How To Clean And Polish Chrome Exhaust Tips

Soak a clean rag and lay it over the spot overnight.

How to clean and polish chrome exhaust tips. Heres a quick How-To on some really nasty exhaust tips. While chrome is tougher than paint it can be scratched and excessive polishing can wear through the plating. Wipe down the surface with a sponge or some rags.

I use Scotch-Brite pad soaked in metal polish and remove carboncaked on dirt. If the chrome has baked on exhaust deposits a cloth or microfibre and a metal polish like Meguiars NXT Metal Polish and if that doesnt work then use a fine wire wool and the metal polish. Get The Right Exhaust Tips For Your Vehicle.

You need to remove these so the rust doesnt grow and so you can give a proper shine to the chrome. I actually wet sanded it after 0000 wool and used optimum metal polish to remove the haze. Originally Posted by TTQ B4U.

Put on gloves to protect your hands from harsh degreasing chemicals. Gibson Slash Exhaust Tip. Here I am using Optimum Metal Polish and 0000 steel wool on the insides of the tips.

From what Ive read it also seems to be a 2 stage process if the exhausts are quite sooty like mine - step 1 use something like alloy wheel cleaner to. Use steel wool for very dirty exhaust tips. Try soaking with WD-40 or something similar to loosen.

0000 steel wool left scratches on my stainless steel exhaust. Its a bit more work for marginally shiner pipes D. Step 4 - Polish.