Big Toys Customs

About Big Toys Customs

Big Toys Customs states its philosophy without decoration: quality outweighs quantity. The Long Island City studio on 38th Street books fewer cars and spends longer on each — a scheduling choice that shows up in the finished panels and in a 4.9 rating across the Google record that LIC's exacting car owners have built for it. Paint protection film is the headline discipline, and the shop's PPF program is broader than most: clear film for invisible armor, matte film that converts gloss paint to stealth while protecting it, and color PPF — the newer category that changes a car's color and shields it in a single material. Every PPF install carries a ten-year warranty, a term that only makes commercial sense for a shop confident in its surface prep and edge work. The film targets the damage Queens actually inflicts — rock chips off the BQE, careless car-wash brushes, door-edge chips from tight LIC parking — and preserves the factory paint that determines resale. Vinyl wrap work carries the transformation side. The shop frames it plainly: no need for a full paint job — change colors at a fraction of the cost and watch the vehicle transform. Full color changes, finish conversions, and accent work move through the same meticulous-craftsmanship standard the about page promises, with the portfolio — each car, as the site notes, representing one happy customer — as the proof gallery. Ceramic window tint delivers the functional layer: heat rejection that changes summer driving, UV protection for interiors and occupants, and the shade range that lets owners balance style against New York's inspection realities. The supporting menu rounds out a full styling studio — ceramic coating, paint correction for finish restoration before protection, powder coating for wheels, and star-ceiling installs for owners bringing Rolls-Royce ambiance to more attainable cabins. Color PPF earns the studio's newest enthusiasm because it collapses a two-product decision into one: where owners once chose between a color-change wrap (style, modest protection) and clear PPF over paint (protection, no style change), color PPF delivers the finish transformation at protection-film thickness and self-healing performance. The catalog is younger and the price sits above vinyl, which is exactly why the studio insists on in-person samples — the material's depth reads differently on a panel than a phone. For LIC's garage-kept exotics and the daily-driven Teslas alike, it has become the shop's most-consulted question, and the answer changes with how each owner actually uses the car. The location works for the whole city: two blocks off 36th Street's industrial spine in LIC, minutes from the Queensboro Bridge, with Manhattan owners crossing over and Astoria, Sunnyside, and Woodside feeding the local book. Hours run Monday through Friday 9 to 7, Saturdays 10 to 5. The team answers quote requests within 24 hours through the site, and documents builds at @bigtoyscustoms on Instagram and Facebook and @big.toys.customs on TikTok. For owners who treat their cars as the name suggests — big toys deserving serious care — the studio built its reputation on the slow-and-right model, one warrantied panel at a time.