Twenty-five minutes down Old York Road, or the van comes to the house. Elkins Park sits about seven miles north of the shop and almost every job we do there is done on a driveway rather than at a kerb. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted, chip fills $60 to $130 and about half an hour, side and back glass $200 to $500. We are at 3115 Germantown Avenue. Call 215-608-1108.
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Elkins Park is a train suburb, and the shape of the day here has not really changed since it was built. The car goes to the station in the morning, sits in a lot or a driveway until the evening, and does the school and shopping runs in between. That means very little of what damages an Elkins Park windshield happens in Elkins Park. It happens on Old York Road, on the way down into the city, or on the highways further out, and it comes home as a chip nobody notices for a fortnight.
The second feature is the tree cover, which is heavy and old. Streets around Church Road and Ashbourne Road have full canopies, and a car parked under one collects sap, seed and fine debris all year. Wipers grind that across the screen and the fine scoring it leaves is exactly where a stone strike prefers to turn into a crack. It also means storm damage, and a limb through a windshield or a back glass is not a repair conversation, it is a replacement one. Because nearly every house here has a driveway, the van does most of this work at the address, and it is a better job on level ground with room to move than it would be on any city street. 215-608-1108, weekdays 7:30 to 4:00.
Old York Road runs through the middle as the main artery, four lanes in places, with the retail, the traffic and the buses on it. Church Road crosses it east to west and Ashbourne Road runs roughly parallel below, both narrower, wooded and lined with houses set back behind lawns. The regional rail line cuts through with Elkins Park station beside it, so the streets around the station fill with commuter cars in the morning and empty again at night. The residential roads curve rather than run in a grid, they have grass verges and mature street trees, and the driveways are proper driveways. A van can sit on most of them without blocking the road, which is the single thing that makes mobile work easy here.
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One: stone collected elsewhere. Almost every chip we fill on an Elkins Park car was picked up on Old York Road, on the run into the city or on a highway further out, because the neighbourhood itself is too quiet to break glass. Two: falling timber and tree debris. The canopy over Church Road, Ashbourne Road and the residential streets means limbs in storms and sap, seed and grit on the glass the rest of the year. Three: the wiper cycle that follows, because dry wipers dragged over that debris scratch a fine track across the screen and stone damage sitting in a scratched area spreads sooner. Four: the garage-to-frost temperature jump on winter mornings, which is what actually finishes off a chip that has been sitting quietly since September.
Old York Road south, most of the way. Follow it through Melrose Park, across Cheltenham Avenue into the city, and stay with it past Hunting Park until it feeds you onto Broad Street. Continue south on Broad past Erie Avenue to Allegheny Avenue, turn east, go about half a mile, and Germantown Avenue crosses on the diagonal. We are at 3115, just below the junction. Twenty-five minutes without traffic and more at the school run. If Old York Road is heavy, cutting across to Ogontz Avenue and coming down that way avoids the worst of it. Or leave the car at home, ring 215-608-1108 and let the van come to you.
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Yes, provided we can get in and out without anyone needing to move the car and there is somewhere sensible to leave the keys. Most Elkins Park driveways are ideal for it. What we need from you is the year, make and model, a note of any camera or sensor on the screen, and a way to reach you if we find something unexpected once the trim is off. The car should not be moved until the safe drive-away time we quote has passed, and we will tell you exactly when it is fine to use.
No. Impact damage from a falling limb is not a chip: the glass is usually cracked across, often in more than one direction, and the laminate may be torn where the branch landed. That is a replacement at $250 to $450 fitted, and it needs doing rather than taping. Do not drive it any distance with a screen in that state, because the windshield is structural and a compromised one contributes very little in a hard stop. Call 215-608-1108 and we will come to the house.
Yes, but they change which piece of glass your car takes, so we need the details up front. A rain and light sensor behind the mirror, a heated wiper park area, an acoustic interlayer, a camera for lane keeping or automatic braking, each of those is a different part number, and a camera also means recalibration after fitting because the system aims through the screen. Tell us the year, make and model when you call and we will confirm what yours needs before we order anything.
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