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Old 09-18-2008, 09:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Burned Shopping Bag Stuck On Exhaust..Need Help.

Anyone of you 8th member know how to clean the burned plastic bag that is stuck on my exhaust? it been smelling like plastic 2 days already im getting pretty annoyed of that smell. so if anyone been through this before, share you solution, also it melted down pretty bad.
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:15 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Ouch, that really sucks... Have you taken the exhaust off?
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:19 PM   #4 (permalink)
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This happens a lot with motorcycles, so I have some experience.

You can do two things.

The first is nothing and just let it burn off, which may take some time.

The second is to use spray oven cleaner, the nasty kind that you don't want to get on your skin.

If you opt for the oven cleaner, be really careful you don't spray it on anything else other than the exhaust because it's very corrosive. It will very effectively remove that burnt plastic, however.

Someone else also stated that a paint scraper with the car running could work... just don't touch the exhaust.

what I found on another forum... Try the oven cleaner... gonna have the smell for a while it seems.
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Lick it off. Works good.
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:23 PM   #6 (permalink)
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lick it??? whoa lol, and I thought burning my tounge on coffee is bad!
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:30 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Lol soup is worse.
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:51 PM   #8 (permalink)
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try fried cheekin.
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:57 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Coffee straight outta the pot hurts like fried oil.
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Old 09-18-2008, 10:59 PM   #10 (permalink)
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It will eventually stop smelling in a few weeks.
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Old 09-18-2008, 11:25 PM   #11 (permalink)
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lol bag on exhaust we gotta see pic!
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Old 09-18-2008, 11:59 PM   #12 (permalink)
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it too late for pic now all you see is a big old burn spot not technically on the exhaust but on the pipe next to the exhaust. So basically you can only see it when you get down and look at it. Then again the smell has been there for 2days now.
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Old 09-19-2008, 12:03 AM   #13 (permalink)
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how does this happen?
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Old 09-19-2008, 02:28 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Old 10-25-2008, 02:02 PM   #15 (permalink)
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got the same problem . did it all burn off eventually?? i tried scrapin it off but its as hard as a rock, even after applying water to it. I'll put up pics when my battery charges up on my camera.
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Don't post pics because it'll be way too funny, but messed up most of all...
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try threating to kill its family. should go away.,
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Old 10-27-2008, 03:10 AM   #18 (permalink)
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that happened to my exhaust i bought it used and it has a big plastic thing on it! i got boiling hot water (like 3 big ass bowls of it
) and poured it on slowly when it got hot enough i just used a scraper and it came off in 5 minutes. ur option could be to turn your car on leave it on for a few and wait till it gets hot enough to scrape the plastic off after you jack up the car.
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Old 10-27-2008, 04:50 AM   #19 (permalink)
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oh man this EXACT same thing happened to me. i just let it burn off, took about a weeks worth of driving to work and back. the smell bugged me so much tho lol get a nice air freshner to mask it temporarily
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damn that sucks. hope everything goes well
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