Yes! Muriatic acid eats chrome! Store it far away from your car (or anything else made of metal).
We once had a bathroom remodeled, and shortly afterwards I saw that the nice new chrome-plated faucets had gotten all corroded. It turned out that somebody had accidentally used toilet bowl cleaner to clean the sink, and that stuff contained hydrochloric acid. I was astounded that anybody would (or could) sell a household cleaner with hydrochloric acid in it...
Doug
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Originally Posted by ursus
I have seen serious damage done to an old car stored in an enclosed shed along with other stuff, including a gallon jug of muriatic acid (hydrochloric acid). The jug became leaky and the acid fumes ate away the paint and chrome finish on the car Inside, the fabric upolstery was so weaked by the acid fumes that you could poke a hole in it with light finger pressure.
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