Ugly Headers '10 R1200RT

[121581]

Good one Joe !!!! I was suspicious of that 'heat' thing, but after spending the winter in Tucson, I was kinda blaming it on too much bean dip.

[Motodan]

I got my hood open on my 2000 Taurus and my wifes 2007 Saturn and, sure enough, the headers are brown and perhaps a bit rusty. I think I see a pattern, here, because my RT1200 headers are brown. It must be something to do with the heat coming out of the engine at that area.

Wait a minute? Are you saying Ford supplies the headers on R1200RTs? I thought that blue in the Roundel was awfully similair to Ford's oval blue....finally the truth is out. Then may be Yugo is supplying the fuel pump electronics! Now I'm really starting to wonder...Kia the seats, John Deere the handlebars, but who's doing the rear ends? Perhaps a Federal Recovery Project or FEMA or Federal Reserve...got to admit, they're all pretty use to sticking things in rear ends. This was tongue-in-cheek, so just lol and let it go.

[peterbonly]

Along with baby poop brown I have what's left of a melted caliper-mounted LED over my R header. It somehow turned whiteish. Then again, on the GS I picked up one of those styrofoam thingys and it melted into and all over the medial aspect of the L cylinder. Now fairly black after 3 or so years.

It's all BMW's fault or 43...

[deilenberger]

121583,

Please read: http://www.bmwmoa.org/forum/showthread.php?t=46055

[mneblett]

Black? I have never seen one like that, but imagine you have somewhere...

And since my first New BMW which was a 73 1/2 Slash5. I have never seen black headers....

The R65LS came from the factory with black head pipes and mufflers.

[sfarson]

About ten years ago I was really bothered with the brown headers. My dealer had a nice program... give them your headers and they would swap them with a jet hot coated set they always had on hand. Here's what they look like...



Now ten years later I'm kinda used to the brown headers on the R1200RT and hardly even notice them.

[7536]

I wrapped mine in (fibre glass?) hot rod exhaust wrap, then painted it heat resistant silver. It's expensive, about $1.25/ft. and will need to be re-done after 30k or so.

[selyab]

After having my RT about 6 years, I finally decided to try to improve the appearance of the brown pipes. I took very fine, 0000 I think, steel wool and rubbed them clean with no other product. No water was used either. They came back with no scratches or scratches too fine to see. It takes some rubbing but it worked. They will brown again but not very quickly.