Cleaning stainless steel (exhaust)

[st3ph3n]

I want to keep my new baby in pristine sparkling form, but is regular car cleaning products (swissol for me) up to the task or is there something else I should be using?

[oobster]

I use AutoSol on my exhaust, seems to bring it up nice

[Stiks]

Autosol, or Meguiars do an NXT product that works well on steel and chrome. I have both. the nxt smells nice

Keith

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Also when installing a new exhaust, wipe of any finger prints on the system because they'll be left for ever

once the system gets hot. C&C use alcohol to wipe the after they have installed IIRC

[st3ph3n]

I didn't end up getting it done at C+C as they were talking about hacking bits off the centre section.

The backbox was handled at all times with gloves mind you, and I couldn't see any prints on it, so that's a bonus.

I'll take a stroll into Halfrauds and see if they have any Autosol or the Meguiars stuff.

I do enjoy nice smelling cleaning products. The swissol samurai wax smells so nice that you could probably eat a spoonful, a la clarkson on top gear. The car bath smells of coconuts too, but I don't like the taste of them.

[tino]

Err I used Jif (now Cif I believe, sounds vaguely like an STD) seemed to work quite well

[JamesF]

Autosol works well if you keep on top of the cleaning but Autoglym has a grittier compund and is good at removing those stubborn stains. What am I saying, aye get autoglym it's the dugs baws !!!

[st3ph3n]

I wash it once a week mainly, any less than that and it makes baby jesus cry.

I gave it a quick blast (from a distance of course) with the power washer at work today seeing as we had some rain t'other day. There's usually a big problem doing it with that as it ends up with horrible water marks, but a combination of better soap, and me taking it out for a 10 minute blast right after means it's almost as sparkly as the hands on swissol treatment, which it received on Sunday of course.

Found a great benefit for the exhaust too. The security gaurds can hear me driving past and so the gate is always open for me leaving the compound!