Auto Obsessed here, we are going to show you how to clean your exhaust tips keep them maintained
and looking new. To achieve this we have products manufactured by P21s, Sonus, Chemical Guys,
1z nextzett, Griot's Garage, Buff and Shine steel wool, some miscellaneous brushes and our
dark bottom of the carwash mitt. The products you choose will depend on the condition of the exhaust
tips. What we do here for a best practice is we start out and try to achieve most of this in our
wash stage so starting out with our wash solution and just our undercarriage mitt that probably will
not take a lot off but at least takes the dirt and contaminants off the tips. To go further we
usually use a polishing soap this is a polishing soap by pP21s it's very similar to an SOS pad so
you would wet the sponge put the sponge in the soapy solution and we would polish and trying
to remove as much as the debris as we can, if it needs more than that yet we would go with a
steel wool we carry a few different types of steel wool few different grades a 00, 0000 and 0000 same
thing we'll dip the steel wool in water rub it into the polishing soap this will get rid of most
of the contamination, most of the debris on the exhaust tips in addition we can use a strong APC
with some brushes and this we can use inside just to get that trailing edge or a little bit farther
into the exhaust tip if we need anything further than this then sometimes we'll go with an aluminum
restore product by Sonus this has a little bit of acid in it we'll do this as well in the wash stage
this might loosen up some of the carbon buildup on the exhaust tip we do this as well in the
wash stage we'll rinse it off thoroughly that's about as much as we're going to get done in the
wash stage then what we do is once the vehicle is dry and we're finished with the vehicle at
that point we'll go in and do the do a polishing stage on the exhaust tips so we'll start out by
hand we might be used something like p21s ask real courage for example Chemical Guys or something a
bit stronger we use this Sonus aluminum polish if still we can't get it achieved by hand then
we might bring in a machine and machine polish the exhaust tips with aluminum polish once we get the
tips to where we want them it's very important to put some sort of protection barrier on them
this Sonus aluminum sealing works fantastic for this so we'll use that some of the nano coatings
are also available for exhaust tips and then in between washing we just do the wash stage and most
of the time the exhaust tips will remain clean from there once they're fully protected so now
we'll go on and work on the exhaust tip see what kind of steps were going to need to bring these
back to a near new finish upon further inspection these exhaust tips have not been cleaned in quite
a while they've got a lot of carbon buildup it's going to need quite a bit more than just the soap
solution and polishing soap so I'm going to start out with just letting a pre silk a little bit with
an all-purpose cleaner this one here is Ines it onesie it's quite strong I'm just going to
spray it on straight we can already see some carbon coming off we can use some of our our
wheel brushes and you use the stronger one right now this we can get a little bit of the edge done
we can see the carbon coming out this is why it's a really good idea as well to be wearing
gloves you can see that APC is starting to cut cut quite well I'm going to go into the polishing soap
stage now we'll see how much of this we can take off at this stage we probably going to have to go
a little bit coarser with it we'll start out with this so I've got a good amount of soap this seems
to work a lot better if we've got quite a bit of soap on it I'm just going to scrub the edges want
to make sure this car the exhaust tips are very close to the bumper I don't want to contact the
bumper I don't want to scratch the bumper at all so I'm just being careful with it the top
of its coming out really nice we're going to have to work quite a bit on this bottom part
of it and then get as far as you can down just going to rinse it out put some more soap on it
just going to continue on using the polishing soap to try and get this buildup removed it's
already coming out quite well there's still going to be a couple stages here
it's it is a really heavy buildup so let's just finish this up with the polishing soap
just using my fingers to protect the top part here just so we're not running the soap against
it okay I'm just going to rinse it off or just get an inspection of how this is coming out
so we can see we did get a lot of it off but I've got the big build up on the bottom which
is normal so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to use some of the steel wool with the polishing
soap the steel wool is a bit more abrasive we're going to get off try and take off all
of it in this stage now this this looks like it's going to work really well so for this example I'm
using the triple zero steel wool so it takes a little bit of elbow grease but it is coming out
again I'm running my fingers to protect so I'm not running the steel wool up against the paint
these are really tight so they're difficult what we can do in between them as well is we
can use a wheel brush this will clean them get right in between there between the body we can
just gently use the wheel brush as well again we can use something like this for the inner
so rinse it off and we'll take a look and see if we need any more stages on this wash stage
okay so upon final inspection most of this is off we just need to work this a little bit more with
the steel wolf there's some on this top edge on here for my likings I like it to come in a
little ways but we're just about there I'm just going to put some of the polishing soap directly
onto the steel wool that really helps a lot I'm just going to get inside there it's coming along
very well we've got about as much completed as we can in the wash stage we take a look at it
the carbon buildup in the soot on the edges and on the inner and outer side is already removed
we've got a little bit of damage this is normal from them being left with that with that carbon
on it for so long so the coating itself is damaged but very happy with the way it came out we can't
do any more in the wash stage now so we're going to go now and do a mild polish on it we'll put
a sealant on it the seedlings just going to keep it easier to maintain so from this point forward
you wash your vehicle you can most of time just take the the undercarriage wash mitt and wipe
them off then go ahead and do a light polish and a sealant every now and then the p21 ask
metal polish works phenomenal takes away bluing a lot of times the yellowing brightens stuff up
so what I'm going to do is just put a little bit of the polish onto a microfiber applicator and
I'm just going to apply the metal polish try and get some on that edge a bit more on here
this product works very easily sometimes you use a little bit of elbow grease with it just
to get some of the staining out but again we got as much staining as we're going to get
out in the wash stage so this now we're just doing this to brighten up the tips
these ones are difficult to get around everything we would normally take more time and go further
back with it do they do the entire exhaust tip for this demonstration we're just going to do
the front of it so we'll just let that put a little bit more in we'll let it sit we'll let
it haze up and once it Hayes's up we'll use a microfiber and we'll just buff it off by hand
we've let the Polish haze and now we're just going to take it off with one of our value microfibers
see already very nice and bright so once I get all the polish off then we can go and do our sealant
and that took off any of the yellowing it's just a very very bright bright look now so
we're going to use this aluminum sealant we're just going to use another microfiber
applicator puts them on the applicator and we're just going to coat the entire exhaust
it again what this does is it just increases the longevity of the polish we did it helps
during the maintenance side of it you might have to do this just depends on your area
and if you're how much carbon your car puts out the back you might have to do this maybe every
month every couple months just depends we find that really increases how long how long we can
go in between polishing we've let the sealant haze now we're just going to take it off and
it can can't feel this but it is just silk silky smooth it's going to take it all off
There you have it, you can see the results of our after just how much of a turnaround
these exhaust tips made we got really great results on these exhaust tips these products
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