What's the best way to bring the chrome back to life? I've used some cleaners to no avail. Thanks J

 

I've used Mother's chrome polish and that seems to do the trick even they are fairly dull. But I think I read somewhere that the tips are made of aluminum. Could be wrong on that though.

Just try this stuff if you haven't. How bad are they?

 

^^^ I've used the same product with good results

 

The chrome polish will work fine on aluminum. Chrome is much harder so the polish is a little more aggressive but it won't hurt anything. It just means less work on your part.

 

Try using water with baking soda, wipe, rinse then wax. works well if your trying to be cheap.

 

LOL at user name

Flitz works wonders.

www.flitz.com

 

Nevr Dull

 

Brasso. Sounds stupid but it worked wonders for me... Got rid of 7 years of garbage on my exhaust tips.

 

+1 good stuff

 

believe it or not vodka works perfect on chrome. I read its 15 most unlikely uses on msn last week

 

Mothers Chrome polish (jar, not bottle) works well. My tips still look new.

 

I have a bottle of mothers chrome polish, works great. As a matter of fact, when i first got it, my friend happend to come over after i washed my car and was like "dude, did you get an exhaust" i said "nope, just cleaned em ". Lol, it was the first time i used it and there was really more grime than i thought on my tips, the soap for washing cars just doesn't cut it.a

 

Garkon:

Thanks dude, while we're on the subject what about the exhaust right behind the pipes, see how it's black *(mostly) well mine is chipping what can I use to make this look new again? I tried spraying one spot w/ some matte black spray paint, but it's really hard to get the paint in there, even after masking everything. Did anyone else have this problem and fix it?

 

I'm talking about the muffler itself if you couldn't tell from my weird description

 

^ Looks like your description fooled the lot of us I guess.

I don't know. I guess scrub them with wire brushes and acid or abrasive of your choice.

 

Yeah, that description was a little off, got the point across though...

Hmm, if you cant manage to get the spray paint on there after cleaning it up, i'd say get a brush and some paint, and paint it that way. It's just black on your muffler, cant mess it up too much i'd say.

 

If your painting the exhaust, pipes or mufflers, you might want to look into high temp paint. The exhaust gets pretty hot and im sure you dont want it do it again in the future.

Hi Garkon you were at the meet in stockton back in april right?

 

I used mothers billet polish in the jar on mine, they looked new.

 

this stuff is amazing. we use it on all the chrome on our boats that gets subjected to texas gulf salt 24/7.

 

Hell yeah, was a great time. You going to the all cali meet?

 

naw, dont feel like driving 6 hrs there and then 6 hrs back. maybe next years will be closer. I really wanna go cause i know its gonna be awesome but just too far.

 

So I guess Im goin' to try the brush method with some matte black high temp paint. (I think it's going to be hard to get this paint in a jar, might just have to spray some in a container and brush it on from them.


Then after that's looking right, I'm going to use one of the above mentioned products and hopefully my tips will be lookin' like new again.

Thanks for the help.

J

 

i say Brasso or Noxon (green bottle)...they are both amazing