Fifteen to twenty minutes, and you never have to leave one road. Germantown Avenue runs from Chelten straight down to our door at number 3115, about four miles. Chip fills are $60 to $130 and take half an hour. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted. Side, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500, most of it same day. The shop runs 7:30 to 4:00, Monday through Friday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Germantown is one of the few parts of the city where a lot of cars have somewhere off the street to sit, a driveway beside a twin or a spot behind the house off the back alley, and it changes what we see. Fewer overnight break-ins than the blocks below Lehigh, and more damage that came from the road itself. The road in question is usually Germantown Avenue. It is the oldest route in the neighbourhood and it still has the old trolley rail and the block paving in it, sometimes under a skim of asphalt and sometimes not, so a car doing the length of it from Chelten down to Wayne Junction takes a steady beating through the suspension and the glass.
The other half is the topography and the trees. Germantown falls away toward the Wissahickon, the side streets are steeper than they look, and the tree cover on roads like Wayne Avenue is heavy enough that something comes down in every storm. A branch on a parked car usually means a windshield or a back glass, and a back glass on a hatchback is a genuinely miserable thing to leave taped up. Ring us with the plate and the model and we will tell you what is on the shelf. It is one straight road down to the shop, no expressway and no bridge.
Chelten Avenue is the crosstown road, running from Wissahickon Avenue across Germantown Avenue and out east. Germantown Avenue itself carries the neighbourhood from Mount Airy down to Wayne Junction on the diagonal, with old rail set into it and block paving breaking through where the asphalt has worn. Wayne Avenue and Wissahickon Avenue run parallel on the west side and take the through traffic the Avenue cannot. Lincoln Drive drops away into the park with blind curves, overhanging trees and a surface that stays wet under the canopy long after the rest of the neighbourhood has dried. Queen Lane and School House Lane climb across the grain of the hill. Parking is a mix: driveways and back alleys on the residential streets, kerb only along the Avenue and around Vernon Park.
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One: the Avenue itself. Old rail and block paving under a thin, patched surface means a repeated hard knock at the same point in the wheel, and glass that already has a star in it does not survive that treatment for long. Two: falling timber. Wayne Avenue, Lincoln Drive and the streets along the park edge are heavily wooded, and every real storm puts limbs on parked cars, taking out windshields and back glass rather than chipping them. Three: the hills. Reversing out of a sloped driveway or parking across the fall of a street on Queen Lane is how quarter glass and mirror glass meet a gatepost. Four: sap, grit and winter. Cars under trees get filmed in sap and pollen, drivers run dry wipers over it, and the fine scratching that leaves turns a stone strike into a crack that spreads faster than it should.
One road. Germantown Avenue from Chelten Avenue heads south-east through Wayne Junction, past Hunting Park Avenue and the Erie Avenue crossing at Broad, and we are at 3115 just after Allegheny Avenue, about four miles all in. It is not a fast four miles, because the lights are close together and the surface is what it is, so allow fifteen to twenty minutes. If the Avenue is blocked, Wayne Avenue down to Roberts and across to Broad, then Broad south to Allegheny and east, gets you here just as well. The 23 bus runs the same route if you are dropping the car and heading back up. Call 215-608-1108 first.
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It is not ideal, and that is worth knowing before you set off. The Avenue has old rail and block paving under the surface, and every one of those seams flexes the glass. A crack already across the screen can grow another few inches on a four-mile run. If the damage is fresh and small, put clear tape over it to keep dirt out and drive slowly in the right-hand wheel track. If the screen is badly gone, ring 215-608-1108 and we will bring the van up instead.
Both work, and the driveways up here are what make the van practical. If there is a driveway, a back alley spot or an off-street space with room to open the doors fully, we can do the job at the house. Where it does not work is a windshield in freezing rain on the Avenue with traffic passing a foot away. Tell us where the car is standing and we will tell you honestly which is better.
About an hour of work, plus the safe drive-away time the urethane needs before it will hold the glass in a hard stop. We give you a specific figure on the day rather than a slogan. Practically, a Germantown car dropped at half seven in the morning is usually ready by early afternoon. We are open 7:30 to 4:00 Monday to Friday and closed weekends, so plan the drop for a weekday.
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