Twenty to twenty-five minutes down Broad Street, or we come to you. Cheltenham is a driveway township rather than a kerb-parking one, which makes it the easiest kind of place for the mobile van to work: level ground, room around the car, nobody queued behind us. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted, chip fills $60 to $130, side and back glass $200 to $500. Call 215-608-1108.
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Cheltenham Avenue is the city line, and crossing it changes what happens to a car. On the township side almost every house has a driveway or a garage, so cars are not sitting on a dark public kerb all night, and overnight break-ins are not the dominant problem the way they are on our own blocks. What Cheltenham cars have instead is mileage. These are commuting households with two cars, and those cars spend their lives on Old York Road, on Cheltenham Avenue itself and on the routes down into the city, which means the damage is almost all stone damage collected at speed.
That also makes Cheltenham good van country. A windshield done on a level driveway with room to walk round the car and no traffic passing a foot away is a better job than the same windshield done at a kerb, and it saves you the run into the city entirely. We work 7:30 to 4:00, Monday to Friday, so a mid-morning slot at the house while somebody is home is usually the easiest thing to arrange. If you would rather drive down, the shop is at 3115 Germantown Avenue and it is a straight run. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model and we will confirm the glass and the price before anything is booked.
Cheltenham Avenue runs along the city line and defines the township edge, busy, signalled and lined with retail. Old York Road is the main north-south route through Melrose Park and Elkins Park and on toward Jenkintown, carrying most of the commuting traffic. Ogontz Avenue comes up out of the city and meets it. Limekiln Pike and Washington Lane take the western movement, and Ashbourne Road crosses between them. Away from those roads the township is residential in a way North Philadelphia is not: detached and semi-detached houses, driveways, kerbs without parked cars on them, and mature street trees on roads laid out with grass verges. It is quiet enough that most damage arrives from somewhere else.
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One: commuting stone. The mileage on a Cheltenham car is done on Cheltenham Avenue, Old York Road and the runs into the city, all carrying trucks and buses over patched surfaces, and that is where the chips come from. Two: the temperature swing between a garage and the outside. A car kept warm overnight and taken onto a freezing road puts a sudden differential across the glass, and an existing chip is where that stress concentrates. Three: trees. Verges and mature street trees mean storm limbs, and a limb on a driveway car takes the windshield or the back glass rather than chipping it. Four: gravel and stone drives, which throw material up at the glass every time somebody reverses out.
Come down Ogontz Avenue or Broad Street. From Cheltenham Avenue, pick up Ogontz and run south-east until it meets Broad Street north of Roosevelt Boulevard, then continue south on Broad to Allegheny Avenue. Turn east on Allegheny for about half a mile and Germantown Avenue crosses on the diagonal; we are at 3115, just below Allegheny. Twenty to twenty-five minutes on a normal morning. Old York Road south to Broad is the alternative if Ogontz is heavy. If you would rather not make the trip at all, say so on 215-608-1108 and we will bring the van to the driveway instead.
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Yes, and it is our preferred way to do township work. What makes a driveway job go well is level ground, enough room to open both front doors fully and walk around the car, and somewhere the van can sit without blocking anyone. Weather is the only real constraint, because adhesive work needs the glass dry and the temperature sensible, so a heavy rain day may mean rebooking or bringing the car down to the shop. We will tell you which when we look at the forecast, not when we arrive.
The ranges are the same ranges: $250 to $450 for a fitted windshield, $200 to $500 for side or back glass, $60 to $130 for a chip fill. What varies is the car, the glass it takes and whether it carries a camera or sensors on the screen. You get the number before we book, not after we arrive, and it does not change while the work is happening. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model.
Budget about an hour and a half for a windshield: roughly an hour of work, then safe drive-away time before the urethane will hold the glass in a hard stop, which we quote as a specific figure on the day. A side window is usually quicker, though clearing shattered glass out of the door cavity properly takes longer than people expect. A chip fill is about half an hour and you can stand and watch it happen.
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