What you are calling black paint is carbon that will come off start rubbing I swear when I bought my SRT for 4 months I thought my tips where black THEY ARE CHROME someone call head office to get clarity on this .This debate has gone on long enough
Inge

 

Most of them are black mine are. I have seen one or two with silver inside maybe they cleaned the paint off or maybe just a factory screw up.

 

Mine are black on the inside, and have been since I bought the car with 8
miles on it back in 10/04. And, every week I am washing soot off the
outer edges of the exhaust ports. However, I'm hoping that with the
larger SL55 intake that the mixture will run a little leaner and will not
produce so much soot.

Coyote

 

Do a search for cleaners. There are no exhaust tips that are black inside. That is a fact. Scrub them. They arnt black. I am car salesman and have personally drove at least 30 crossfires. The tips are bruched chrome.

 

Yes they do.

 

I think I know the difference between paint and soot.
Of the 30 Crossfires you've driven, how many have been SRT6s?

 

They sure do look black to me to.

 

Indeed.
Here are 2 from cars.com w/painted exhaust tips.
1 has 40 miles on it, the other has 49:
http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...eadExists=true

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail...eadExists=true

 

I have two in the drive way and it ain't soot or residue!

MikeR

 

My tips were painted black, when purchased, with 7 miles on the odo.

 

Ditto for my '04 Alabaster and my '05 Graphite SRT6, both purchased new. See my post #9 above. The insides of the tips were definitely different.

 

I think 6 hours of scrubbing will remove any kind of paint.

 

As you can see Goldwing only two people have said that the tips are not black and everyone else knows they are. Of those two one has admitted to cleaning the black paint/plating off of the tips even though he thought it was carbon. Carbon would have come off in a whole lot less than 4 or 6 hours (depending on which post of his you read) of scrubing with an sos pad and meguires. So we can assume that what was scrubbed off was something that was designed to stick to the metal better than just standard exhaust emissions, something like a paint or a plating of some kind. The other one is stating things as fact which aren't fact and therefore is not a reliable source so you can discount what that poster wrote. There are two possibilities that come to my mind on your exhaust tips....
1) The previous owner polished the tips either because they didn't know
they were supposed to be black or because they didn't want them
black, or....
2) A factory screw up. The tips from a n/a Crossfire ended up on an SRT,
either because of a mistake or possibly they ran out of SRT tips
and didn't want to wait for the next shipment so they just used n/a
tips.
These are the only two things that come to my mind, but who knows it could be something else.

 

ALL SRT-6s have black on the interior of the exhaust tips. DON'T clean the paint off. This is an SRT-6 mark.

 

At 15 miles, right off the dealer lot, the tips were black inside with the polished lip (like they're supposed to be). I think they look better this way anyhow, the exhaust looks "bigger" because you can't really see the small round opening into them.

Mine will stay as designed.

 

Mine are black. I actually had a couple of flakes of the black paint coating coming off, so i repainted it. It's definitely not soot or carbon. It is definitely a factory coating.