[Gator Bite]

I've tried many chemical cleaners, including many of those mentioned in this thread, and I've found the Borla polish to work better and easier than all of them on Stainless Steel. but this will only make your tip look clean and new again.

Chemicals work well if the surface is smooth and only discolored or oxidized, like with the BMW exhaust pipe in the previous post. But you can't get a Boxster exhaust tip looking like that with chemical cleaners because the original surface is brushed with a very course, very deep texture.

If you want to bring a tip to a chrome like finish, you're going to need to spend some time smoothing that surface with a buffing wheel. Here's an example on a Cayman S tip. This tip had some light mileage and use, maybe 10,000 miles.

Before:








After Buffing and Polishing:












In these examples, I used the Borla polish to clean the inside of the tips, where I couldn't get with the buffing wheel.