Acura A Mark Rear Emblem for RSX/TSX 75701-SEC-A00

Genuine Acura Rear "A" Emblem (75701-SEC-A00) - 2002-2006 RSX & 2004-2008 TSX

You've probably walked past it a hundred times before it registered. The badge on the back of your car has gone dull, or the chrome is pitting, or one corner has started lifting away from the paint, or it simply disappeared. Maybe a previous owner peeled it off entirely and left a ghost outline behind. Whatever got you here, this is the genuine Acura replacement, and it's one of the cheapest ways to make a twenty-year-old car look cared for again.

When It's Time To Replace One

These badges live a hard life. Two decades of UV, automatic car washes, road salt, and heat cycling take their toll, and chrome plating on plastic eventually gives up. You'll usually notice it in one of a few ways.

The chrome goes hazy or cloudy and stops reflecting properly. Small pits or bubbles appear in the plating. An edge starts lifting where the adhesive has let go, which then collects dirt underneath and gets worse. Or it's simply gone, either lost on the highway or removed by someone who wanted a debadged look and later changed their mind.

None of those get better with polishing. Once the plating is compromised, the only real fix is a new badge.

Refreshing The Details Is What Makes A Car Look Sharp

Here's the thing about older cars. You can have good paint, clean wheels, and a tidy interior, and a faded, peeling emblem will still be the thing that makes the car read as tired. Badges sit right at eye level on the back of the car, which is where people spend the most time looking at it in traffic.

Replacing one is a fifteen-minute job that costs very little and changes the impression the whole rear end gives. If you're going through your car sorting out the small stuff, this belongs on the list alongside fresh wiper blades and clean headlights.

Get The Genuine One

There are cheap reproduction emblems all over the internet, and they're the kind of thing that photographs fine and looks wrong on the car. The chrome quality is different, the proportions are often slightly off, and the plating starts hazing within a season or two, which means you'll be doing this again.

This is the actual Acura part, number 75701-SEC-A00, with factory chrome and factory dimensions. It sits exactly where the original did and it looks the way it's supposed to, which is the entire point of replacing a badge.

Alignment Pins And Pre-Applied Tape

Good news on installation. The double-sided tape comes pre-applied, so there's nothing to source and nothing to cut. And the emblem uses two alignment pins that do the hard part for you, dropping into the existing holes and locating it correctly. You're not measuring from the edges or eyeballing whether it's level.

A little prep makes the difference between a clean result and a mediocre one. Get the old emblem and all its leftover adhesive off, then clean the area thoroughly with isopropyl alcohol so the new tape bonds to bare paint rather than old residue. Work on a warm day if you can, since adhesive grips far better above about 60 degrees. Peel the backing, line up the pins, press firmly, and leave it alone for a day before washing the car.

Fitment

• 2002-2006 Acura RSX
• 2004-2008 Acura TSX

Mounts to the rear hatch on the RSX and the trunk on the TSX.

Who Should Grab One

This is for the owner who's keeping their RSX or TSX looking right. Maybe you're going through the car fixing all the small things at once, maybe the badge finally bothered you enough to do something about it, maybe you're prepping it to sell and want the details sharp. It's a small part with an outsized effect on how the car presents. Peel the old one off, prep the surface properly, and put the factory badge back.

Fits: 2002-2006 Acura RSX and 2004-2008 Acura TSX, rear hatch or trunk. Part number: 75701-SEC-A00. Type: genuine Acura emblem. Finish: chrome. Mounting: two alignment pins with pre-applied double-sided tape. Sold: individually.