Twenty-five to thirty minutes down Old York Road, or the van comes to the driveway. Jenkintown is about eight miles north of the shop, the furthest we travel regularly, and nearly all of it is mobile work at the house. A fitted windshield is $250 to $450, a chip fill $60 to $130, and side or back glass $200 to $500. Call 215-608-1108.
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Jenkintown is a small borough with a proper centre, which means two very different parking situations within half a mile of each other. Around West Avenue, Greenwood Avenue and the station there is a lot of short-stay kerb and lot parking, cars in and out all day, doors opening, people reversing out of angled bays. On the residential streets a few blocks away there are driveways, garages and quiet roads under mature trees. The glass work follows the split: low-speed knocks and mirror or quarter glass damage from the centre, storm and stone damage from everywhere else.
Because it is the furthest we travel routinely, we are straight with people here about how to make it worth doing. If the car sits at a house with a driveway, the van is the obvious answer and we can be there and finished inside a morning. If you are already coming into the city for something else, dropping the car at the shop on the way is the cheapest use of your time, because everything is here and nothing depends on the weather. What we would rather you did not do is drive around for six weeks with a chip because the trip felt like a hassle. Ring 215-608-1108 and we will sort out which version suits.
Old York Road runs through the borough as the main road, carrying the through traffic, the buses and the retail frontage, and it is where most of the queuing happens. West Avenue and Greenwood Avenue take the local movement, and Township Line Road marks the boundary on one side. The Jenkintown-Wyncote station sits just off the centre with a commuter lot that fills early and empties in the evening. Away from Old York Road the streets are residential and wooded, curving rather than gridded, with driveways and garages on most properties and street trees close to the kerb. The result is a place where a car is either in a busy short-stay space or standing quietly on private ground, with very little in between.
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One: low-speed damage around the centre. Angled bays, tight lots, doors opening into narrow aisles and drivers reversing out onto Old York Road account for most of the mirror glass and quarter windows we replace here. Two: stone collected on the commute, because Old York Road, Township Line Road and the routes toward the highways carry buses and trucks, and that is where windshield chips start. Three: trees. Mature street trees and wooded gardens mean storm limbs on parked cars and a constant film of sap and seed on the glass, which the wipers then grind in. Four: the winter garage-to-frost swing that finishes off whatever chip the autumn produced.
Old York Road south is the whole journey for most of it. Follow it through Elkins Park and Melrose Park, across Cheltenham Avenue into the city, and stay with it past Hunting Park until it puts you onto Broad Street. Head south on Broad past Erie Avenue to Allegheny Avenue, turn east and run about half a mile to Germantown Avenue, then onto the Avenue for the last short stretch to 3115. Twenty-five to thirty minutes when the road is behaving and rather more in the morning peak. If Old York Road is queued through Elkins Park, cutting west to Ogontz Avenue and coming down that way is usually quicker. Or call 215-608-1108 and stay where you are.
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No, but it is the outer edge of what we do routinely, so we book it rather than fit it in. That means agreeing a morning or an afternoon rather than a vague window, confirming the glass is in the building before we set off, and giving you the price on the phone. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make, model and what has happened. If your car needs glass that has to be ordered, we will tell you then rather than after a wasted trip.
It is possible, but a driveway is much better, and the reason is practical rather than legal. A commuter lot is packed by half eight, the bays are narrow, and we need room to stand alongside the car with a door fully open for the best part of an hour. If the driveway is not an option, tell us on 215-608-1108 exactly where the car will be and for how long, and we will say honestly whether we can do a proper job there.
For a chip fill or a side window, light rain is workable because we can shelter the area we are working on. A windshield is different: the bonding surface has to be dry and the temperature sensible for the urethane to cure properly, so we would rather move the appointment than fit a screen badly. If the forecast is poor we will call you the day before and offer either a new date or a slot at the shop at 3115 Germantown Avenue.
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