The front is a stick-on and it works great. The rear is supposed to be a stick-on metal overlay that replaces the existing blue and chrome overlay, but that is not what Tim sent me. He sent what I think is the F150 bezel insert which also happens to be 7in. I went ahead and used it by mounting it with 3M industrial strength double sided tape trimmed to fit. This meant that I had to completly remove the original blue and chrome badge and mounting base from the Explo. The blue and chrome rear badge was difficult to remove because Ford uses a really great adhesive. I took my time and removed it with a knotted nylon fishing line and goo gone.
Emblems arrived from Tim on Friday. Decided to put them on today. Some comments with the pics below.
No problem with removing the front emblem other than to note that I did break out two small portions of the grill holes when I removed the original emblem (small white crescents above the holes):
Front emblem as expected :
Tim did not send the overlay for the rear. He sent a complete emblem with base, but without the ribbed inner surface. It's probably the emblem that fits in the bezel for the F150 camera, but I don't know this for sure. You can see the part he sent in the pic below :
I went ahead with the install anyway, using 3M adhesive tape trimmed to fit. I removed the old emblem with knotted fishing line and goo gone. Killer adhesive was used by Ford and I only cleared it from the very edge. This allowed it to bond with the 3M tape on the inner side of the emblem. The result is perfect :
Here's the front, just as expected :
Waiting on the Remin interior real carbon fiber kits to arrive and thinking about having a discussion with my wife about going ahead with the Livernois 93 tune.
Just a heads-up, I don't think Tim at Etsy is shipping the rear emblem stick-on replacement. It seems that the only one he has as a selection in the Etsy listing is the complete rear emblem already attached to a base without adhesive. If this is so, you'll have to improvise like I did for attaching the rear emblem. As I noted in my original post, I used 3M double sided tape. This is not the emblem that you peel off the blue one from the existing base and double stick the new one.
Hey Pup, mine front did the same thing. I removed the original adhesive and replaced with 3m industrial and dots of super glue same as you did.
hi Britta, not sure regarding the 2016, but the badges from Tim on etsy did fit my 2015 Sport. Not sure regarding the Sport and Ecoboost badges, sometimes badges have 'location' pins that fit into holes in the body. Maybe someone else has removed theirs and can comment.
