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Old Feb 20, 2009 | 11:11 PM
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Restoring Polished Exhaust Tips

What would any of you recommend for cleaning very dirty & stained exhaust tips?

My car does not have catalytic converters. I didn't bother cleaning the tips for months and now it almost seems impossible to get them cleaned. I have tried scrubbing down the inner walls of the tips with no avail

This is how they're SUPPOSED to look:

 
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Old Feb 20, 2009 | 11:15 PM
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https://g35driver.com/forums/care-de...cs-inside.html

I've used this on my exhaust tips as well. Seems to help, although the difference was not as drastic.
 
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Old Feb 20, 2009 | 11:30 PM
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Wash it let the soap soak a lil, then maybe a gunk/wd40, then some metal polish, if not some very high frit sand paper!!!
 
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Old Feb 21, 2009 | 12:04 AM
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try a lil #0000 steel wool and metal polish. should do the trick unless they are really dirty,
 
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Old Feb 21, 2009 | 08:58 AM
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Mothers billet works very well.
 
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Old Feb 21, 2009 | 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by WhosRich
try a lil #0000 steel wool and metal polish. should do the trick unless they are really dirty,
+1 as i have used this method and it works quite well.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2009 | 11:30 PM
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So I decided to give BlueMagic a try, and it worked like a charm!

Keep in mind that my exhaust doesn't have any catalytic converters and the exhaust was stained from months of not being cleaned.

This is what 5 minutes of soap/water + brush scrubing accomplished:


This is what 2 minutes of a quick cleaning did with the BlueMagic polish with nothing more than a rag:


I didn't finish it up since I was just trying out the product and it was already dark though
 
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Old Mar 28, 2009 | 07:47 PM
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Start with 000 steel wool, clean it with soap and water, then wet sand with 3000 grit sand paper. Then polish with an aluminum polish or braso.
 
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