Yes, it is non-magnetic. My '73 Audi had stainless bumpers.

On 4 Jun 2005 at 20:18, John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Isn't stainless non-magnetic? Wouldn't a magnet stick to chrome plated
> steel and not stailess?
>
> > I didn�t take any orig up to him to
> > compare to and never did get back up there, but he suspected that the orig may
> > not be chromed but a form of stainless stamping like he has seen on quite a
> > few other vehicles from that era.
> >
> > Anybody know of a nondestructive test?
>

Shawn Wright
http://zuiko.sls.bc.ca/~swright
'85 Jetta D
'88 Westy 2.1L, soon to be 1.6TD 5 speed
 (see progress at http://members.shaw.ca/vwdiesels)
'82 Diesel Westy