How to clean/polish 06 MCS exhaust tips?

[quentinberg007]

I noticed the exhaust tips on my wife's MCS look terrible. There is quite a bit of rust at the bottom of the tip (where water trickles out when you've shut the vehicle off). What are my options for cleaning/polishing them? Can I replace them? Am I going to have to buy a new backbox? I'll try to get a photo to show the condition.

[quentinberg007]

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[The Eggman]

I just use metal polish on a JCW system.

[Sooper Rob]

Had a similar problem. With metal polish (Autosol is good) and lots of patience, I achieved good results

[M.O.S]

If that fails you can get new tips from a dealer. The old ones are secured with an allen key type bolt. Remove and keep this (may need wd40 to make it undoable!) slide the old tip on and replace with the new one. Then reattach the bolt and tighten

Job done - takes minutes!

[quentinberg007]

Thanks, guys! Off to apologize to the wife (I jumped on her about not letting me know they were getting surface rust in the first place.)

[iain cooper]

also don't forget to wash them when you wash the car.........yours look a bit neglected tbh

[emmett]

Quickest way to sort that is to get in there with a small-ish paint brush and a bit of either silver or black hammerite. Up to you if you trust yourself enough to do it without masking the surrounding chrome or just go in there free-hand.

The other ways mentioned above will work as well. But I'd guess the cost will be higher. If you buy a replacement tip then the same thing will happen to that one unless it's made of high-grade stainless.

Personally, not a massive fan of the standard cooper tip. Would be better to have anything else sticking out there... the JCW tip is probably my fav at the moment.

[M.O.S]

Quote: Originally Posted by emmett (original)

Quickest way to sort that is to get in there with a small-ish paint brush and a bit of either silver or black hammerite. Up to you if you trust yourself enough to do it without masking the surrounding chrome or just go in there free-hand.

The other ways mentioned above will work as well. But I'd guess the cost will be higher. If you buy a replacement tip then the same thing will happen to that one unless it's made of high-grade stainless.

Personally, not a massive fan of the standard cooper tip. Would be better to have anything else sticking out there... the JCW tip is probably my fav at the moment.

Paint it That would look ridiculous! Follow rob's instructions or get new. Once you have new ones, wax them and keep them clean and this shouldn't happen! Most don't do this

[emmett]

I think you're just missing the point a bit.

Need to paint the rusty bits inside the tubes past the lip at the edge. Not the outside! The outside needs a bit of a clean but will tarnish again soon enough anyway.

I'd probably choose black rather than silver.

[M.O.S]

Quote: Originally Posted by emmett (original)

I think you're just missing the point a bit.

Need to paint the rusty bits inside the tubes past the lip at the edge. Not the outside! The outside needs a bit of a clean but will tarnish again soon enough anyway.

I'd probably choose black rather than silver.

You said exaust tips - to us that means the chrome tip. If you mean the pipe say how to clean the pipe! Just get some autosol that should do it. Infact that'll do the tips as well. Simple! Although I can't understand how it gets rusty in there - I don't clean mine, and in 3.5yrs mine has no rust there...

[emmett]

depends on how much condensation your type of driving generates. Personally, as I'm a bit of a lead foot... I'm sure much of the condensation in my exhaust gets spat out at high velocity and gets no chance to hang around. Possibly the way you store you car might also have something to do with it as well. If you store on a level drive or road facing the sun then that would be better conditions for making rust than facing downhill in the shade.