Hard as steel

[brettS4]

I came to the conclusion this weekend that my car's clear coat is harder than steel. Literally. To get any correction on my S4 a couple months ago I had to pick up some foamed wool pads combined with M105. The RIDS just barely came out with that after a half dozen passes.


So last week I picked up a used exhaust system at a steal of a price. Since it looked its age (15 years old) but was stainless steel, I decided to sand down the pipes and polish them out with the same wool/M105 combo. It easily cleaned up like this with just a couple passes...

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Mind you, the M105 didn't remove the corrosion. But it took out the sanding marks with no problem at all.

[TTQ B4U]

Impressive results!

[dmayer]

Nice pipes - good job!

[AJS]

Wow! I might take my mufflers off and do that. Incredible job

[Chramiji]

stainless steel is about as soft as steel gets (its really soft and more prone to scratching than almost anything besides aluminum...).... but the polish job looks amazing!

[fly07sti]

That exhaust is gleamin now Brett!

[brettS4]

Just for the record, I also tried the wool pads with FG400 but the results weren't as good or fast. After tearing up one wool pad I switched over to a ThinPro gray (heavy cut) pad with M105 and got nearly as good results as with the wool.

[lolitsDanny]

Wow amazing difference. I also have an S4 and haven't tackled a proper correction with it but the previous owner completely trashed it at the dealer. It was an Audi employee owned car he leased.

[richy]

I think you were just looking for a reason to show off your pipes....LOL

[brettS4]

Maybe a little. :) But mostly I wanted to show that stainless steel can be polished fairly easily. I was looking for examples online and didn't find much other than people polishing by hand with Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish. I also had that on hand and it worked ok, but the M105 was as good and a whole lot faster with my GG6.