Sap, birds, and spots too good to lose. We work at the curb — keep it.
Four steps. No back-and-forth. No appointments at a shop.
Xentra Auto is a fully mobile detail studio — no shop, no drop-off, no waiting room. We carry the equipment, the water, the power, and the trained hands of a high-end shop straight to your driveway, office, or curb, anywhere in NYC. You hand over the keys; we hand back a flawless car.
Fully-equipped mobile units — not a guy with a bucket.
No hookups needed. We're 100% self-contained.
Home, office, garage, curbside. You don't move the car.
From a hand wash to full ceramic coating and PPF — all on-site.
Professional-grade work, panel by panel.
Xentra Auto brings full-service mobile detailing to Fordham — we come to you, so there’s no shop drop-off and no waiting room. In Fordham the parking is driveways on the hills plus street parking, and your car wears every bit of it. We bring the shop to your block off Fordham Road instead of making you chase one down.
Bus-lane soot, diesel exhaust and Concourse brake dust settle on every car parked around Fordham, and they bond as they weather. A standard wash lifts the loose layer and leaves the part that actually dulls the paint.
The whole menu is available in Fordham, from a quick exterior to a full ceramic install. Most bookings here are owners who park on the street and want the finish reset and then protected against it.
Fordham has its own way of beating up a car. We've seen all of it.
The planted stretches of the Grand Concourse drip sap onto cars parked beneath them from spring. On hot paint it bakes in within days.
Narrow kerb space beside the bus lanes means mirrors and door edges take regular contact. Most of it polishes out; some of it does not.
The Concourse and Fordham Road are treated hard from November. Brine gets thrown up the flanks and settles into the seams for the season.
Real products, real techniques — and the mix that actually comes up around here.
Tree-lined Fordham blocks drip sap and attract birds. Both etch paint if they sit. We remove them and coat the surface. That's the backdrop for the work we do most in Fordham.
Full detail is the bread-and-butter around Fordham — hot-water extraction inside for cars that carry everything, decontamination and machine polish outside for paint that never gets a break.
Interior detailing takes a large share of the bookings here: stain extraction, pet hair removal, odour treatment and leather conditioning on cabins in genuine daily use.
Ceramic coating is the upgrade more families here are adding so the weekly wash gets easier and tree sap & birds stops bonding to the paint.
Everything else is on the table too — scratch repair, headlight restoration, odor removal, tint — all on-location around Fordham Road, the Grand Concourse, Webster Ave.
Around Fordham the cars are working vehicles as often as family ones.
High-mileage Camrys, Siennas and Model 3s in constant service. Cabins need weekly-grade extraction, not a quick vacuum.
RAV4s, Rogues and Equinoxes parked on the Concourse. Bus-lane soot bonds to the lower panels and needs a chemical step.
Altimas and Accords held for years on these blocks. We reset what can be reset and are honest about what cannot.
Fordham clients work with IDA Certified, Gtechniq Accredited, and Gyeon Certified techs. Standard of care doesn't change with the vehicle.
Fordham cars work constantly — Fordham Road shopping, Concourse commuting, family runs — and they park on the street where nothing airs out. Add grit that comes down off the elevated 4 on Jerome Avenue. We reset the whole cabin: all zones vacuumed, carpets and mats hot-water extracted, dash and vents steamed, leather cleaned and conditioned, at the kerb without moving the car.
Cars parked near Jerome Avenue sit under the elevated 4 and collect the steel and brake dust it sheds, which is metallic and embeds in the clear coat. Fordham Road traffic adds oily road film on top. We hand-wash two-bucket with proper lubrication, deep-clean wheels, run an iron decontamination to pull what has bonded, then seal so the next round stays on the surface.
Between shopping bags, school runs and a full winter of salt walked in from the street, Fordham carpets carry a heavy load that vacuuming will not touch. We hot-water extract carpets, floor mats and cloth upholstery to draw salt and ground-in dirt out of the backing, pre-treat and multi-pass set-in staining, then dry it properly.
With no driveway, constant elevated-line fallout and a full salt season, Fordham cars take everything directly onto bare paint and often wait weeks between washes. A coating changes that — rail dust, road film and brine sit on a hard slick layer until you get to them. We correct the paint first, install properly and register the warranty to you.
The Fordham signature is rust-coloured speckling on lighter cars from embedded metal off the elevated line, plus dulling from bonded road film and swirls from washing it off dry. We decontaminate before polishing, inspect under LED, take a test spot, then work in staged passes that genuinely restore depth.
Between Fordham Road traffic and the quick washes along it, keeping a car clean here usually costs you either your parking space or your paint. We come to the kerb instead with our own water and power — two-bucket method, pH-neutral soap, wheels and tyres cleaned, glass streak-free, spray sealant to hold protection.
Cars in constant use and parked outside absorb food, spills and damp, and with the windows up none of it clears. We extract the source out of the carpets and upholstery first, then run ozone or enzyme treatment to neutralise pet, smoke, food and mildew at a level fragrance cannot reach.
Years of open-sky parking leaves Fordham lenses yellowed and scattered, and the light loss shows on the darker cross streets off the Concourse. We wet-sand the oxidation away, polish the lens back to clarity and seal it under UV coating so it stays clear rather than hazing over within a season.
Around Fordham the buses, the traffic and the parked cars all compete for the same street, so we come to you. Our mobile car wash occupies one legal space beside the vehicle and works as a mobile car washing service entirely off its own supply. Diesel soot and bus-lane brake dust settle on everything along the Concourse, and an at-home car wash lifts those chemically before a wash mitt touches paint, then finishes by hand with a rinse that dries clear. The cabin gets a car shampoo service — extraction, not a wipe-down — and a car seat shampoo reaches what a vacuum cannot. Engine bay detailing is available on request.
Call or text (808) 556-7589. Give us the vehicle and your Fordham cross-street. You'll have a fixed number in under an hour — full details start at $350, ceramic coating at $599, a quick exterior at $250. We handle the rest.
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