Fairfax and Chantilly dealers · New-car delivery
NEW-CAR PPF FOR FAIRFAX AND CHANTILLY DELIVERIES
Route 50 from Fair Oaks out to Chantilly is the longest dealer strip in Fairfax County, with mainstream and luxury franchises on both sides of the highway and more around the Fair Oaks interchange with I-66 and the Fairfax County Parkway. It is also a heavy truck road, with gravel at every construction entrance and a steady stream of landscaping trailers and dump trucks. A new car bought here takes its first stones on the way out of the lot, and the hood edge and bumper on the cars that wait a season to see us prove it. The fix is to film the front before the first commute.
This is the page for anyone taking delivery on Route 50 or at Fair Oaks this week. Our shop is in Chantilly too, at 4215 Walney Rd off Route 28, so the drive is ten to fifteen minutes and a same-week install is easy to arrange. Below is how to time it, what to ask the finance office about their protection package before you sign, how a specialist install differs, and what each of the three STEK DYNOshield packages covers on a car that has never seen a highway.
From the Route 50 and Fair Oaks dealers, drive west on Route 50 to Route 28 north and follow it to Walney Road; depending on where you start it takes 10 to 15 minutes to reach our Chantilly shop.
Why the front end
WHAT FAIRFAX AND CHANTILLY DEALERS DOES TO YOUR PAINT
Route 50 itself
Lee Jackson Memorial Highway between Fair Oaks and Chantilly is six lanes of commuters, delivery trucks, and landscaping trailers, with construction entrances tracking gravel into the right lane. The bumper of a car bought here is hit before it is registered.
I-66 and the Parkway from Fair Oaks
The Fair Oaks interchange puts you straight onto I-66 or the Fairfax County Parkway, both of which have seen years of widening and carry trucks at 65 mph. Stones at that speed land on the hood edge and mirrors.
Fair Oaks and Fairfax Corner parking
The mall and shopping center lots around Fair Oaks are where new cars collect their first door dings and cart scrapes. Door edges and cups are the usual casualties, and the extended package exists for cars that spend weekends there.
The shortest window to perfect paint
A car driven ten minutes from the dealer to us arrives with no chips, no swirls, and nothing to correct. Film over factory-fresh paint is the ideal case, and in Chantilly the dealers are close enough that this is the normal case rather than the exception.
How it works for you
DROP-OFF, TIMING, AND PAYING
DROP-OFF AND PICKUP ACROSS TOWN
With the dealers this close, most customers bring the car the morning after delivery at 9 AM and pick it up the same afternoon. If your delivery is early in the day, let us know and the car can often come in the same afternoon for a next-day pickup.
DELIVERY WEEK AND WHAT TO ASK THE FINANCE OFFICE
Before you sign, ask what the protection package consists of, who applies it, and what the warranty excludes; the answer is often a sealant or a partial film installed by a vendor rather than the dealer. Then tell the salesperson you have a film appointment booked and to deliver the car unwashed or hand-washed. Give us the date and we hold a day that week.
DEPOSIT AND PAYMENT PLANS
Reserving your day takes a 20% deposit, fully refundable, that comes off the total. The rest is paid after you inspect the car with us under the lights at pickup. If you have just signed a car loan and would rather spread this out, Klarna, Afterpay, and Affirm are available.
Three packages
WHAT EACH PACKAGE COVERS
Partial Front
High-impact zones only · Half a day
Bumper, the first 18 inches of the hood, fender edges, and mirrors, in about half a day. It handles Route 50's bumper hits and leaves a film line partway up the hood that shows on anything darker than silver.
- Full front bumper
- Leading 18" of the hood
- Leading edge of both fenders
- Side mirrors
Full Front
What most drivers choose · One day
Full hood, bumper, both fenders, mirrors, headlights, and A-pillars with no line on the hood. The package we recommend for a new car bought on Route 50, and a one-day install.
- Full hood
- Full front bumper
- Both full fenders
- Side mirrors
- Headlights
- A-pillars
Full Front Extended
Front end plus the wear areas · One to two days
Full front plus the rockers, door edges, and door cups. For the SUVs and trucks that will spend weekends in Fair Oaks parking lots and weekdays on the Parkway.
- Everything in Full Front
- Rocker panels
- Door edges and door cups
- Door strips
- A-pillars (halfway)
Pricing depends on the vehicle and the coverage you pick. What sets a PPF quote, or request yours and we reply with an exact number.
Watch
BEFORE YOU BOOK
The 3-Step Prep Before PPF
A rare Mustang GT California Special goes through the prep every car gets before film: masking the trim, a paint enhancement pass, and the alcohol wipe that makes the film bond.
Where Rock Chips Actually Land
A walk through the body shop showing why the hood, fenders, bumper, and headlights take the hits, and why full front PPF covers exactly those panels.
Questions
FAIRFAX AND CHANTILLY DEALERS PPF QUESTIONS
If your delivery is in the morning and the schedule has room, yes; tell us the appointment time when you request the quote and we will try. Otherwise the next morning at 9 AM is the standard plan, with a full front ready by late afternoon. Either way the car sees ten minutes of road before film goes on.
Ask what the lifetime warranty covers and excludes, and who honors it. STEK DYNOshield carries a 12-year manufacturer warranty against yellowing, cracking, peeling, and delamination, backed by the film maker rather than a dealer group, and we are the shop that installed it if anything ever needs a look.
Three things: no brush wash before delivery, no dealer-applied sealant or film, and leave the front license plate bracket off so we can film the bumper first and mount it afterward. If they have already applied a sealant, do not worry; we strip it from the panels we film during the decontamination wash.
Full front extended. Trucks ride high, so the hood and bumper face the airstream directly, and the rockers and door edges take the gravel kicked up by their own front tires. Extended covers all of it, and on a truck the install is one to two days depending on the size of the panels.
On a clean install, no. DYNOshield is optically clear with no texture, so the only visible change is a slightly deeper gloss. Edges are wrapped under the hood lip and into the fender gaps rather than cut on the panel face, which is the detail that separates an invisible install from one you can find.
WHAT DRIVERS NEAR FAIRFAX AND CHANTILLY DEALERS SAY ABOUT OUR PPF
"Communicated very well in informing me about their PPF and ceramic coating offers. My truck was ready at our scheduled pickup time and they did a great job."
PPF + Ceramic Coatingvon rob
"I highly recommend these guys! They did an excellent job on both the front end PPF installation and the two front window tints. The attention to detail they put into their work is awesome, and everything looks flawless. On top of the great quality, the staff is incredibly friendly and very flexible with scheduling. If you're looking for professional work and great customer service, this is the place to go. Highly recommended!"
PPF + Window TintYoungsu Kim
"Great people to deal with. Owner was very transparent with all their services and they offer payment plans. I got the front half of my car PPF'd and back half ceramic coated (one of the packages they offered) and has been raining for a few days on an off. You cant even tell it rained. The PPF and ceramic coat works as intended."
PPF + Ceramic CoatingPaolo Miclat
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FILM IT BEFORE THE FIRST CHIP
Tell us the car and the week you want it done. Written quote the same business day, full front on in one day at our Chantilly shop.