How to Clean and Polish Exhaust Tips - Exterior Car Detail Parts 8 and 9

**ihaveacamaro** · 04-13-2015, 07:33 PM

The next part after cleaning your wheels and tires is to clean your exhaust tips and polish them if needed. So these are the subjects of the next two videos!

Hope you enjoy

Cleaning Exhaust Tips:

Polishing Exhaust Tips:

**tropicsteve** · 04-13-2015, 08:38 PM

dirty + grungy = bad
clean + shiny = good.

p.s. I think having some female dental assistants handing you supplies from sterile draped trays while you work would add something to the video.

**Ronkh** · 04-13-2015, 08:39 PM

Cool vids

I can`t move that fast

**ihaveacamaro** · 04-14-2015, 12:09 PM

Originally Posted by tropicsteve

dirty + grungy = bad
clean + shiny = good.

p.s. I think having some female dental assistants handing you supplies from sterile draped trays while you work would add something to the video.

Haha now that is a development I could get behind! But why don`t we go all the way and get some good looking nurses in the videos too

Originally Posted by Ronkh

Cool vids

I can`t move that fast

The magic of video editing

Thanks for watching!

**addysdaddy** · 04-14-2015, 12:53 PM

You should try P21S Polishing Soap Assuming the exhaust is not REALLY bad, this is a miracle product and requires much less time.

**ihaveacamaro** · 04-14-2015, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by addysdaddy

You should try P21S Polishing Soap Assuming the exhaust is not REALLY bad, this is a miracle product and requires much less time.

Looks like a really good, once every month or two product. May have to give it a try for myself. Unfortunately these exhausts weren`t properly polished for years so I`m not sure if that would`ve cut it? Do you think so?

**Ronkh** · 04-14-2015, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by ihaveacamaro

Looks like a really good, once every month or two product. May have to give it a try for myself. Unfortunately these exhausts weren`t properly polished for years so I`m not sure if that would`ve cut it? Do you think so?

only one way to find out

NEW VIDEO

**tom p.** · 04-14-2015, 06:23 PM

Yeah, once those exhaust tips are neglected for such a long period of time, you get to a point of no return. OTOH, it is a specific "effort" to clean them every week during the routine car wash. There`s no way to avoid that apart from not driving the car. I simply think of the exhaust tips as the "fifth" and "sixth" wheels on the car. I spritz a little wheel cleaner and come back a few mins later for agitation with the sponge. The result is pretty over the long term. I probably polish 2 or 3 times a year.

Camaro, you mention the #0000 steel wool in the video. That`s my first line of attack for a salvage effort like this.

Chem Guys as a very good metal polish. That`s what I`ve been using over the past year and get good results with it.

**addysdaddy** · 04-15-2015, 06:40 AM

Hey Tom, I haven`t tried the CG polish but Optimum makes an excellent metal polish as well. For most situations though, the P21s Polishing Soap is amazing and super easy to use. It one of those wow products I think everyone should have.

btw, has the weather warmed up enough so you can turn on the outside water yet?

**tom p.** · 04-15-2015, 09:44 AM

LOL, yes, I wash almost year-round. My threshold is 22F, below that the icing gets too serious.

Thanks for the suggestion on the P21S product, Addy. I`ll give that a try when I place my next order.

**ihaveacamaro** · 04-15-2015, 09:50 AM

Originally Posted by tom p.

Yeah, once those exhaust tips are neglected for such a long period of time, you get to a point of no return. OTOH, it is a specific "effort" to clean them every week during the routine car wash. There`s no way to avoid that apart from not driving the car. I simply think of the exhaust tips as the "fifth" and "sixth" wheels on the car. I spritz a little wheel cleaner and come back a few mins later for agitation with the sponge. The result is pretty over the long term. I probably polish 2 or 3 times a year.

Camaro, you mention the #0000 steel wool in the video. That`s my first line of attack for a salvage effort like this.

Chem Guys as a very good metal polish. That`s what I`ve been using over the past year and get good results with it.

It seems like there are quite a few good metal polishes. When my Meguiar`s and Adam`s runs out, I`ll be sure to try several different kinds. Thanks for the suggestion!

While I like the results the steel wool gets, I`m just not as big a fan of holding it as I am holding a pad. I know my time spent will be more, but to me it is worth it.