polishing exhaust tips?

DSG2003Mach1 · Sep 8, 2018

Ive got some polished stainless exhaust tips that have been on the car a looong time. There's all kinds of...I dont even know... stuck to em from DD duty. Theres also a spot on the top of each tip where they were too close to the bumper cover and got marred a little bit over time.

I tried some never dull polish wad and it took some stuff off but still leaves a bit desired. I'm going to guess I'll need to do a multi-step polish just not quite sure where to start.

HudsonFalcon · Sep 8, 2018

Probably try wet sanding again with some high grit sandpaper and decrease the grit as needed. Then polish them out.

It sucks you spend all that time polishing only to literally bake road grime onto them lol.

DSG2003Mach1 · Sep 8, 2018

HudsonFalcon said:
Probably try wet sanding again with some high grit sandpaper and decrease the grit as needed. Then polish them out.

It sucks you spend all that time polishing only to literally bake road grime onto them lol.

ya just not sure what grit to start/finish with etc...theyre not terribly just need something more aggressive to get the junk off. Im not terribly concerned, this is probably 60-70k miles worth of a junk and shes a garage queen now

HudsonFalcon · Sep 8, 2018

DSG2003Mach1 said:
ya just not sure what grit to start/finish with etc...theyre not terribly just need something more aggressive to get the junk off. Im not terribly concerned, this is probably 60-70k miles worth of a junk and shes a garage queen now

I would start with 2000 grit and some water/soap lube then hit it with some polish.

My Cobra is the same way, it's a total garage queen with maybe a few hundred miles a year.

When I clean the tail pipes I just rub some mother's polish on them to get them shiny. There's still some imperfections left afterwards but I just dont have a lot of time to chase them.

DSG2003Mach1 · Sep 8, 2018

HudsonFalcon said:
I would start with 2000 grit and some water/soap lube then hit it with some polish.

My Cobra is the same way, it's a total garage queen with maybe a few hundred miles a year.

When I clean the tail pipes I just rub some mother's polish on them to get them shiny. There's still some imperfections left afterwards but I just dont have a lot of time to chase them.

tailpipes I dont care about, I wiped the loose stuff off and thats fine but mine aren't really visible on the solid axle setup.

COOL COBRA · Sep 8, 2018

Be sure the tips are stainless & not chrome. I did my Borla setup, exhaust is stainless, tips are chrome. I started w/400 grit and finished with 3000k grit. On the tips, just tar remover & chrome polish.

DSG2003Mach1 · Sep 8, 2018

COOL COBRA said:
View attachment 1514424 Be sure the tips are stainless & not chrome. I did my Borla setup, exhaust is stainless, tips are chrome. I started w/400 grit and finished with 3000k grit. On the tips, just tar remover & chrome polish.View attachment 1514423

I checked MRTs site, they were stand alone tips I bought

crazycarlo · Sep 9, 2018

Try some 0000 steel wool or extra fine brass wool.

TwinScrewSVT · Sep 9, 2018

DSG2003Mach1 said:
Ive got some polished stainless exhaust tips that have been on the car a looong time. There's all kinds of...I dont even know... stuck to em from DD duty. Theres also a spot on the top of each tip where they were too close to the bumper cover and got marred a little bit over time.

I tried some never dull polish wad and it took some stuff off but still leaves a bit desired. I'm going to guess I'll need to do a multi-step polish just not quite sure where to start.

Mothers mag polish with a drill buffer

M240Bravo · Sep 11, 2018

https://www.svtperformance.com/foru...icial-guide-to-polishing-your-exhaust.568985/

Best post on it, just sucks the pics are gone. I used this to do mine too.

DSG2003Mach1 · Sep 11, 2018

M240Bravo said:
https://www.svtperformance.com/foru...icial-guide-to-polishing-your-exhaust.568985/

Best post on it, just sucks the pics are gone. I used this to do mine too.

thanks but not trying to polish the pipes, you dont even see em on a solid axle car. This is just cleaning up tips that were already done. In further research apparently they changed em at some point and they were just polished, it looks like mine are chrome...go figure. I'll soak em in some tar/bug remover and get some chrome polish

jayk17 · Sep 26, 2018

I use Chemical Guy's Metal Shine. It has micro abrasives so no need to use steel wool.

CobraBob · Sep 26, 2018

jayk17 said:
I use Chemical Guy's Metal Shine. It has micro abrasives so no need to use steel wool.

Excellent product. But steel wool is still recommended for cleaning the tip of surface grime for optimal results.

@DSG2003Mach1, here's a great video showing the entire recommended process when using Chemical Guy's Metal Shine. I recommend watching the whole video as it's only 6 minutes long. Worth the view and it should answer all of your questions.

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