MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: GTIdanman on April 11, 2015, 10:14:16 am

Title: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: GTIdanman on April 11, 2015, 10:14:16 am

What's best for cleaning up dirty exhurst pipes?

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: bigeyd on April 11, 2015, 10:25:18 am

I use meguiers nxt metal polish http://www.polishedbliss.co.uk/acatalog/meguiars-nxt-all-metal-polysh-cat20.html
Rub it on and polish it off,they come up a treat

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: GTIdanman on April 11, 2015, 10:26:49 am

Cool, cheers! Seems everyone I clean them with soap or whatever they come up ok but caked in crap again a week later! Will give it a try.

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: bigeyd on April 11, 2015, 10:33:33 am

The very nature of them being exhaust pipes means they won't stay clean forever,my decay ones get very sooty but clean up well.

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: raven8472 on April 11, 2015, 02:08:45 pm

Engine cleaner. , let it sit for a few minutes , wash off. Then 0000 grade wirewool and some Autosol metal polish and 20 minutes of graft.

Seemed to do the trick on my heavily soiled baked on pipes when I bought my GTI.

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: GTIdanman on April 11, 2015, 08:45:21 pm

thanks guys. just hate looking at them dirty. takes so much away from the back end.

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: prp74 on April 11, 2015, 11:22:00 pm

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,94454.0.html

Title: Re: Dirty exhaust pipes!
Post by: Horatio on April 12, 2015, 02:05:58 pm

Give them a going over with 0 grade wire wool and autosol, apply a bit more and then buff. Will make future cleaning a doddle  :happy2: