My CMS is 8 months old and I understand that my exhaust tips are going to be covered with soot. What do you guys use to clean/ polish them? I just picked up some Mothers chrome polish and it did an OK job, but I can't seem to get them clean enough...

 

Neverdull.

 

if you wipe them off regularly (monthly or so), a rag with some WD-40 will take the soot right off!!

 

Why didn't think of that! Going to try tonight.

 

Eagle One Never dull wadding polish.

 

Griot's Garage Metal Polish.

 

+1 on Nevr-Dull wadding polish. . .it's *amazing* stuff

 

PlastiDip. It's black and the soot just adds character.

 

EverBrite Wadding Polish

 

try oven cleaner, let it stay on overnight and wash off in the morning

 

I used liquid wrench...it is pretty much WD-40 and it works great and I always have some around. If they are really bad I use that with some 1000 grit sand paper then move up to 3000 grit and a cutting compound. But that is just me using stuff I have in the garage already to keep them pretty.

 

Not sure if serious...

Plastidip on such a high temperature part? Or is it really late and I missed the last train headed for sarcasm...?

 

Master Formula Metal Gloss is the flat out best metal polishing compound on earth! Seriously I've been using it for well over ten years, it's expensive though! I have polished my 100 percent 7075-T6 Supermax with this stuff, it works quickly and can make any aluminum a mirror!

 

Yeah, completely serious. If I wasn't serious I would have had a clarifying statement or some obnoxious smilies

But seriously, they are dipped to. I did them just as the sun was setting, the night before I left for the Dragon this year.

Plasti Dip® is heat resistant up to 312 degrees F.

 

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That thing is way too clean for a toy. Looks good though

 

mothers allum polish.

 

I used to use SOS or Brillo pads on the chrome and stainless on my Kenworth. Worked really well at getting the soot off the stack tips and the bugs off of the bumper and air cleaners. Water beads up nice afterward too

 

Barkeepers Friend. Pick it up at the supermarket for three or four bucks. Safe to use on glass top stoves and stainless steel cookwear too.

 

Good call
I use that or Bon-Ami on my stainless cookware and kitchen sink.

 

Me too. Is it too abrasive though, i.e. will it dull the chrome?

 

No it won't. It says it will also clean rust and brake dust. It isn't made to scour but clean and polish whatever difference that means. but it sure puts a sparkle on the chrome.

 

Cool - thanks! Funny thing, I was recently looking for something to clean rust off a chrome shower curtain rod. I didn't even think about using The Friend there either. Love that stuff!

 

My soot doesn't stick to the chrome. I just wipe it off the exhaust tips with the washing mit I use to clean the wheels. I don't have to scrub or anything.

Dave

 

It is amazing how often a SNL quote seems to be just perfect. Right now, Church Lady comes to mind.

 

Based on this thread I grabbed a tin of NeverDull Wadding polish and I gotta say...

DEM TIPS

Barely any elbow grease (less than cleaning one wheel) and they are literally cleaner than the ones on the showroom floor at Mini :P