Lorenzo Tint & PPF

About Lorenzo Tint & PPF

Lorenzo Tint & PPF has been fitting film in the Bronx since 1989, which makes the Bronx Boulevard shop one of the oldest continuously running film operations in the city. It describes itself as an independent company specialising in paint protection film, window tinting, paint correction, and clear bras, and it serves the Bronx, Yonkers, Manhattan, Westchester, and the wider New York area from the Wakefield end of the borough. XPEL is the film the shop builds on, and the range it works across says something about the scope. XPEL's paint protection products go onto cars, trucks, motorcycles, and boats, and Lorenzo fits all of them, with XPEL Fusion Plus ceramic coating available over the top for owners who want the chemical layer as well as the physical one. Paintless dent repair has been added to the list, which means a car can arrive with a crease and a chipped nose and leave with neither. What almost four decades on one block actually buys is the thing the shop calls its hybrid installation technique, and it is worth explaining. Film installation splits broadly into two schools. Bulk installers cut the pattern by hand on the car, which allows a tighter wrapped edge but puts a blade near the paint. Plotter installers use a digital pattern cut from a database, which is safer and repeatable but leaves relief lines exactly where the software says rather than where the panel wants them. A shop that has done both for decades stops treating that as a religious argument and starts choosing per panel: pattern for the flat expanse where repeatability wins, hand-finishing for the compound curve where a computer's guess at a bumper's radius does not survive contact with the actual bumper. That judgement is not a product a supplier can sell; it accumulates. A clear bra remains the most misunderstood purchase on the menu. It is not a bra and it is not a strip, and modern film is not the thick yellowing plastic that gave the name its bad reputation in the nineties. It is optically clear urethane that follows a panel's shape, and its job is to take the stone the Bronx River Parkway throws so the paint underneath never learns about it. Motorcycles are the application that proves the point. A bike has almost no flat surface worth the name: tanks are compound curves in every direction, fairings are moulded shells whose edges terminate in mid-air rather than tucking behind a panel gap, and there is nowhere to hide a relief cut. Film on a bike gets judged from eighteen inches away by an owner who has spent a decade looking at it. A shop that takes the work is telling you something about its edges. Doors are open six days a week, 8 until 6, with quotes taken through a fast-track web form or on (718) 994-9100, and the @lorenzotint feed documents the work. The Bronx Boulevard location sits minutes from the Yonkers line and the Bronx River Parkway, which is exactly the road its customers need the film for.