XPEL Paint Protection Film in Yonkers, NY

Yonkers is fifteen to twenty-five minutes from us depending on which end you are in, and it is the hardest environment for paint in the whole county. Not because of anything dramatic, but because a Yonkers car does more parkway miles, parks in tighter places and climbs steeper hills than a car anywhere else we serve.

Four parkways

The Saw Mill River Parkway, the Sprain Brook, the Cross County and the Bronx River all run through Yonkers, and the Cross County Parkway interchange is one of the busiest in the region. These are 1920s and 1930s roads: narrow lanes, tight shoulders, stone-faced bridge abutments, and a heavy winter sanding schedule that gets swept up slowly.

From late February into April, following traffic at ordinary spacing on the Saw Mill or the Sprain is a sandblasting exercise. The damage lands in exactly the same places every time — the leading edge of the hood, the mirror backs, the A-pillar bases, the lower bumper and the headlight lenses. A Yonkers commuter car with 25,000 miles on it comes in with a peppered nose as a matter of routine.

Add the Cross County Shopping Center and the Ridge Hill lots, where the damage is door edges and door cups rather than stones, and the Central Park Avenue retail corridor with its constant utility work and loose aggregate.

Hills and street parking

Yonkers is steep. The streets climbing from the Hudson through Park Hill and Ludlow, and the grades around Nodine Hill and Lowerre, are as sharp as anything in the county. Steep driveway aprons and sharp transitions are what tear front lips and lower bumper edges, and on a low car it happens the first week.

And much of the city parks on the street, on narrow roads with high curbs, often overnight. Door edges, door cups, curbed wheels and scraped rockers follow from that.

On the Hudson side — Greystone, JFK Marina, the waterfront developments — add salt-laden air off the river on horizontal panels.

What we fit on Yonkers cars

Full front in XPEL Ultimate Plus, and we mean full: the entire bumper, the entire hood, full fenders, mirrors and headlights. On a car doing this many parkway miles, a partial hood is a false economy, because the line ends up exactly where the stones land. The topcoat is self-healing, so light wash swirls close up in warm weather.

Then front lip and lower bumper coverage for the gradients, rockers and lower doors for the curbs, and door cups and edge guards for street parking and the shopping center lots.

Matte and frozen factory finishes take XPEL STEALTH, since they 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, a ten-year warranty, and it protects the original paint rather than simply covering it.

Correction first

Film locks in whatever is underneath. On a Yonkers car there is almost always something worth removing first — sand etching on the nose, wash marks, water spotting. Every car is decontaminated and inspected under proper lighting before anything goes on.

Because we are a collision repair facility rather than a detail shop, the harder jobs stay in one building. Chips through to primer, a mismatched respray from somewhere else, a front lip worn through on a driveway apron — repaired and repainted here on a cure schedule we control, and filmed afterwards. If a filmed car takes a hit later, we repair the panel and reinstate the film correctly.

Also in Yonkers

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

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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