Has anyone stained their exhaust tips?
 

I recently did a full detail on my car and noticed that the soot isn't coming off my tips anymore. Usually I would just grab a old T shirt and shine up the exhaust tips. I can see the back lower portion silver but everything else is a very dark chrome look. Either someone spray painted my tips while I wasn't looking or my stainless steel tips have become hopeless.

I also tried scrapping them to see if they would flake or not also.

steel wool /thread

I gave up on trying to clean my tips. That shit is blacker than Wesley Snipes.

When did you guys notice your tips become stained?

Would steel wool just leave it scratched and shitty looking?

eddie murphy

Metal polish and a rag, repeat. The polish has a blue lid, you can shine the bottom of a soda can to a mirror finish with that shit.

My girl got her monthly gift today....I now have a stained tip :biggthumpup:

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/up...t-bad-face.jpg

i think its called blue magic , works great or try eagle one nano polish for wheels works well too.

Turbo spit. Cause racecar

I use diluted purple power. Works great.

Freekn tappin

use BRASSO and use your man muscles to polish it...costs about $3 at walmart.

Gave my exhaust tips a mirror shine after 30K miles of never cleaning them.

Never Dull works for me. Keeps it clean for the first 5 minutes the next drive, then it is black again.

there are different grades of steel wool man. 000 or 0000 won't leave marks.

i just leave 'em all sooty and tell people it's black powdercoat.

That's why I don't even bother any more.

turbo delete should also work

100% e85 = exhaust you can eat out of. LOL.

Never dull wadding polish or a good, strong all purpose cleaner (even Eagle one a2z wheel cleaner) should do the job, as Raider and atvfreek mentioned.

Voltron cracked me up on this one.

my white bumper is stained and needs to be repainted. fml

I drive 60 miles a day and mine still look new. As said in here, just use some Eagle 1 Never Dull and you are golden.

I use Ajax (powder) and warm soapy water along with steel wool 0000

here is a pic of the tips cleaned on my grand prix. hope this helps

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...Mzc2LmpwZw.jpg

Who told you that man? The paint shop. Don't listen to that garbage.

I apologize if I'm coming off douchey, if that is a word, but exhaust soot can be removed with either clay or compound.

Mother's clay is an excellent otc clay, and Meguiars Ultimate compound on a microfiber rag will get rid of the stain.

i dont even bother washing my tips anymore

Just use some metal polish and some of those man muscles...

Apologies, but this thread reminds me of this:

Once they go black, they don't come back

@voltron

keeping them bitches clean is a part time job. Wear that shit like a badge of honor like a dent on a pickup truck. In B4 the Canadian soot fanatic has a duct tape can of foam remedy.

My Wesley Snipes exhaust tips scares Hondas. And Scions.

Any metal polish +elbow grease should get the job done. I usually just wipe it down every couple days, it stays unstained

A 2 second cleaning during the weekly car wash= no stainage

I stained mine with black sut from running rich