never happened yet and Ive parked in some shady places. Lol
When I return I simply pull them off and tossed them back in the hatch back.


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I have a cheap product off Amazon called “Ding Bats” for my now gone Forester. They are nice foam rectangular blocks with magnets inside. When in a tight or suspect parking spot Id pull them out of the hatch and deploy them on the doors.

I prefer a large roll of bubble wrap and some scotch tape. Five minutes after I park, I have the whole truck protected from dings .

 

At some point you simply can't protect from everything. I was at a stop light under an overpass in my 63 Corvette (see avatar) and some yokel threw a 1/2 full soda can off the overpass and put a nice ding in my hood all the way down to the fiberglass....unbelieveable.