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Our recent review of Blue Away motorcycle exhaust blue remover brought several emails from webBikeWorld visitors, all recommending Blue Job chrome polish as an alternative.

We quickly ordered a container and came to the realization yet again that it's better not to be too obsessed with removing that blue color on your bike's exhaust pipes. 

This stuff is expensive!  $11.95 plus $4.00 shipping for a 0.5 ounce (that's a miniscule 14 grams) container.

Which also gives us yet one more reason to like our Triumph Tiger hack bike -- the Tiger's exhaust pipes are not chrome plated! 

We're probably asking too much by trying to restore the nearly twenty-year-old BMW R65's exhaust pipes; over the years they've become stained and scratched and have way more problems than a simple blue sheen.

But Rick has dreams of showing the Beemer next year during its twentieth birthday, so we've been experimenting with various ointments and restoratives to see how much of its youth and vigor can be brought back for the judges.

The R65's pipes do have a mottled coat of blue, starting right at the exhaust nut on the front of each cylinder and extending down around underneath the bike.  The Blue Away product we tried just a couple of weeks ago seemed to have no effect at all on the exhaust.  Blue Away is a blue creamy liquid substance that's applied just like a paint polish or wax.

Blue Job is quite different; it's a white odorless powder.  The directions call for mixing it into a paste with a little bit of water and spreading it on the exhaust pipe.  Where the Blue Away product had a gritty feel, Blue Job seems to do its stuff with some type of chemical reaction. 

I had a tiny open cut on my finger and the mixture stings, so I'd guess that has some type of acid, but the company claims that the formula has a "balanced pH" that can be used by people with chemical sensitivities. 

The mixture quickly turns to a white liquid as it's being rubbed on the pipe, and the blue color on the exhaust does seem to disappear without much fuss.

The Blue Job package claims that it will remove "the exhaust pipe blues, burnt on shoe rubber, golds [sic], rust and fingerprints".  Does anyone know what "golds" are??

Unfortunately, although Blue Job claims to remove "bluing or discoloration and surface rust", it did not remove the brownish stains and other baked in and caked on dirt on the R65's vintage pipes. 

Blue Job carries a "100% guarantee" by the company, who states that they offer a "100% refund of purchase price, if not completely satisfied".

It's not easy to take a photograph of something as shiny as chrome under lights, especially with the limited exposure range of a digital camera.  Even the R65's old pipes have too much shine left for the camera to fully capture the differences in coloration.

So we couldn't get a good before/after photo, but the line that delineates the sections that were untreated and treated with Blue Job on the exhaust pipe in the photos below are readily apparent.