Hi guys this is my first post, recently I have been reading up on tire sizes and rim sizes only to name a few and decided its my turn to add to the madness and do my first post. I ran into a post talking about how impossible it was to clean the baked on grime on the inside of the muffler tips. Most people have now opted out to painting them with hi temp paint as a last resort. Well last night I was at my brothers house working on putting in spacers for the rear when he asked why I never clean the inside of the tips? I too like the rest, let him know that I have tired everything and nothing works. Then he showed me Wizards metal polish. http://www.firstclassshine.com/11011.htm. I had seen it before Its like pink cotton candy but man did it do the trick. It took me a good 45 min because of all the creases and what not but the end result was unbeatable the longer you work at it the better it works.

 

In reality, and believe it or not, some of us actually prefer the look of the painted exhaust tip. It retains the cool rectangular shape of the stainless surround without having the inconsistent look of the smaller circular shape in the center of the pipe. Even though it's painted black, we still keep it clean, though...

 

100% ditto.

 

So far, my muffler tips really didn't bother me much in the last 2 years of driving. I kept it Zaino waxed and polished in every car wash.

 

meguiar's mag and aluminum polish paste does the trick too...

 

Could not have said it better myself.

 

Exactly. A nice shiny chrome lip that surrounds the blackness of the exhaust. Much more pleasing to the eye, IMHO.