Cleaning Black Exhaust Tips

[TW666]

My first car due soon with black exhaust tips (c63s night pack), what should I use to get them spotless without risking damaging the black plating. On dirty silver tips in the past I’ve used very fine wire wool with Autosol. I’m guessing a gentle clean with Autosol should be ok. What other products can you recommend ?

 

[sgregory124]

My first car due soon with black exhaust tips (c63s night pack), what should I use to get them spotless without risking damaging the black plating. On dirty silver tips in the past I’ve used very fine wire wool with Autosol. I’m guessing a gentle clean with Autosol should be ok. What other products can you recommend ?

Autosol yes, wire wool most definitely NO, just use a soft cloth. I've used wire wool in the past on chrome exhaust tips and ruined them.

My car is also happens to be a night pack and to be honest, I just cleaned the tips along with the rest of the car (basically, snow foam, shampoo, rinse, dry) they didn't seem to need any special treatment to come up with a nice shine on them. But then the car isn't getting much use at the moment so they weren't exactly dirty to begin with.

 

[ALFAitalia]

You wont ruin decent chrome with wire wool....much to hard.....but you will damage stainless .....but fine scratches like that can easily be polished out of SS.

 

[Alps]

you will damage night pack exhausts with wire wool. Autosol should be enough, depending on car they do Pitt/chip a fair bit.

 

[DamoC43]

I've used oven cleaner to great effect. Spray on and leave for an hour, gets majority of the black off, then finish with auosol polish

 

[Trickythemerc]

WD 40 and micro fibre cloth works well without any risk of scratching.