Remove it, have it wrapped or painted, and then get the BRONCO letting in vinyl. That alone should save quite a bit since tracing it by hand will never be perfect and will eat up time in labor costs.
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What I would do in that instance is get a vinyl decal the exact right shape and size. Paint the yellow (or whatever color the letters would need to be) first. Cover the letters with the vinyl, paint the insert color, remove the decals (basically a stencil at this point), clear everything, sand, clear again. No tape lines, and it is painted on and not a sticker that may peel/fade with time.Remove it, have it wrapped or painted, and then get the BRONCO letting in vinyl. That alone should save quite a bit since tracing it by hand will never be perfect and will eat up time in labor costs.
My wife has a cricut and I have a 3d printer. I'll be printing custom 3d badges and she will be making custom vinyl graphics to go on them. I've painted emblems before and although slightly time consuming, you can do it cheap and with decent adhesion. My toyota 4 runner graphics are now a matte rubberized black, for over a year, with no Knicks. Job costs about $20 for the primer and paint. Used ultra fine steel wool and rubbing alcohol to clean the emblem. Put a piece of plastic wrap over the grill, used an exactly knife to cut the plastic out over the emblem. Then blue painters tape around all the letters (this took an hour). 3 layers of primer, waited 4 hours, then 3 layers of 3m rubberized matte black coating. I did this on a Friday after work. Removed the plastic and tape Saturday morning, didn't touch it till work Monday morning.Hmmm...so how hard to you think it will be to remove this center piece? Do you think you have to remove the surrounding parts, and basically remove the entire dash assembly?
One thing that irks me about the Badlands is the inverted dash color. I was thinking about matching with A51 and then having BRONCO text in yellow to tie in random yellow stitching. I suppose i could try to get custom vinyl and wrap myself, but to get yellow text may mean a custom paint job. Any idea what you think that will cost? Im sure it's mostly labor, but the question is how much labor to pop out that piece. Or could an intaller do all of this in vinyl without removing the piece. I could see this being as little as a few hundred to vinyl in place, versus over 1k if they have to disassemble the whole dash and paint.