XPEL Paint Protection Film in Harrison and Purchase, NY

Harrison and Purchase are about eighteen minutes from us, and between them they produce two completely different kinds of film customer. Downtown Harrison is a dense village with street parking and a busy Metro-North station. Purchase is two-acre zoning, long wooded driveways and the corporate campuses along Anderson Hill Road. The cars and the damage are not the same.

Purchase: driveways, trees and the airport

Long private drives. Many Purchase properties have several hundred feet of driveway, frequently with a pea-gravel or crushed-stone apron and a Belgian block edge. Every trip in and out throws stone at the lower bumper, the rocker panels and the rear quarters. This is the most under-appreciated source of damage on a Purchase car, because it happens at five miles an hour and nobody notices it until it has happened a thousand times.

Tree canopy. Heavy mature cover means sap on hoods and roofs from spring through autumn, plus bird activity. Both are acidic and both etch clearcoat given time. Film does not stop that; ceramic coating over the film gives you a slick surface that buys time to get it off.

Westchester County Airport. A meaningful number of Purchase and Rye Brook cars spend days at a time in long-stay parking. Outdoors, under trees, in a lot with a lot of movement. That is both a chemical exposure and a door-ding exposure.

The corporate campuses. PepsiCo, Mastercard and the Anderson Hill Road offices mean large surface lots and structured decks, which means door edges and door cups.

Harrison village: street parking and the Hutch

Downtown Harrison parks on the street, on narrow roads with high curbs, near a station lot that fills early. Door edges, door cups and curbed rockers, plus the usual station-lot sap problem.

And the Hutchinson River Parkway runs straight through, with the Lincoln Avenue and Westchester Avenue ramps feeding onto it. The Hutch is a 1920s road — narrow lanes, tight shoulders, stone bridge abutments, heavy winter sanding that gets swept up slowly. From February to April it sandblasts the nose of anything following at ordinary spacing. That damage lands on the leading hood edge, the mirror backs and the lower bumper.

What we fit

Full front in XPEL Ultimate Plus is the baseline for either side of the town — complete bumper, complete hood, full fenders, mirrors and headlights, no line across the hood, self-healing topcoat.

For a Purchase car we add rockers, lower doors and rear wheel arches, because of the driveway, and we treat ceramic coating on the hood and roof as part of the job rather than an extra. For a village car we add door cups and door edges first.

Matte and frozen factory finishes take XPEL STEALTH, since that paint cannot be polished once marked. Color change is done as XPEL COLOR film rather than vinyl — eight mil, self-healing, sixteen gloss and satin finishes, ten-year warranty, and it protects the paint underneath instead of covering it.

Correction first

Film seals in whatever is under it. Sap etching and wash marks are both common on cars from this area, and both should be corrected before anything is applied. We inspect under proper lighting and say honestly what the paint needs.

As a collision repair facility we can handle the cases a detail shop cannot: a chip through to primer, a bumper resprayed elsewhere that does not match, a panel that needs repainting before film. It happens here, on a cure schedule we control. And if a filmed car takes a hit later, we repair the panel and reinstate the film properly.

Also in Harrison and Purchase

We handle collision repair for Harrison and Purchase, with factory certifications for Land Rover, Jaguar, Rivian, Genesis, Infiniti, Nissan, Kia and Stellantis, and we repair every other premium marque in the area.

Booking it

Send photos and tell us what you drive, where it lives and how you use it, or just bring it down. We will tell you what we would cover on your car and what we would leave alone. There is no benefit to us in selling you film you do not need.

Enthusiast Auto Works, 55B Plain Ave, New Rochelle, NY 10801. (914) 630-1668. We are an XPEL Certified Installer and a full collision repair facility, and we repair exclusively with OEM parts.

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