Re: [St] Cleaning

[brettwilson21@xxxxxxx]

To be honest I cant believe oven cleaner is even a serious suggestion for cleaning a motor vehicle.

As someone else mentioned, unless there is a new kind of oven cleaner that I'm yet to know about, its one of the nastiest, caustic sustances around. If you put it on an "O" ring chain, I'm betting it would eat the rubber rings just as petrol (gas) does as well as do all sorts of nasty things to paintwork and other shiny bits.

Theres lots of good cleaning products around IMHO. I've used Meguiars Quick Clay to clean my polished pipe on my 99 ST when my girlfriends boot melted onto it. As a general rule, I use the gentlest thing first and go from there.

Brett.


-----Original Message-----
From: agate47@xxxxxxx
To: st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 4:49 am
Subject: Re: [St] Cleaning



Regarding?all the comments recently about using oven cleaner on our bikes. I 
cannot remember the source, perhaps some recent tech tips in Cycle World or some 
web page I frequent. However, the source did claim that oven cleaner would be 
good for removing the marks left by a boot heel on a hot muffler. I assume he 
was referring to a stainless steel or chromed muffler. For me that would be the 
limit to such experiments. I agree with most of the posts about keeping that 
stuff away from aluminum and paint.

Steve Knuden
Auburn, WA
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