Bag melted to exhaust - now what?

[SSSNAKE03]

As the title states, I had a plastic bag under my car while driving and it melted to my exhaust pipes. What should I use to get it off? It is caked on there pretty good. I have already tried a very diluted mixture of water and simple green...any other thoughts?

Thanks for any help.

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

sand and polish I'm thinking that his your only option..

 

[SVT2122]

^ That, or you could try full stretch simple green and #000(0) steel wool.

 

[ruthless]

Wire brush on a drill and polish it back up.

 

[Tispho]

go to home depot, buy some lacquer thinner, soak the exhaust in a rag, and scrap it off with a plastic scraper.

 

[gamatt]

go to home depot, buy some lacquer thinner, soak the exhaust in a rag, and scrap it off with a plastic scraper.

And if that doesn't work, same thing with paint stripper. Better yet, first try a razor blade.

 

[murse]

similar thing has happened on my motorcycle, chrome pipes with my rain suit melted on it!!!! I used easy off oven cleaner on it... it worked..

that was when they had 2 kinds, one that needed heat and one that didn't, I used the no heat one, but you have to watch out for Sodium hydroxide, (ie lye) toluene might also be a better choice on chrome.

I don't know if you still can get the non heat one (I did this 5 years ago) but it worked:beer:

 

[spitin venom]

What a crapy place to have the bag melt. I have had 2 bags and a plastic cup melt onto my x pipe. The first time I used a wire brush to clean it off. After it happened again I just let it burn off. It smelled like ass but I figured that nobody would see it on the x pipe. Since yours is on your polished exhaust, you will probably have to repolish that section.

 

[thomas91169]

propane torch and heat the ****er off till it melts and drips off.

itll smell, but almost require 0 effort and you wont have to refinish the pipes.

 

[CAPTAIN JACK]

happened to me, just ignore it, like all things it goes away

 

[thomas91169]

is that how it works?

 

[DSGCOBRA03]

I hit a freshly dead raccoon one night and it scattered under my whole car. I had meat, guts, and fur hanging all over. It reeked for weeks. Then I started smelling a complete different smell. So I looked under my car and there was a plastic bag hanging from my muffler. So now my whole exhaust has either blood or plastic caked on it.

 

[MeetMeAtThePark]

^ thats some bad luck right there man hate to hear that, hopefully it will come off clean

 

[a10secstreetcar]

sand and polish I'm thinking that his your only option..

^ That, or you could try full stretch simple green and #000(0) steel wool.

Wire brush on a drill and polish it back up.

go to home depot, buy some lacquer thinner, soak the exhaust in a rag, and scrap it off with a plastic scraper.

And if that doesn't work, same thing with paint stripper. Better yet, first try a razor blade.

All of these should work just fine...

 

[04GT40TH]

go to home depot, buy some lacquer thinner, soak the exhaust in a rag, and scrap it off with a plastic scraper.

+1

 

[sikryd]

I hit a freshly dead raccoon one night and it scattered under my whole car. I had meat, guts, and fur hanging all over. It reeked for weeks. Then I started smelling a complete different smell. So I looked under my car and there was a plastic bag hanging from my muffler. So now my whole exhaust has either blood or plastic caked on it.

Hahaha... I needed a good laugh, my work day is sucking major horse ***k.

 

[mixxer]

Heat it and most will come off,finish with steelwool

 

[Digital]

Hahaha... I needed a good laugh, my work day is sucking major horse ***k.

the horse dick part really topped that comment off. rofl.

 

[Jefe]

I had a plastic bad melt to one of my cats. Gonna try some of the things posted in here. Its hard as a rock now...

 

[GTIZZL]

This just happened to my x-pipe a couple weeks ago.. If it happened to my cat back I would have been even more pissed.