Eight to ten minutes, about two miles south. Franklinville sits between Hunting Park and Erie Avenue with Roosevelt Boulevard along its northern side, which is why most of the calls we take from here are Boulevard chips: $60 to $130 to fill, about half an hour. A full windshield is $250 to $450 fitted, side and rear glass $200 to $500. We are at 3115 Germantown Avenue, 215-608-1108.
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Franklinville has the park on one side and the Boulevard on the other, and that pairing explains most of the glass work we do here. Hunting Park itself is a proper park with mature trees along Old York Road and Hunting Park Avenue, and the streets around it are among the shadiest in North Philadelphia. Good for the car in August, bad for it in a storm, and worse for it in wiper season, when sap and fine grit get ground across the screen every morning.
Roosevelt Boulevard runs along the top. There is no gentle way to describe what that road does to windshields. It is twelve lanes wide, the surface is patched concrete, it carries constant truck traffic, and vehicles in adjacent lanes travel at very different speeds, so the stone that comes off a tyre arrives with force. A good half of the chips we fill for Franklinville drivers were picked up within a mile of the Broad Street end of the Boulevard. The advice is dull and it is correct: get the chip filled the week you notice it. Half an hour and $60 to $130 beats a full replacement at $250 to $450 and most of a working day. Call 215-608-1108.
Hunting Park Avenue runs along the southern edge of the park and Old York Road along the eastern side, meeting the traffic coming off Roosevelt Boulevard, which forms the northern boundary and begins its run north-east from Broad Street just here. Erie Avenue is the crosstown road below the park and the one most people use to reach Germantown Avenue. Ninth Street and the numbered streets below Broad take the local north-south traffic. The residential blocks are rowhouse and twin, one-way, parked at the kerb, with the streets nearest the park carrying the heaviest tree cover. Everything about the layout points traffic at either the Boulevard or Broad Street, which is where the queues form.
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One: Roosevelt Boulevard, comfortably. Patched concrete, heavy trucks, twelve lanes and a wide spread of speeds is the most reliable stone-chip generator anywhere near this shop, and it is on your doorstep. Two: the park trees. Storm limbs take out windshields and back glass outright, and the year-round sap and seed debris scratch a screen through the wipers, which is where cracks like to start. Three: Erie Avenue and Old York Road grit, the same thing at closer quarters and lower speed. Four: overnight break-ins on the quieter residential blocks, particularly the side streets that back onto the park where nothing overlooks the kerb after dark.
Erie Avenue east to Broad Street, then south. From Broad, take Allegheny Avenue east about half a mile to Germantown Avenue and turn down it; we are on the 3100 block at number 3115. Eight to ten minutes. The tidier version, if you are already at Broad and Erie, is to pick up Germantown Avenue there and follow the diagonal south-east straight to the door, which avoids the Allegheny turn entirely. Coming off the Boulevard, exit at Broad and go south. Call 215-608-1108 with the plate and model first and the glass will be waiting rather than being looked for.
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It can be filled, and that will stop it spreading, but be clear about the cosmetic result: a repair leaves a faint mark you can see if you look for it, and directly in the driver's view some people would rather have new glass. We will tell you honestly what yours will look like before we touch it. A fill is $60 to $130 and half an hour; a replacement is $250 to $450 and a good part of the day, so the decision is worth two minutes on the phone on 215-608-1108.
Yes, and so does the shape. A bullseye or a small star roughly up to the size of a coin, with clean edges and no long legs running out of it, fills well. Long cracks, damage right at the edge of the glass where the screen is under most stress, and old breaks with dirt and water inside them do not. Bring it in and we will tell you which yours is rather than guessing over the phone. If it is repairable, it is done in about half an hour.
Yes. The van covers Franklinville easily and it is the right answer when the screen is too far gone to drive behind, or when a branch has come down on the car overnight. We need somewhere the van can sit beside the vehicle with room to work, which on the streets near the park is usually fine. If the car is drivable, the eight-minute run to the shop is still the better job, because everything is here and the weather is not part of it.
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