Exhaust stains around the tip

[pHiLix]

I don't know about you guys but I've got these black stains (more like dots I think) around my exhaust tip on the MPS 3 that are very hard to remove. I think the stains are from the exhaust fumes.

Any tips to get the exhaust tip nice and shiny again?

[kookie]

gentle stainless steel wool with some suds does the trick for me !

[remotegt]

generaly means car maybe running rich or u put your foot down a lot if its leaving little spits around the tip on rear bar. just a bit of elbow grease is needed

[pHiLix]

generaly means car maybe running rich or u put your foot down a lot if its leaving little spits around the tip on rear bar. just a bit of elbow grease is needed

I think my car is running a little rich because it spits out some black dots on the garage floor when I warm it up in the morning. Is this a problem? I think all MPS's do run a bit rich though?

[Doug_MPS6]

Stay away from steel wool - it's too abrasive, and any remnant wool fibres will rust in a day and may embed themselves in the surface you are trying to clean ands later promote more rapid corrosion. Use a good quality paste style metal polish. Or even Brasso from the deli if you can't find the paste stuff in tubes. If you do it regularly, you'll keep the job easy. Leave it for too long and it bakes on. It's a pretty aggressive mixture of stuff, a lot of it acidic sulphurous and nitrous compounds, emerging from the pipes at high temperatures and it can quickly etch its way into metals and onto surfaces.

[240MPS]

I second that no steel wool, plus you get condenstion in the pipes which doesn't help....

[kookie]

surely the exhaust steel would be stronger and able to withstand some 'steel wool' which is more likely cheap aluminium ? anyways, high pressure hose does the trick also

[Doug_MPS6]

Steel wool comes from hydraulic rams!

It's steel, not aluminium (which would make a horrible mess).

[LYNCHY]

Use a wheel cleaner and some elbow grease.....follow up with a metal polish!

Wash reguarly to avoid the build up

[kookie]

Steel wool comes from hydraulic rams!

It's steel, not aluminium (which would make a horrible mess).

wow didn't know that !

haha here I was thinking it was cheap rubbish.......