Product Details

Materials

We offer a wide range of materials to develop custom badges for cars:

Metal Design Options

Plastic Design Options

Manufacturing Processes

As a car badge maker we offer a wide range of manufacturing processes, including:

Metal Processes

Plastic Processes

  • Plastic Injection Molding - Molded Plastic Nameplates
  • In-Mold Decoration (IMD)

Processes such as stamping, embossing, die casting, forging & injection molding allow you to create 3D logo badges with precision.

Surface Treatment

Common surface processes we offer inlcude:

  • Chrome Plating
  • Black Chrome Plating
  • Nickel Plating
  • Spray Painting
  • Enameling
  • Powder Coating
  • Chemical Etching + Automotive Grade Paint
  • Anodizing
  • Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)
  • Diamond Cutting
  • Screen Printing
  • Sandblasting
  • Doming (Domed Badges)
  • Laser Engraving
  • Hot Stamping
  • Pad Printing
  • Brushed Finish (Hairline)
  • Polishing
  • More!

Attachment Options

Car nameplate attachment options include:

  • Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
  • Tabs
  • Mounting Holes
  • Mechanical Fasteners
  • Molded-In Studs

Protective Coatings

Custom car badge protective coatings:

  • Polyurethane Resin Coating
  • Varnish Coating
  • UV Coating

Minimum Order Quantity

Minimum Order Quantity: 100

Quantity Discounts: 250, 500, 1000, 2500, 5000+

Lead Time & Shipping

Sample Lead Time: 18-21 days from the time we receive artwork approval. 

Production Lead Time: 21-28 days from time we receive sample approval. If no sample is required the total lead time is 21 days.

Shipping: We ship all orders in the United States 🇺🇸 free using UPS Ground.

We may be able to rush your order if necessary.

Injection molded badges have longer lead times on the initial order for tooling development.

All Reward, No Risk Guarantee

  • Peace Of Mind Guarantee

    Not completely satisfied with your custom car badges? We'll remake them free!

  • Free Shipping & Courier Of Choice

    Free shipping with your courier of choice on all orders in the United States 🇺🇸

  • Price Certainty Guarantee

    Never pay more than the quoted amount. No hidden fees ever policy.

  • Payment Options

    Explore a wide range of payment options, including the option to only pay 50% upfront with the remaining paid at delivery.

  • Deadline Assurance

    We promise to meet your deadlines or get 50% off your entire order.

How To Buy

Request a quick quote by clicking here

Email us: info@trailblazerbadges.com

Text us: 714-397-1579

Car club plaque produced using stainless steel, chemical etching with the recessed areas filled with red, white and blue automotive grade paint.

Custom auto badges that make eyes pop and rivals fade into the darkness.

Developed using the most advanced badge manufacturing processes, our car emblems are the ultimate automotive branding. With extremely durable materials, eye-popping 3D fabrication, mind-bending textures, and vibrant colors, our branding is built to deliver. Turn heads, enhance brand awareness and drive sales by creating the metal car badges of your dreams with unmatched versatility.

The brand that brands the world's most renowned companies.

Goodyear Logo
Continental Logo
In Motion Logo
US Navy Logo
Ford Logo

Engineered for limitless creativity.

With a range of materials, patterns, textures, colors, styles and fully customizable logo design, seamlessly develop one-of-kind automotive branding, outshining the competition.

  • Dynamic Aluminum Solutions

    Aluminum is the ultimate badge material—resisting rust, chemicals, and extreme temperatures—while weighing just one-third of steel. 100% recyclable with boundless customization options including embossing, painting, printing, carving, polishing, brushing, anodizing and more.

  • Die cast zinc alloy with antique finish

    Zinc-Driven Durability

    Razor-sharp detail and extreme durability, standing up to UV, salt spray, and road-grime with unwavering toughness. Sleek, high-end appearance with finishing options including plating, painting, antiquing, hairline and more.

  • Injection Molded Plastics

    The go-to fabrication method for OEM automotive badges—its unmatched scalability and rapid cycle times make it the obvious choice for high-volume OEM and aftermarket runs. Lightweight, strong and finishing options including chrome plating, painting, printing and unique texturing.

