I think if you just sprayed the silver part 04:50 and keep the flag colors inside it will be more cool :)

You may know by now but Plastidip comes in Glossy black now which is more of a Satin finish right out of the can, its a gamechanger for these jobs. Also putting cans in warm water for 10 mins before using is essential for a smooth result.

Definitely came out nice but I think I would have left the colors in the emblems n just tried to do a chrome delete on the emblems. But again nice job man.

I always dig the clean badgeless look. Whenever I take off emblems or lettering I use a heat gun though. Softening up the adhesive really helps to have more of it come off on the initial removal.

They won't do it because technically you've now made your car illegal to drive on the road. All cars must have orange reflectors in the front and red in the rear. It does look good, but just not worth the hassle if you live in a state with inspections.

Join us next year on “Zero to Awesome”when I black out the Spirit of Ecstasy on my Rolls Royce Cullinan… lol

Such a good job, I think they should come like this from the factory. Excellent work!

Reflectors don’t work when you cover them with tint. They might be ugly but they serve a very important purpose and what you did is 100% illegal.

Nice job! Looks incredible! The wheels have got to go through!

It's fun seeing so many people trying to tell you what to do with a vehicle you own. Looks great.

I don't know if anyone's said this but you get less orange peel with either brand if you soak the can in hot water and warm the chemicals up. Do it even if it's been in a hot garage. This tip works well with and rattle can spray paint too. I'm glad I was just recommended this channel! Thank you KZfaq and subbed!

Looks awesome, love the blacked out look on the white.👍🏾

You are 100% correct on the complete black out on the emblem, as much as love my all black caddy. Sometimes it just blend in with the car.

I think I would want to use Steel it to black out emblems. I have used the tint to black out lights. It was easier for me to black out emblems where you have to stretch the tint. The clips will be priceless when Baby Awesome is a teenager! Great video!

Looks awesome brother. Love the idea of taking “Escalade” off the car. Did the same to my CTS.

LOVE this I thnk I will try this method of peelable paint once I have my car detailed. Thansk for showing how much more awesome it looks without the badging!

Good video!!!! As soon as my new car gets it, I'm goin do to the badges and tint the side markers. I wish they did offer the blacked out badges with the black out, grill options.

8:50 Pro-tip, use multiple layers of blue painters tape as close as you can around the emblems. Many of these emblems have VERY sharp corners and can gouge your paint. Secondly, you can use a blowdryer or heat gun (careful not to mess up paint) and they come off much easier.

Holy shit! It really makes a big difference. Looks so much better now

I did the same thing to my 2021 Tahoe High Country in cherry red. My wheels are powder coated gloss black, it looks fantastic!

Awesome video and very informative... I'm about to do this to my wife's 2017 escalade and my 07 Ext Escalade... and I live in Tx..

Fantastic easy to follow content. Very informing. Thanks from Seoul, Korea.

Amazing how much the little details make a difference

There is legit a monochrome badge option. It might be sport 2 or something. My sister just ordered one. It was some specific package. Badges come black and silver, no other colors. Couldn't imagine spray painting a $120k suv

Excellent job and video! Thanks brother.

You have a beautiful collection of vehicles!! 🥰

In their defense, the Cadillac emblem is silver, not black. If they sent it with the front emblem black, it wouldn't be their logo which is copyright protected.

Beautiful vehicle. FYI, Goof Off is fine on automotive paint. Using a strong adhesive remover is actually easier and faster because you're not working so hard to remove the adhesive, so you're leaving behind fewer scratches and micromarring. FWIW, I use a bit of heat (although a bright sunny day is usually sufficient) and a plastic putty knife, along with the adhesive remover.

Very nice look for sure!!! Your boy, totally awesome cute!

I am deff doing this to my cadillac, looks great

I will never understand why dealers feel entitled to vandalize your car with their name. Also I didn't think they'd do it on a $100k+ car

When I saw the first Escalade in the early 00's I thought to myself "This is the vulgar expression of a gangster" now It looks like a big fridge with wheels

Looks awesome!!

I remember when I bought my 15 Hyundai Genesis back in 17. I politely asked the dealer to take anything and everything that had their name on the car. I stated "you don't pay me to advertise. Strip it" 🤣

Perfect!!! Only thing I would of done differently is kept Escalade on the bottom left

Side reflectors are there so people can see that behemoth on the road. But if you don’t want to be visible at night, I guess.

FYI. Good off and most solvents will not affect base coat/clear coat. Clear coat is an epoxy type off paint. Instead of using a solvent to change the physical properties of the paint, it uses a harder to chemically change the coat.

that turned out really great

Looks awesome good job

Your garage is Gorgeous.

A much safer way to remove the rear lettering is to heat the adhesive using a hair dryer. No chance of removing paint that way

Looks AMAZING!

Great work man. The clips at the end 🤣 perfection

Great job and video. I was wondering if white would work for those front markers.

Literally awesome

Great job mate they look great 👍

Like your collection of vehicles.

Just to let know that you can order monochrome Cadillac emblems fro front and back, they are also part of onyx package.

I have a 2022 XT6 Sport White w the Onyx package. Did the emblems, etc as well. Full stormtrooper. Looks bad ass. So does your beast.

Very nicely done.

Great video I do the same thing I removed any badges of the dealership because when I look at it I’m driving around with their name giving them free advertisement now if they want to pay me I’ll keep them on there

You have 2 of my dream vehicles !!

