Twelve to fifteen minutes across town. Brewerytown sits between Girard Avenue and the park on the Schuylkill side, about three miles from the shop at 3115 Germantown Avenue. A chip fill is $60 to $130 and takes half an hour, a windshield is $250 to $450 fitted, and door, quarter and back glass runs $200 to $500. Open 7:30 to 4:00 weekdays. Call 215-608-1108.
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Brewerytown is being rebuilt block by block and the mix of cars shows it: older cars that have lived on these streets for twenty years parked next to new ones that arrived with the new buildings. What both have in common is that they sleep outside. Off-street parking exists in the newer developments but there is nowhere near enough of it, so most of the neighbourhood is still competing for the same kerb between Twenty-sixth and Thirty-third.
The other constant is Girard Avenue. It is the road everyone here uses and it has trolley rail set into it for the full length, from the bridge over the Schuylkill by the zoo right across to Broad. Steel rail in a road surface does two things to a car: it gives you a hard, repeatable knock every time you cross it at an angle, and it is where the asphalt beside it breaks up first. If you already have a star in your windshield, Girard Avenue is where you find out about it. Getting it filled costs $60 to $130 and takes about half an hour; leaving it costs $250 to $450 and most of a day. Ring 215-608-1108 and we will tell you which one you are looking at.
Girard Avenue is the spine, with the trolley rail in it and the bridge at the western end carrying traffic over the Schuylkill toward the zoo and the expressway ramps. Ridge Avenue clips the north-eastern corner on the diagonal. Thirty-first and Twenty-ninth Streets take the north-south traffic down toward Fairmount, and Twenty-sixth Street runs along the park side. Master Street, Thompson Street and Oxford Street cross the grid between them, mostly one-way with kerb parking on both sides. East Fairmount Park is immediately west, so the streets on that edge carry mature trees and weekend park traffic, while the blocks toward Twenty-sixth carry construction, with a skip, a scaffold or a contractor's pickup on most of them.
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One: the trolley rail and the broken asphalt beside it on Girard Avenue. Crossing steel rail at an angle is a repeated hard shock through the body and the glass, and it is the most common thing that turns a stable chip in a Brewerytown car into a crack. Two: construction grit. There is infill building going on across the neighbourhood, and sand, stone and brick dust end up on the road for the next car to throw. Three: break-ins, weighted toward the darker blocks and the edges of vacant lots rather than the busy stretches near Girard. Four: park-edge trees on the Twenty-sixth Street side, which drop limbs in storms and sap year-round onto whatever is parked beneath them.
Girard Avenue east to Broad Street, then Broad north. From Girard and Broad, run up to Allegheny Avenue, turn right and go about half a mile to Germantown Avenue, then a short way down the Avenue to 3115. Twelve to fifteen minutes without traffic. If Broad is slow, take Ridge Avenue as far as Lehigh Avenue and Lehigh east across Broad to Germantown Avenue, and the Avenue then takes you the rest of the way on the diagonal. Either route, call 215-608-1108 before you set off so we can confirm the glass is in the building rather than on a lorry.
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Tell us the year, make and model when you call and we will tell you exactly what your car carries. A forward-facing camera behind the mirror, a rain sensor, a heated wiper park area and an acoustic interlayer all change which glass goes in, and a camera means the system has to be recalibrated afterwards because it aims through the screen. None of that is a problem, but it is a conversation to have before the old glass comes out, not after. It affects both the price and how long the car is with us.
Usually, if there is a legal space beside the car and room to open a door fully. Brewerytown streets are tight and half of them have a skip or a contractor's truck on them, so what we need to know is where the car is standing and whether we can get the van alongside. If the honest answer is no, the drive over is twelve to fifteen minutes and the shop is indoors, which matters for adhesive work in bad weather.
There is an hour or so of work, and then a safe drive-away time while the urethane cures enough to hold the glass if the car stops hard. That figure depends on the adhesive and the weather, and we give you the real number on the day rather than a round one. It is why we would rather you dropped the car in the morning than at half three. We close at 4:00 and we are shut at the weekend.
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