Why Trailblazer is the place to buy your automotive identity.

  • 3D Modeling

    Avoid costly mistakes by bridging the gap between product ideation and badge production.

  • 3D Scanning

    Remove the guesswork and simplify the process from design to fabrication.

  • Design Assistance

    Transform your wildest visions into stunning, one-of-a-kind badging to stir hearts.

  • Prototyping

    Rapid, iterative prototyping builds confidence, allowing you to examine design & fit before costly tooling.

  • Custom Packaging

    Prevent damaged branding with customized packaging solutions tailored to your badges' unique characteristics and dimensions.

Some of our past projects...

  • Iconic Rolls Royce badges produced using aluminum forging and hand painting.

    Rolls Rolls

    Brand identity for one of the world's most iconic automotive brands.

  • Car dealership badges fabricated from aluminum with printing and embossing.

    APlus Customs

    New brand identity using car badges for one of America's leading car dealerships.

  • Embossed emblems produced for an engine manufacturer being used in trucks and buses.

    International

    Industrial design for an renown manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks, buses and engines.

  • Tracklander

    Product branding emphasizing simplicity and durability for a world class 4WD roof-rack manufacturer.

  • Mirror aluminum car badge with printed surface and embossed FORD and border

    Ford

    Built Ford Tough, OEM badges for the pioneer of the automotive industry.

  • mercury diesel nameplate produced with using aluminum + black printing, stamping and rolled edges

    Mercury Diesel

    Branding to help power your journey with relentless torque and refined engineering.

Custom automotive badge made using metal, screen printing and polishing.

OEM & custom car emblem maker empowering you with the freedom to design and the power to distinguish.

Designed by you, recognized by everyone. Each custom car logo badge fuses technical precision with artistry, elevating your automotive signature with a personal touch. Choose from large array of materials, colors, textures, patterns, embossing levels and more. Catalyze growth, maximize ROI and unlock new opportunities by unleashing your design team's creative inner animal.

Create Your Own Badges

There’s never been a better time to upgrade your automotive signage.

DuraDome™ - sky high performance with domed car badges.

DuraDome™, our high-performance polyurethane resin is designed to protect your surface design in every environment imaginable. Transverse from the sandiest dunes to the snowiest mountain peaks anxiety free, knowing your branding is protected every mile of the way.

Bend corners with ease using cutting-edge Flexibadge™ technology.

Seamlessly design flexible badges that adhere to curved, uneven, or irregular surfaces with ease. Bring your automotive logos to life using automotive grade plastics—designed to capture attention with unique textures, patterns, colors and more. Ask about DuraChrome™ our trademarked flexible chrome finished nameplates.

Shine bright like a diamond.

Need a reflective, high-gloss finish that adds depth, brilliance, and a premium edge to your branding? Choose our cutting-edge electroplating technology, used to give your chrome custom car badges their captivating silver metal texture, smooth and reflective surface, highlighting premier automotive branding. Trivalent chrome and physical vapor deposition give us control over every detail—delivering matte, satin, and gloss finishes.

NSS machinery to test the anti-corrosiveness of car badges and nameplates.

Engineered 3D Emblems. Unshakable Durability.

OEM and aftermarket auto emblems designed, engineered and tested for the toughest environments, meeting or exceeding strict OEM standards set by the world’s most iconic automotive manufacturers. Utilizing state of the art technology, we are able to simulate real world environments with fast feedback loops, facilitating a process of continuous improvement by identifying areas for optimization, adapting and enhancing performance during the product development stage.

3M emblem tape (VHB), commonly used for vehicle badges.

Developed to hold, designed to endure, automotive die cut tape.

Every detail, secured. Choose from a range of precisely engineered attachment options—pressure-sensitive adhesives, mounting holes, tabs, fasteners, in-mold and more—each tailored to fit your needs and built to last. Because the way your vehicle badging holds is just as important as how it looks.

Designed with the planet in mind.

Innovation drives everything we do—including our commitment to a more sustainable future. From sourcing responsibly to using safer, smarter materials, every choice is made to protect the people who build our products, the ones who rely on them, and the environment they eventually return to.

