My red bike got a fresh 2K clear coat, which looks quite nice. The blue bike's bodywork is not quite as good, but it's OK and will look fine with clear. Unfortunately, the tail section has a crooked emblem that's giving me grief. It's stock paint. Somebody goofed in Suzuki-land. I've written a letter to them (kidding).

It was also cracked from the sun and looked bad. In prep for the 2K, I sanded it back. But it's still hanging around and I'm not sure I should go any further. See the pic and pardon the paper towel fluff. When I spray water on it the paint looks great, and my experience is that 2K clear will do the same.

Choices that occur to me.

1) Keep sanding it back. I'm worried I'll break into the paint
2) Lay the new decal over the old, all crooked-like. That sort of stinks, maybe it shouldn't bug me.
3) Lay the new decal over but straight. I think it may look janky It's also off-center vertically. It seems to me anyway.
4) Try dissolving it with Goof Off
5) Consult a psychiatrist.

The decal is abutting the straight part of the cowling pretty much where it should be alignment-wise.