Ferndale, Michigan · PPF · ceramic · tint · wraps
Protect the car you keep looking back at.
Film in mils, tint in real VLT numbers, gloss in units, prices in plain ranges. Spec the finish yourself in about a minute, before you ever call.
- Paint film
- 7.6 mil installed
- Tint ladder
- 70-5% verified VLT
- Finish menu
- PPF / tint / wraps
- Quote path
- about 60 sec
01 / The threat map
Michigan is not neutral about your paint
Salt, freeway gravel, summer UV, tight downtown parking. Here is what Metro Detroit throws at your paint, and what handles each one.
Oakland and Wayne county roads run white with salt for a third of the year, and it bonds to unprotected paint at the edges and lower panels. Coating chemistry is the counter: salt releases on the rinse instead of sitting through February.
Expansion-joint gravel, construction zones, and winter sand at 70 mph are an impact problem, and impact is film's job. The Front Impact Package covers the bumper, hood, fenders, and mirrors that take the hits.
Lane shifts put you closer to barrier dust and torn-up surface than you would ever choose, and following distance is not always yours to pick. Film on the leading edges takes the sandblasting; the paint underneath stays delivery-fresh.
All-day lot parking on Big Beaver or Woodward bakes paint and interiors. Ceramic tint carries published numbers here: 99 percent UV rejection across the XPEL PRIME XR PLUS line, with total solar energy rejection from 52 to 71 percent by shade.
A July cabin in Metro Detroit is an oven, and the glass is the door. Heat-rejection film changes what you sit down into, and Michigan placement rules decide where the dark shades can go. The configurator shows both honestly.
Structure pillars, door swings, and cart-distance strip lots along the Woodward corridor do slow damage no freeway ever does. Edge film on high-touch panels and a coating that releases scuffs keep city parking survivable.
02 / The live showroom
Try the answers before you spend
Pick a finish, spec your glass, read the gloss, watch a scratch heal. The same tools we would walk you through at the counter, on your screen.
Finish visualizer
See your car in any colorUpload a photo and pick a finish. We keep the car, the angle, and the light, and just change the paint.
PNG, JPG, or WebP. Used once for the preview, never stored.This is a preview to help you pick a direction, not a render of the final install. Final film and color are chosen against physical swatches in the bay. Uploaded photos are used once to make the preview and are not stored.
The showroom tools: a finish visualizer with six pre-rendered finishes on one locked studio scene (a preview to help you pick a direction, not a render of the final install), the tint configurator with the XPEL XR PLUS shade ladder and Michigan guidance, the gloss panel with labeled demo readings, and the self-healing comparison mirroring XPEL's published claim.
03 / The numbers that matter
What actually separates the work
Film thickness, gloss, heat rejection, coating life. The four numbers that tell a real install from a cheap one, straight off the spec sheets.
of urethane between the road and your paint
Source: XPEL ULTIMATE PLUS TDS R2023042890+GUfilm gloss at 60 degrees, mirror-tight
Source: XPEL TDS, ISO 2813 method99%UVrejected across the XR PLUS ceramic tint line
Source: XPEL PRIME spec sheet R05235yearsof coating life on the paint, kept up
Source: Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light product pageThe gloss figure is a sample reading. The film, tint, and coating numbers come straight off the manufacturer spec sheets.
04 / Where to start
We already know the order
The move for a Metro Detroit daily driver, in the order we would run it. Different car, different plan, and the quote flow sorts that out in a minute.
Bumper, hood, fenders, mirrors. A chip through paint is permanent until a respray, so the irreversible panels get protected first.
Front Impact Package →02Tint for the heatCeramic film pays you back every sunny day. Spec your shades in the configurator and we handle the rest.
Ceramic Tint Package →03Coat what remainsWith impact handled, chemistry takes over: salt releases on the rinse, washes get faster, and the gloss holds.
Daily Driver Coating →Want the full reasoning, leases and weekend cars included? Read what Metro Detroit drivers should do first.
05 / The station board
Prices live on the wall here
Seven stations, ranges on the wall, and the reason a job moves inside its range written next to it. The firm number comes after the bay sees the car.
Urethane film over the panels that meet Michigan roads first: bumper, hood, fenders, and mirrors.
$1,895-$2,695ST 02Full Body PPFEvery painted panel under film. The whole-car answer for keepers, lease-end perfectionists, and new deliveries.
$6,995-$9,995ST 03Ceramic CoatingGtechniq chemistry bonded to prepared paint. Gloss you can measure, washes that take half the time.
$995-$1,595ST 04Paint CorrectionMachine polishing measured in passes, not promises. Where every real coating job starts.
Scoped in the bayST 05Window TintCeramic film specced by the numbers: VLT, heat rejection, and the Michigan rules, before you commit.
$349-$549ST 06Vehicle WrapsFull vehicle wraps and accent work in cast vinyl, previewed on a locked studio scene before you commit.
$650-$1,800ST 07Wheel & Glass ProtectionCoating chemistry for the surfaces that take brake dust, road film, and winter spray all year.
$295-$695Quote path · effort, collapsed
Sixty seconds to a real range.
Vehicle, service, package, condition, timing. One tap per question, the honest range on screen before you send a thing, and the final number after the bay sees the car.