Reimagining the boundaries of badge design.

Creative design is in our DNA. Where design and engineering move as one—from insight to execution. We start by understanding your vision through briefing, deep research, trend analysis, and real-world observation. Allowing us to transforms these insights into manufacturable, brand-aligned metal car logo solutions that are as intuitive as they are impactful. The result: bold, purposeful design that’s built to perform and ready to scale.

Where your logo leaves its mark.

  • Exterior

    Make your mark on the grille, tailgate, and fenders—where badges become the face of the vehicle and instantly separate your brand from the rest.

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    Interior

    Place them on the steering wheel, dash, seats and console—where your logo stays in sight, forging subconscious loyalty every time your consumers drive.

  • Decorative Trim

    Molds, buttons, gauges, plates—decorative trim that subtly carries your values, made for OEMs and aftermarket brands who know every detail speaks volumes.

  • Safety & Warning Labels, Badges & Nameplates for Cars

    Safety

    Decals, tags, and labels—when safety badges fail, it’s more than risk; it’s liability, lost trust, and future revenue slipping away.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are important factors to take into consideration for auto badge attachments?

Important factors to take into consideration include:

  • Environment & Application
  • Surface Material & Surface Energy
  • Weight
  • Surface Texture

Below are some common adhesives we utilize:

  • 3M VHB
  • 3M 467MP
  • 3M 468MP
  • 3M 200MP
  • Avery, FlexCon & General Formulations

Do you have stock dies to reduce tooling costs?

Yes, we have a large array of stock dies that help reduce the price for you. If we don't have the exact size you are looking for, we can provide you with the closest sizes we have. Reach out to us to see how we may be able to help.

Do all your products meet automotive OEM durability standards?

Our badges are fabricated to meet your specific needs. If OEM standards are required, we can manufacture to those exact specifications and provide testing reports such as NSS, adhesion testing, and more.

Can your company reproduce any design? Intellectual Property?

When designing, developing, and manufacturing custom badges, we are required to ensure that the artwork/designs used are legally owned or licensed. This is because copyright and trademark laws protect intellectual property (IP), which includes logos, symbols, images, and any other original creations. Unauthorized reproduction of these protected designs can lead to serious legal consequences, including fines, lawsuits, and the potential for significant reputational damage to both us as the manufacturer and you the customer.

Copyright law protects the original expression of ideas, while trademarks protect symbols, names, and slogans used to identify goods or services. If you request the reproduction of a design that you do not own or have the proper licensing for, it could result in a violation of these laws.

For further reference, you can consult sources like the U.S. Copyright Office, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and legal firms specializing in IP law, which offer comprehensive insights into the complexities of copyright and trademark regulations.

What is the difference between trademark and copyright?

Trademark
A form of intellectual property (IP) protection that applies to symbols, words, phrases, logos, or other distinctive marks used by a business to identify and distinguish its products or services from those of others. The primary purpose of a trademark is to prevent consumer confusion by ensuring that a particular mark or logo exclusively represents a specific brand or product. Trademarks are protected under the Lanham Act in the United States, which allows the owner of a trademark to prevent others from using a similar mark that could cause confusion among consumers. Unlike copyright, trademark protection can last indefinitely as long as the trademark is in continuous use and the owner renews the registration periodically. Trademarks can be checked through the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to protect against copyright infringement.

Copyright
A form of protection granted to original works of authorship, such as literary, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. Copyright protection automatically applies once an original work is created and fixed in a tangible medium, meaning that the work must be written, recorded, or otherwise documented in some permanent form. Unlike trademarks, copyrights do not protect ideas, procedures, or methods, but rather the specific expression of those ideas. The duration of copyright protection varies depending on the type of work and the date of creation, generally lasting for the life of the author plus 70 years for individual works, or 95 to 120 years for works made for hire or anonymous works. To ensure you are not infringing on the copyrights of others you can check this website here.

Here are some examples of items we cannot include on your custom badges due to copyright:

  • Ford Logo
  • Toyota
  • Dodge
  • Nike Logo
  • Apple Logo
  • Mercedes
  • Lexus
  • Adidas Logo
  • Chevy