For Those with Black or Red Boxsters.....

[Carlisabadman986]

Today I realized a cold salty winter had taken its toll on my Muffler and exhaust. Do you have a product and or preferred cleaning method you can recommend to me to get them looking shiny and new again?

Thank you

Originally Posted by Chuck W.

I am anal about shinning and polishing. I honestly enjoy it and love the results. Whether it is the garage floor, the muffler or the car's paint.... love to shine it up.

Over the years I have tried numerous waxes and settled on One Grand Blitz Carnauba as my go to wax for the cars. It is a great wax. Every now and then I would also use P21S Concours Look Carnauba. At times (rarely) One Grand Blitz would fog on the paint and the P21S was great for fixing things up.

Then.... I read about P21S 100% Carnauba Wax. It sounded good so I figured I would give it a shot. I wax the my Guards Red Boxster at least once a month. After 14 years I had the typical light spider webbing on the paint that was visible in the sunlight. After several waxing with the P21S 100% Carnauba Wax my paint is perfect without any viable spider webbing. The paint looks amazing. I am guessing that this would work on black cars too.

I usually don't recommend products like this... but this one deserves a shout out. It does cost about 37% more than the standard P21S wax and $60 for a 6.2 ounce jar isn't cheap. But for me it is well worth it. It appears you can get over ten waxings on the Boxster per jar.

[jb92563]

I use Turtle Black Box myself which is a 96% pure black carnauba wax system with 4% silicone. The Black wax fills in scratches and does not turn white on curing, remaining black, hence the scratch/stone chip filling ability.

It lasts about 2 months before needing rewax but you can stretch that to 3 if you use the detailer spray after washes.

I researched the P21s vs S100 wax and it seems that the P21S uses a White Carnauba wax which is optically superior in its finish but softer and does not last as long as the harder yellowish S100 Carnauba wax.

Also the P21S has Bee's wax mixed in to make it soft and easy to apply, so its not 100% pure Carnauba.

I'd think that a red car would be OK with the yellowish S100 wax but none of the other colored cars would look good with that very slight color offset.

[Chuck W.]

Originally Posted by Carlisabadman986

Today I realized a cold salty winter had taken its toll on my Muffler and exhaust. Do you have a product and or preferred cleaning method you can recommend to me to get them looking shiny and new again?

Thank you

I recently brought back a PSE to life. I have always polished Boxster exhaust by hand, but this one was very weathered. So... I first used a 2" 320 grit Scotch Brite Polishing Ball on a power drill along with Blue Magic Metal Polish Cream. I had gotten the tube of Blue Magic in a gift bag when I entered the Boxster in a PCA Concours d'Elegance event. It was good stuff for taking the top layer of grit. I then used brake cleaner, Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish and applied this by hand using 0000 super fine steel wool . This cleaned it up more and added some shine. Lastly, I put several coat of Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish on by hand rubbing it in well then buffing it with a soft cloth. I would guess I put 10 to 12 hours into the polishing of it.