The studio is at 361 NJ-17 in Hackensack, and the Palisades towns are closer than most of their residents assume. Measured straight from the studio to each town centre: Fort Lee 5.3 miles, Edgewater 6.0, Englewood Cliffs 6.3, Tenafly 6.6, Cresskill 7.1, Demarest 7.8, Closter 8.6, Norwood 9.9, Alpine 10.0. The road is Route 4 west from the bridge to Route 17, or the Palisades Parkway down to the same junction. Manhattan is 8.6 miles through the Lincoln Tunnel, which is why the first review on this site, from the owner of two Maybachs, describes the studio as minutes from the city.
What comes down from these towns is the reason the gallery on this site looks the way it does: a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, two Ferrari SF90s, a Lamborghini Revuelto, a Range Rover with a factory gloss-black finish that its owner wanted in satin. They share one problem. A car garaged in Alpine or Tenafly still commutes down 9W and Route 4 behind the same gravel trucks and landscaping trailers as everyone else, and a stone that would be a blemish on a grey Camry is a visible chip in black Porsche paint. The front of the car takes nearly all of it — bumper, the leading edge of the hood, the fenders, the mirrors and the headlights.
That is why the Front End Protection package, at $2,399, is the answer for most daily-driven cars from this side of the county: full bumper, full hood, full fenders, mirrors and lights, in self-healing film. It is not the cheapest way to cover the hood, which is a partial strip with a visible line across the paint; it is the full panel, so there is no line to see.
The Highway & Track Package, at $3,199, adds the rocker panels, the A-pillars, the leading edge of the roof and the rear wheel arches. It is the right coverage for a low car — the GT3 RS, a Huracán — and for anything that spends its weekends on the Parkway or at Lime Rock, because the rockers and the rear arches take the tyre spray that the front end never sees.
Full Body Armor, at $6,499, covers every painted panel. It is the usual choice for a car that will be kept, for anything in a factory matte or satin finish that cannot be spot-resprayed, and for the owner who has already paid once for a respray that did not match. On a gloss car, a satin-finish film over the factory paint gives the matte look without the matte paint, which is what the Range Rover in the reviews had done.
The process does not change with the postcode. Every panel pattern is cut from the vehicle's own scan data with HAUT Precision Scan, so no blade touches the paint; edges are wrapped rather than trimmed on the face of the panel; the car is decontaminated and corrected before any film goes on; and it stays in a climate-controlled bay for the 24 to 48 hours the film takes to bond. A full car is three to five business days. The film carries a ten-year manufacturer warranty, registered to the vehicle.
The studio is open Monday to Friday 9 to 6 and Saturday 9 to 4. Bring the car as it is — the wash and decontamination are part of the job, and a freshly waxed car makes the first step longer, not shorter.