How To Clean Chrome Pipes On A Motorcycle
Cleaning your motorcycles chrome pipes.
How to clean chrome pipes on a motorcycle. While chrome is tougher than paint it can be scratched and excessive polishing can wear through the plating. This removes the last traces of polish and perfects the finish. Even if youve given the downpipes and catalyser a chemical peel youre still going to spend plenty of time lying on your side polishing and buffing.
You try to dodge it safely and you seem to. Anyway I had a 94 RS pearl and the pipes turned a really beautiful almost purplish-blue particularly in the area where they merged before entering the colostomy bag. A clean ride with a gleaming body and shiny chrome pipes shows you take pride in your ride.
We get lots of calls at RevZilla about exhaust bluing. Might be next time when I am washing my bike will use Cif on the silencer and update the result here. Most responses are jokes about how he should get his pipes chrome plated.
Wrap the fiberglass around the tubing. Whatever has your pipes looking funny can come off with enough elbow grease. Residue from oil grease and fingerprints can discolor chrome when the pipe reaches operating temperature.
You can get it at any of your local Honda dealerships. Some people like to wash the exhaust again with motorcycle shampoo before the final buffing. Stainless-steel pipes can be cleaned using mild acids.
The pipes on my GS never really got blue but have turned a kind of copper color. Heres a quick and easy way to remove it. Love it or hate it chrome looks awful once it gets old and corroded.