I have mangled many W126 trunk lid badges while trying to gently remove them from cars at junkyards. I finally gave up on it and I delegated the work to my competent assistant. She worked a serrated bread knife gently underneath the chromed plastic, and gently carved and leveraged the badge from the trunk lid. Success!

Soon my 560 SEC will not longer have a badge with the “C” broken off so that it reads “560 SE.” Better …