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Offline Booth11

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #10 on: 20 January 2014, 12:54 »
Also give them a blast with a pressure washer first as it's surprising how much carbon that removes.
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Offline dubber36

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #11 on: 20 January 2014, 17:58 »
Funny how things have changed. It always used to be diesels that had dirty tailpipes.
Red Mk6 gone replaced with a white Mk7 which has gone too. Green Mk2 here to stay.

Offline Ginge 35Edition

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #12 on: 20 January 2014, 19:14 »
Funny how things have changed. It always used to be diesels that had dirty tailpipes.

 :grin: yeah my Bavarian soot chucker has clean pipes all of the time! The 35 was always being cleaned.

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #13 on: 20 January 2014, 19:19 »
Funny how things have changed. It always used to be diesels that had dirty tailpipes.

It's the bane of my life, since I ditched the cat it's horrendous trying to keep them clean :angry:

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #14 on: 20 January 2014, 19:53 »
Not enough of a hassle to make me switch to a diesel  :tongue:
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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #15 on: 20 January 2014, 19:57 »
Not enough of a hassle to make me switch to a diesel  :tongue:

Not even one with more horses, lol?

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #16 on: 20 January 2014, 20:50 »
Belgom.....

Offline Booth11

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Re: Polishing exhaust tips
« Reply #17 on: 20 January 2014, 22:18 »
Not enough of a hassle to make me switch to a diesel  :tongue:

Not even one with more horses, lol?

Nope.  Not when there's a mk7 R on the (distant) horizon  :smug:
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