No need for any scrubing just use Spray Kleen. This stuff has been around for years and is unreal! We have used it for diesel boats and by buddies use it to clean soot off jet aircraft at the airport.

The stuff is the best I have used.

Call them and order a case 604.945.5758

 

Order a case? Good sales pitch. Are you the owner? 604 sounds familiar..... I know someone in the household buys cases of toiletpaper, because that's what women do.

Anyway, never heard of it.

 

Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I use a pinch of 0000 steel wool and a spray of Liquid Wrench or WD40, whichver I have on hand and it takes 100% of the soot off within a few seconds of rubbing. And as an added bonus, you can buy it by the can at Chinamart for about $2.79. No reason to buy cases of the product at all, just one can will do the trick.

 

You don't have to order a case....you can buy a little bottle if you can swing it?
No I don't have anything to do with the company. Just bought the stuff for years and know it works well. Order a small bottle or none for all I care?

It works well on all sorts of things and is pretty cheap to buy or you can stick with elbow grease and WD-40?

 

I've always used the turtle wax chrome polish, but im not sure on years worth, good thing to give the bumper a shine though.

 

most of it came off with goof off. Now I just got to get it out of the little pits. If I can't get 100% of it I really am not that worried about it.

 

Very fine steel wool should work nicely for the little pits.

 

I dont think there was a sound change (none that I noticed anyway)
For those that use steel wool make sure your using stainless steel wool or else your making work for yourself. Reg steel wool leaves micro traces of steel imbedded in/on the surface that rusts and stains your surface.
On boats steel wool is perpetual maintenance, the more you rub the more rubbing you have to do LOL

 

I've always had good luck with SOS pads.
We used them on junkyard bumpers and the chrome looks like new.
The diesel soot comes off easily

 

I use GoJo hand cleaner on my bumper and rims. Put some on a paper towel and wipe. Buff with a clean paper towel. Cleans brake residue off real easy.

 

When I had my 01 I had my exhaust out of the side but you still deal with it on the fender and your rear wheel turns black, I always used goof off to remove it. A buddy said he used vinegar and simple green on his, said it was magic, I never tried it tho.

 

Mothers chrome polish takes it right off. No scrubbing needed. But then I don't let it accumulate more than 3-4K miles.

 

You sure vinegar and Simple Green won't cause an explosion?

Always makes me nervous mixing things ever since Little Johnny blew up the shed while mixing innocent looking ingredients to see what they'll do.

 

Wow, a lot of you guys use stuff that's absolutely the last thing you would want to put on paint. I'd first wash it off with a good car wash soap solution, and see what that gets off. Then use some detailing clay to see what that does, it'll work wonders on pretty much anything that is bonded. If that doesn't fully remove it then try some professional body solvent, sometimes known as "acid". It'll eat away at the stuff, but don't leave it on very long or your clear coat will be gone. Only use the "acid" as a last resort because if your not familiar with it then you can cause some real damage to the paint.

If you want a good way to prevent this than add a "tip" to the end of your exhaust that vents it out past the edge of your bumper, that way it won't build up as much or at all. A turn down tip will work too, but if you live on a dirt road then it will just stir up dust when the road is dry.

 

I think we were all assuming that the bumper was chrome, I agree I would never think of using Chrome polish and deffinatly not scrubbing pads on the paint. Bug and tar remover and/or a clay bar would be a far as I would go on the paint. In my experience for some reason, the soot comes off the paint easier than than the chrome.