Same here, fortunately I had the right size driver so just a couple extra minutes spent removing and replacing the screws.  

 Yes, please post pictures so we can understand what you're talking about

Not Good........

I mean, I feel like I could remove that just fine and not have any plastic stick out on the edges but thats just me.  How about showing us a picture of it removed?  Or you literally going to try and unscrew that first?

Just take a lighter to it and melt it off. 

themrnashville
Just take a lighter to it and melt it off. 

IF it singes the cooler a little, they may make you pay to replace the cooler. 
 
Allen keys are very cheap, and I would think just a little would allow the plastic to stretch around the top of the screw.  That is a strange choice to install it though.

The plastic badge pieces come to EVGA's assembly plant from the vendor with the transparent scuff-resistant coating already applied.
 
How do you propose that EVGA solve this issue?  Do you propose that EVGA pay a worker to peel up the corners of the plastic, install the screw, and try to push the plastic back down over the top of the screw?  That is a lot of fiddly labor if you add it all up.  Additionally, that fiddly labor won't even look professional since the plastic scuff-resistant coating will stretch, bubble, rip, or ball up in the corners once completed.  Will you not then complain about the quality of the scuff-resistant application?  Is it not easier to ship the product with a professional-looking appearance and expect the small percentage of OCD-types to do the work themselves if they are so bothered by it?

What the hell.....someone *mormon word coverage* at the factory for the robot settings

df2rools
Yep, the plastic is under the screws, I don't recall the ACX2+ having that problem.
 
And after I took TWENTY FIVE minutes of getting only most of the plastic off (because all of it is impossible without taking out the screws)
 
The card doesnt work as it should. It's going back, never getting EVGA.

Oh I'd LOVE to see that RMA request....

Yeah, I ran into the same issue on my 1080 SC. I didn't use an Allen wrench and I just pulled out as much as I could on all the screws but I will have to go through later tonight and get the rest of the plastic off. It was a pretty big pain in the butt so hopefully they fix it in the future

SAMOEDADDY
 however not likely to pay emotional damage that was incurred in this. 
 

As a fellower OCDer, i'm gonna tell Vegeta to take an extra dose of medication and get over it. 

VegetaCreeper

You See, the screw is OVER the plastic.  Once you pull it off, there is still plastic around the screw.  In order to get all the plastic off, I have to remove the screws, take off the remainder of the plastic and reinstall the screws!!

YOU ARE KILLING MY OCD EVGA

WOW, really? It is NOT that big of a deal.
 
 

df2rools

ty_ger07

df2rools
Yep, the plastic is under the screws, I don't recall the ACX2+ having that problem.

 
It didn't have screws.  Therefore, ...
 

And after I took TWENTY FIVE minutes of getting only most of the plastic off (because all of it is impossible without taking out the screws)
 
The card doesnt work as it should. It's going back, never getting EVGA.

Boo hoo hoo.  I have lost interest in trying to help you.  Take our recommendations in your whine thread to heart.

You cant fix something that is that fundamentally broken. The recommendation for contacting support didn't help either. Never EVGA.

 
Dude....get a freaking $1 allen wrench at Walmart, spend 30 minutes unscrewing them out and back in.  Done  

This is how my 1080 SC is too, it pissed me off trying to get it off. I gave up after about an hour lol

What may not be a big deal to one, might be a big deal too another. That shouldnt be an excuse for a big QA issue. 
 
I just hope there is a phone video of the QA that will be losing there job soon!!