Tailpipe Trims - 2.5i Sport

Yal · 05-29-2007, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by ovrkll

Question is, HOW did 20Ducks polish his tip(s)?

with great enthusiasm.

AlanL · 05-29-2007, 11:55 PM

Almost any metal can be given a polished finish with the proper sequence of abrasives. Start out with a light sandpaper and with your way up to 000 steel wool. There are Scotch Brite pads that are the equivalent of those grit sequences starting with either the black or brown and working up to green. Semichrome polish can bring the luster up from there.

Check out Eastwood.com for tons of metal finishing products that are used by body shops.

takedown8 · 05-30-2007, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by AlanL

Almost any metal can be given a polished finish with the proper sequence of abrasives. Start out with a light sandpaper and with your way up to 000 steel wool. There are Scotch Brite pads that are the equivalent of those grit sequences starting with either the black or brown and working up to green. Semichrome polish can bring the luster up from there.

Check out Eastwood.com for tons of metal finishing products that are used by body shops.

Hmmm. This answer is less amusing though.

Samiad · 05-30-2007, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Wondermike

Just to answer on his behalf, he only got it a few weeks back, maybe 6 weeks, not long before Z4um went down because he'd just posted the pics there? It's an 07 plate.

Thanks Wondermike, that's correct.

I think there might even be something in the Z4 brochure that states that the si model comes supplied with chrome tips as standard. I'd check, but I'm not home at the moment.

AlanL · 05-30-2007, 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Samiad

Thanks Wondermike, that's correct.

I think there might even be something in the Z4 brochure that states that the si model comes supplied with chrome tips as standard. I'd check, but I'm not home at the moment.

I looked in the brochures I got before I ordered mine and didn't see it, but mine did come with them.

Samiad · 05-30-2007, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by AlanL

I looked in the brochures I got before I ordered mine and didn't see it, but mine did come with them.

Bearing in mind that US and UK cars can differ quite a lot when it comes to this sort of thing. We don't get things like "premium package", and our sports pack is different to yours.

AlanL · 05-30-2007, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Samiad

Bearing in mind that US and UK cars can differ quite a lot when it comes to this sort of thing. We don't get things like "premium package", and our sports pack is different to yours.

My initial thought was that it might have come from one of those packages (I have both), but I didn't see it listed as part of either package.

takedown8 · 05-30-2007, 08:22 PM

I'm pretty sure in NA, the si versions include chrome tips whereas the i versions don't (2006 and later). I read it in the specs.

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