Boston, not nearly as hot up here. I did recently take the car in for service, but I hand wash it myself. I did just recently hand wash it. It looks like the clear coat on the emblem just lost it's adhesion and started flaking off, taking some paint with it. ....havent read past your post in the thread yet, maybe more details came out
Cool. it's nothing to get bent about. The poor guys that send their cars to dealerships for hood damage because of this stupid requirement to get hood emblems are large in numbers.
