timneedscoffee10
Go Kart Champion
So I'm not too proud to admit that my tailpipes are among the most badly neglected in all of GolfMK6-dom. Here's a picture of what I started with. This is at least 6 months of neglect through a very wet fall followed by heavily salted winter roads.
I had a quick 15 minutes to spare, so I grabbed my four products, my gloves, and ran outside:
As you can see in the picture, I started on the driver-side tail pipe with nevr-dull, and was very impressed with the immediate result. Here's the tail-pipe after just two or three minutes of light-pressure rubbing
I hit this with Bar Keepers Friend next, and was pretty happy with the result!
On the passenger side, I started with Bar Keeper's Friend first to see how it did on that first, grimy pass - and the result was absolutely comparable:
Then I hit both pipes with steel wool, and followed up with brasso - both of which did nothing to remove any more carbon - but left an okay shine behind.
All in all - I would very highly recommend both Bar Keeper's Friend and Nevr Dull. Both required very little elbow grease - where steel wool would have had me sitting there for quite a while. Bar Keepers Friend made a more effective first pass than Nevr-Dull, but both did a great job!
I didn't test brasso on the first pass, but it was pretty pointless as a final pass - if anything, it just gave me an excuse to buff the pipes with one more clean cloth, which probably would have had the same result w/o the brasso.
I had a quick 15 minutes to spare, so I grabbed my four products, my gloves, and ran outside:
- 0000 Steel Wool
- Nevr-Dull
- Bar Keeper's Friend
- Brasso
As you can see in the picture, I started on the driver-side tail pipe with nevr-dull, and was very impressed with the immediate result. Here's the tail-pipe after just two or three minutes of light-pressure rubbing
I hit this with Bar Keepers Friend next, and was pretty happy with the result!
On the passenger side, I started with Bar Keeper's Friend first to see how it did on that first, grimy pass - and the result was absolutely comparable:
Then I hit both pipes with steel wool, and followed up with brasso - both of which did nothing to remove any more carbon - but left an okay shine behind.
All in all - I would very highly recommend both Bar Keeper's Friend and Nevr Dull. Both required very little elbow grease - where steel wool would have had me sitting there for quite a while. Bar Keepers Friend made a more effective first pass than Nevr-Dull, but both did a great job!
I didn't test brasso on the first pass, but it was pretty pointless as a final pass - if anything, it just gave me an excuse to buff the pipes with one more clean cloth, which probably would have had the same result w/o the brasso.
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