Cleaning and polishing stainless steel?

[Venom]

What's cheap and effective lads exhaust wise?

[michael320]

Brasso, about a 5'er from any good supermarket.

[Lucifer]

I clean my stainless steel exhaust like this:

1) paraffin to remove soot/tar/crap
2) Silvo wadding to finish

Some people would use steel wool but it leaves lines imo. I've recently started using meguires metal polish which I find excellent but you still have to remove the tar/soot crap. Above is my most favoured option.

[Venom]

Autosol was also recommended?

What should I use, just a microfiber?

[Venom]

Thanks for replies

What grade steel wool? Have used 0000 grade on windscreens before without issue.

[Lucifer]

Use a rag for paraffin,then the wadding to polish and a clean soft to buff.
You will wreck the microfibre unless its a €2 shop one and ya don't care.

Autosol is overated they are all just mild abrasives.
The best mirror finish apart from a motorised polish comes from silvo and elbowgrease imho. I put alloy wheel sealent on after but it seems to make no difference haha

[Don B]

I used Autosol and 0000 grade steel wool on my eisenmann

Came up like new

[Gar]

Brillo pad + spit and grit :P

[Venom]

Sorry I should have said, I have 3 pieces I'm wanting to clean gents. Stainless manifold that is just dull no real dirt, a stainless decat that is caked and a stainless remus backbox that the tips are dull but the box is caked.

Want them all shiney before they get put together and put on the car if you get me
[hr]

Brillo pad + spit and grit :P

I could use my mind powers either :hehe!:

[Peter-E36]

Sorry I should have said, I have 3 pieces I'm wanting to clean gents. Stainless manifold that is just dull no real dirt, a stainless decat that is caked and a stainless remus backbox that the tips are dull but the box is caked.

Want them all shiney before they get put together and put on the car if you get me
[hr]

Brillo pad + spit and grit :P

I could use my mind powers either :hehe!:

Why haven't you put up a thread on your e36 on here? The haus not good enough for ya?

Edit: Interested in following up with the updates