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Old 01-21-2009 | 10:21 PM
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Cleaning Exhaust Tips

My car had some nasty baked on black stuff on the exhaust tips. I tried wax, scratch remover, and aluminum/chrome polish (which worked a little). But nothing would remove it very well...

I am one of the guys who notices the little things and I think clean exhaust tips and insides of wheels really make a car look new. So I kept thinking about how to clean the tips...

I thought about steel wool or similar, but did not want to scratch them up too bad. Then I thought about some cleaner and plastic scrubbers I have for our ceramic stove cooktop. It is made to not scratch, but to also get the baked on black stuff off. I thought it may be worth a try.

That method worked extremely well! Took off almost all the black crusty stuff off and left the tips shiny and not scratched looking. I need to get it out into the sunlight and hit it again to really get all the stuff off that is hiding in the cracks.

Anyway, just thought I would pass that along. Anyone else have any good exhaust tip cleaning tips (pun intended!)?
 
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Old 01-21-2009 | 10:27 PM
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search on detailing section, I'm sure you will have answer quickly.
 
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Old 01-21-2009 | 10:37 PM
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It appears on some detailing forums that the NXT polish works well for tips as well...
 
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Old 01-21-2009 | 10:44 PM
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Thanks guys! This forum is huge! I need to spend some time and look outside of the current one and find some good tidbits!

And yes I am up at 12:30am ET cleaning my exhaust tips...
 
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Steel wool does the trick.
 
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Old 01-22-2009 | 02:21 AM
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i needed that too
 
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Old 01-22-2009 | 09:39 AM
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+1 I used his advice--the P21S and steel wool inside worked wonders. Then some metal polish to bring back the shine--plus, now when I was the car, the black comes right off thanks to the clean/polished metal underneath
 
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Old 01-22-2009 | 10:36 AM
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NevrDull, NevrDull, NevrDull.
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works perfectly.

I have used this stuff for years, mainly on stainless on boats. amazing stuff, truly amazing.
 
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Old 01-22-2009 | 02:01 PM
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Where do you buy NeverDull? Never heard of it until today.
 
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Old 01-22-2009 | 03:52 PM
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Neverdull works, Borla actually released a Stainless Steel Exhaust cleaner at PRI, haven't tried it yet but have heard it works very good on stainless steel exhausts.
 
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Where do you buy NeverDull? Never heard of it until today.
I think NeverDull is an Eagle One product...correct me if im wrong...
 
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Old 01-22-2009 | 06:58 PM
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Try "Bar Keepers Friend". It is a wonderful stainless steel cleaner that is non abraisive and has a little polish in it. It can be found at most grocery stores or target. Cost about $1.50. It will not scratch the surface and works amazing. Restaurants use it to take off baked on items without hurting the stainless steel or glass.
 
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Never dull was bought by Eagle one, although they started as a small stand alone company. These days you can find it in Wal Mart and pretty much all the auto part stores
 
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Metal polish for aluminum and mag Rims works really well!!
 


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