gold emblems, removing the gold

[dkertis10]

when i got my solara a year ago, it had the gold package but the gold was fading and it looked bad so i debadged it. yesterday i was cleaning my headlights to make them not look like crap and i read meguiars plastic x worked great. i had some meguiars scratch remover so i tried that and it worked decently. well i was playing around and put some on the one emblem i left on, the toyota logo on the grill. using some elbow grease and the remover, the gold started to come off and the chrome was showing a little.

does anyone know anything better or tips to get the gold off of emblems?

[Sasebo]

Well you could always sand it down and repaint it. Im planing on doing that sometime myself with the grill and emblem in black.

[NightRider]

Maybe a small brush and some paint thinner? But be very careful when you apply the paint thinner? And/Or cover the area your working on with some blue painters tape so you won't chance getting an paint thinner anywhere else besides the Toyota emblem.