Skibum

I can appreciate that.
If you are interested Barkeepers Friend works great on the stock tips.

ADias

But... the soot will still accumulate on the tips. They will still need cleaning to look good.

I find the brushed stainless-steel tips very easy to maintain. Just wipe them weekly with a stainless cleaner or a 3M polishing pad.

TylerCoupe

My dealer had my tips ceramic coated prior to me taking final delivery...I highly recommend it...and have had no issues going on 5 years.

Harvey in FL

Try a metal refinishing shop, can be associated with making of custom hot rods. Also call a powder coating shop and ask them for some help to locate a ceramic shop.

These shops usually do jobs in a batch. The items need to be sand blasted to remove the chrome, ceramic applied, and put in a oven. I had to wait about five days for my tips to be completed.

Edgy01

Thanks, Harvey!

Minok

True, but if your lazy like me and don't want to be cleaning your exhaust tips but once or twice a year, then they will look better if they are black ceramic covered in black soot vs stainless steel covered in black soot.

I am who I am and that isn't likely to change, so I want to get the car working as best I can with the way I maintain it. (which admittedly isn't as well as I'd like to.. .but then I'd also like to be a whole lot thinner).

NA011

After I clean the wheels I run the wheel cleaner solution of the day, brush & rag on both the inside & outside of the tips. The outsides clean right up. By cleaning up the inside the exhaust goo doesn't have as much a chance to build up tar on the inside which then "rolls" out onto the outside of the tip. That's how back in the 70's I keep my '66 VW exhaust tip clean. Make sure the area in back of your car is clear when you start it up because that is some nasty staining stuff.

McCulla

I followed the advice of a post here last spring on my non-S (standard, single tips) and painted them on the cheap. I took them off the car, sanded them with 400 then 600 grit. Cleaned/degreased well. I used high temp primer followed by 3 thin coats of high temp flat black and they look great (to my eye, mind you). We're having a pretty toasty Florida summer and my 30 mile round trip in city stop and go has resulted in no deterioration at all. $20 and 1 hour total time. I have not been on the track, so this is only a DD "test".

mdrums

Yep I agree why waste a lot of money on ceramic coated tips that will also chip off and then you can't fix them with out shipping them back out somewhere.

Hi-Temp exhaust or engine paint looks the same and does a better job....pick flat black, semi-gloss or gloss...your choice and do your prep work.

I did this on my tips 3 years ago and after 22k miles and most of those miles are at Sebring raceway...tips look like I just like new ceramic coat tips...except it only cost me about 1 hr on the weekend and $4 in paint.

tetzlafh

Which shop in OKC (or proximity) are you having the tips done by?

Domer911

Superior Concepts in Edmond is subbing it out. Don't know but will find out who does the coating

tho_991

I have a 2014 991s looking for a aggressive deep exhaust sound, any recommendation?

jhbrennan

Ask here too -
https://rennlist.com/forums/991-221/

slicky rick

i say ay to mike's method... did the same and 4 years down they still look ceramic coated.

2011-sy-carreras

Ceramic coated my PSE tips 2 years ago. pictures attached before and after. The center was already black from the factory and ceramic coated the outside casing of tips. Driven in the summer and winter months in the northeast. Tips still look very good and cleaning is a simple rinsing and drying. No damages to the ceramic coat to date.