1200 gs exhaust down pipes

[patboy]

My 1200gs has done a good few miles and the down pipes from the cyclinders have gone a dark rust colour, thou not actually rusted, if you know what I mean. The silencer box and side pipes are fine. Can you use any particular stuff on them to shine them up or is it to late?

 

[Paul S]

Try steel wool and autosol - worked on mine

 

[talonfs]

Hein Gericke do an exhaust cleaner which works pretty well - mind you it is very nasty stuff giving off fumes and cuasing itchy skin.

 

[Attleborough]

Hein Gericke do an exhaust cleaner which works pretty well - mind you it is very nasty stuff giving off fumes and cuasing itchy skin.

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+1 - Works well but you also need to avoid getting it on aluminium as well.

 

[GSmonkey]

Wonder Wheels will help - followed by Autosol and a lot of elbow grease.

..............could just buy some chrome pipes - they appear on ebay every now and again.

 

[Dabba]

Its part of the character - if we all let them go rusty none of us will lose out at resale time . Using wire wools got to mean the problem's back again in half the time

 

[The Bede]

Its part of the character

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... Wash them and they keep pretty well. No need for nasty scratchy stuff like steel wool

... Discolouration? ... Authentic charm

 

[Engineer]

I used Solvol Autosol from day one whether they needed it or not.

Now after 25,600 ish miles they are a lovely shiny golden brown and seem to be staying that way - not a hint of rust. I just top up the Solvol treatment every 3 or 4 weeks, other than that just wash the bike.

 

[gipsymagpie]

Hein Gericke stuff

I third (?) the Hein Gericke stuff. It is amazing (and it does sting like £$%!). It turns your exhaust the silver, stainless steel it should have been all along. None of this golden brown rubbish!

 

[Allan Davies]

PatBoy
leave well alone if I were ewe. As I had the same browning on mine and after washing the bike the other week decided to get the autosol and wire wool out, like mentioned above. I started on a test area, just incase and thought great its coming shiney. Then it was like painting skirting boards, once ewe start ewe have to do the whole of the downstairs, so it all looks the same So anyway nearly an hour later (complete with crazed knuckles, bloody exhaust studs ) and all the pipes are nice and shiney I even dragged SWMBO in the garage to admire them Now three weeks later they are back to the nice shiney brown I started with Waist of fecking time that was I can tell yer. So as long as it is NOT RUST leave well alone and just polish like Engineer said and all will be well HTH

 

[Wedders_Gasman]

Brown Headers

I had mine polished during the winter and the polisher cum exhaust maker said to stop them going brown again spray with silicone to stop the s**t sticking as this is what causes the browning. They have so far just turned the gold colour but no brown yet.

 

[Allan Davies]

Can you expand on the type and method of applying said silicone. As in my garage the bit box has Silicone grease spray and silicone bathroom sealer etc and I don't want to be applying the wrong type of stuff now do I :whatthefe

 

[Wedders_Gasman]

Brown Headers

Silicone spray lubricant, it goes on wet, dries to a film but doesn't stick, it gets mucky but keeps the crap off.

I have used it on the forks as well and it stops the crud sticking to them as well.

 

[deaninkl]

mine went blue, and gold from day one.... I just wash them as I do the rest of the bike, figure if I pollish the crap will only come back anyway. basically its a BMW thing...