Twenty-five minutes over the Ben Franklin Bridge, or the van crosses to you. Camden is about seven miles from the shop at 3115 Germantown Avenue and the bridge is most of the journey. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted, side and back glass $200 to $500, chip fills $60 to $130 and half an hour. We are open 7:30 to 4:00 Monday to Friday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Camden drivers cross a bridge more often than most people cross a street, and the bridge is where a lot of the damage finishes. The Ben Franklin has an expansion joint every few yards, a steel deck and long approaches on patched concrete at either end, and a car that crosses it twice a day is being shaken in a way ordinary roads do not shake it. Chips picked up anywhere at all get finished off on that crossing. It is the most common story we hear from this side of the river: a star that had been sitting quietly for months turned into a crack somewhere between the toll plaza and the Vine Street ramp.
The second thing is that Camden parks outside, mostly at the kerb, on streets where the housing is dense and the lighting is uneven, so broken side windows are a regular call too. We do both, and because you are across a state line it is worth being clear about how it works. The van will cross the bridge to you if the car is not safe to move. If it is drivable, the shop is twenty-five minutes away with everything to hand. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model and you will have a price before you decide which.
The bridge lands on Admiral Wilson Boulevard and Route 30, which is the road most people use to get in and out and which carries heavy traffic over a surface that has been patched for decades. Broadway runs north to south through the city and Federal Street crosses it, both busy, both signalled, both lined with parked cars. Mickle Boulevard and Martin Luther King Boulevard take traffic through the downtown blocks toward the waterfront. Off the main roads the residential streets are narrow, parked on both sides and one-way in places, with a mix of rowhouse blocks and open ground where buildings have gone. Between the bridge approaches, the port traffic and the rail crossings, this is a city that puts a lot of heavy vehicles on ordinary streets.
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One: the bridge and its approaches. Expansion joints, deck plates and patched concrete on Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Vine Street ramps flex a windshield repeatedly, which is what turns a stable chip into a crack, and the trucks using the crossing throw stone the whole way over. Two: port and industrial traffic, with loaded lorries on ordinary city streets putting grit and stone up at windshield height. Three: overnight break-ins on dense residential blocks, weighted to the darker stretches and the edges of vacant ground. Four: the crossing done twice a day in winter, when a cold screen, a hot defroster and a deck full of joints all work on the same piece of damage at once.
Take the Ben Franklin Bridge into Philadelphia and stay with the traffic onto the Vine Street Expressway heading west. Come off at Broad Street and head north, which is a long straight run up through the city past Girard Avenue and Lehigh Avenue to Allegheny Avenue. Turn east on Allegheny for about half a mile until Germantown Avenue cuts across on the diagonal, then a short way down the Avenue to 3115. Twenty-five minutes outside the peaks, longer on a Friday afternoon. If the car has a window out and you would rather not take it across the bridge, call 215-608-1108 and the van will come over instead.
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Yes, the van crosses the bridge, and the case where it clearly makes sense is a car that should not be driven: a screen you cannot see through, a window that will not stay up, glass across the driver's seat. What we need is a legal place to work beside the car with room to open a door fully. Tell us the address and the vehicle on 215-608-1108 and we will give you a time and a price before we set off, not after we arrive.
Because that is exactly the condition glass hates. A windshield is bonded to the body and flexes with it, and a deck with an expansion joint every few yards flexes the shell continuously, so every one of those movements works at the tip of the break. Add a cold morning and a hot defroster and the crack has everything it needs. Fill it early, $60 to $130 and about half an hour, and there is nothing left for the bridge to pull on.
If the car is safe to drive, usually yes, and mostly because of stock and weather. Everything we have is at the shop, the bay is indoors, and if the job turns out to need a part we did not expect it is here rather than an hour away. Twenty-five minutes each way against a job done properly first time is a fair trade. If the car is not safe, do not make that trade. Call and let us come to you.
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