Great video! I de-badge all of my cars including the wife’s. We recently bought her a new white 350 f-sport Lexus from Sewell, I debaged it AT the stealership (with dental floss) and gave it to the salesman… lol. Wrapped the window trim in gloss black.

Nice and clean 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Awesome, really cool…After your perfect design, it becomes like Transformers, so handsome.😎

He wasn’t kidding about “no mommy” 😂😂

Way easier to use a heat gun, you can buy one at Lowe's for 20 bucks, decals will pop off taking the glue off with them, I debaged my brother's 2022 Escalade and my 2021 750i and it took me 10 minutes to do both cars.

The black emblem with the yellow and red parts different shades of grey and black looks pretty cool seen it done before somewhere

Looks so goooddd 😮

Great video. Could you elaborate on the side marker removal? I unclipped the electrical but unsure how to separate the white clips from the actual orange side marker. Thanks!

I like Dad … he loooked out, that side few marker? What was Cadillac thinking? Beautiful car best looking one I’ve seen.

i did a black grill on my f250 and it hits real hard👌

Your garage is goals bro!

This was awesome! Thanks!

Blacked out emblems and reflectors make a nice difference! Yes Mommy, love it! When are you planning to post the Supercruise vid?

Looks SWEEEET... Love it

Nice work!!

That looks really nice.

So I just bought the black covers for the front and rear emblems, they have like an American flag design which I like. I didn't even think about the reflectors, definitely going to try that this weekend. As for the side emblems I just took those off, once you painted them, you couldn't really see them anymore. Looks great though. Mine is black unfortunately, dealership kept marking up the white ones.

i think "No Mommy" part will go viral 😂

Thanks for this.. great job

Be careful with letting the goo gone and goof off sit for too long, I’ve had the Goo Gone actually take paint off my car on accident. Luckily it was my shitbox EK Civic but I didn’t realize that there was Goo Gone that dropped down the trunk and bumper and it actually bubbled my paint a little bit then a week later paint started chipping off, so I had to take the bumper off and paint it with black and then clear coated it

Didn't think it was going to look good...but ended up looking nice...you should do a review of that rx7 on the lift

You also can use a heat gun or hair blower on low heat to remove the lettering

Woulda glanced at that on the street and thought it was a suburban after the changes. Kinda Defeats the purpose of paying extra for an escalade ... lol

I promise you the easiest way to get that adhesive off that is used on the letters, is to use rubbing alcohol.

I like this guy great job 👏 👍🏾. And remember!!! NO MOMMY 😅😅

Super Clean Bro!!

Bro, your rig looks 1000% better just with those small improvements. My vote is to go full storm trooper with the wheels.

reflective vinyl on reflectors is so cool, try it. black vinyl reflects white

Looks very nice 👍🏽👍🏽

I moved to Colorado and I just can’t believe how all dealers badge cars here. You pay $40,000 and up for a vehicle and some dealer puts their stupid dealer badging on the back of EVERY SINGLE VEHICLE…. and usually crooked.

Your mom and I go way back, like Cadillac seats 😁

You've got skills. Impressive

Nice touch!

Good deal, I’m blacking out my suv decals as well A good adhesive remover aka the best is in a red/silver can and believe it’s the 3m brand it’s like $40 a can but works 10x faster than goo gone Is it safer I’m not sure. But I used that stuff to remove graphics at my old job.

Looks a lot better cheers mate 👊

I got to do debadge my Jaguar XFR. Already have blacked out trimming. 🤔. So that peel off glosifier combo was it huh?

they do have a black emblem you can install on the grill have done multiple of them (gm part )

Looks great

Looking good 👍😎

9:43 I used a blow dryer and the letters on my Tahoe all came off almost clean, used 91% alcohol for the last little bit

Just take the rear reflectors and the side markers off and spray paint them white to match 🤣😂 that’s what I did with my civic. It was a 9th Gen civic si coupe so it had 2 giant reflectors like 6 inches under the tail lights, since I was going with a black and green color scheme like monster, I took those reflectors off and spray painted them like green, also I tinted the tail lights with the Vivvid Vinyl Hexagon holographic and the shit looked amazing. I was gonna tint my head lights but I decided against it and eventually took my headlights off and opened them to delete the orange plastic inside the headlight. Shit looked absolutely amazing. I love vinyl wrapping and doing cool custom things like that. If there was more of a business need for it, I would go after doing the custom little stuff, but there’s no way a business can survive on the custom SMALL things, so I always look for the little things to do all the time, I even go do it for my friends and they pay me to get the little things off, take them home and paint them or vinyl wrap them, then I go back when the parts are ready and install them back into the car. We all know doing the little pieces is annoying and a lot of people hate it, but I enjoy it. So if anyone wants, y’all can send me the little things or if you live in Florida, you can pay me and I’ll come do the little things for you lol. That goes for anyone 😂🤣

Looks awesome! Leave the wheels. I like them!

What size are the factory rims and tires, my wife has a xt4 Sport and I absolutely love it.

Cadillac offers a package called Oynx Package, which does more black trims and also removes the color off the emblem

Bad Ass ! It looks like a different Suv 🔥👍

Did the dealership say why cadence are not shipping with the black and white Cadillac emblems? When ordering the onyx package?

they have an option to make it chrome/black, atleast now they do, im looking to get one in the next month or two

Do you do anything for prep on the badges other than a wash and let dry?