How To Clean Exhaust Tailpipes

Cleaning your Stainless Steel Exhaust Tips or Tailpipes.

How to clean exhaust tailpipes. All of our muffler tips or tail pipes are made of high quality 304 grade stainless steel. Put on gloves to protect your hands from harsh degreasing chemicals. For working in close places get a couple of dollar store towels and cut them widthwise into 3 inch strips.

Kind of like tending to a newborn you wipe the exhaust pipe frequently at first. In the spring I clean the tailpipes X4 with Mothers Stainless Steel paste. Regular washing and wiping on a weekly basis takes care of this.

And you have to tend to it. Stick the dowel in a screw gun and go to town. The shiny chrome tailpipes of my Bentley Mulsanne Speed are becoming black with what I guess is probably carbon from the exhaust fumes.

Removing loose stones and other material will help to prolong its life and prevent damage from occurring. Cleaning black tail pipe. Also some of the newer cars have exhaust tips worked into the bumper being part of.

Ive heard wheel cleaner acid is good for breaking down exhaust carbon build up although if the tips are coated in some way i would use with care. Daily driver in Michigan. Then throughout the car washing season I use Meguires Wheel Cleaner with a big fat cloth covered stick blue plastic from AutoZone.

Buff with a clean strip. Rub hard but be careful not to scratch the chrome as you wash it. The degreaser will act to break up interior carbon deposits and rust.