$250 to $450 for a windshield and $200 to $500 for door, quarter or back glass: mobile fitting in Tioga is priced exactly like bay work, with around an hour on site for most jobs. We run out on weekdays between 7:30 and 4. Tell us the street, whether the car is on the block or in a lot, and whether it can be moved, and we will say on the phone whether it is workable.
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Tioga is easier ground for mobile work than most of North Philadelphia, and the reason is the housing. Along Tioga Street and the blocks around it there are big old twins and semi-detached houses with side drives and set-back parking, which is unusual this side of the city and enormously useful to a glass fitter. A car standing on its own driveway can be worked all the way round without a lane closed behind us, the van can sit alongside with its doors open, and nobody is being waved past six inches from an open bodyshell. The tighter rowhouse blocks further south work too, they just need a bit more planning about where the van sits.
What we look at before agreeing to an outdoor windshield is not really the space, it is the conditions. Urethane cures by pulling moisture out of the air, so temperature and humidity set the real safe drive-away time, and wind decides how much airborne grit lands on a freshly primed pinchweld in the two minutes before the pane goes down. On a mild dry day none of that is a problem. On a raw one it means a longer wait before you can drive, and you will be given that number honestly rather than a convenient one. Side and rear glass is far less fussy, which is why that work goes out in almost any weather.
“Excellent job and great professional service. Dropped my car off 8am and it was done within two hours. Pricing for my window replacement was the most reasonable in the city of Philadelphia. Highly recommend.”
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The single most useful thing about mobile work in Tioga is the number of cars that never get a free daytime hour. Hospital and transit shifts, twelve-hour patterns, people who park near Erie or Allegheny station and ride the Broad Street Line downtown: those cars sit in one place all day doing nothing, which is precisely what a glass fitter wants. If you can tell us where the vehicle will be standing between 7:30 and 4 and confirm the lot or block allows a van alongside, the job gets done while you are at work rather than eating an evening. We do need access to both sides of the car and, on a windshield, permission to have the vehicle stationary for its full cure, so it is worth a word with whoever runs the lot before we set off.
Same service, same price, other North Philadelphia neighborhoods:
Very often, yes, and it is one of the most common ways this gets booked in Tioga. What we need is somewhere the van can stand next to the vehicle, room to open both front doors fully, and an understanding with whoever manages the lot that the car stays put until the urethane has cured. Hospital and institutional lots usually want notice, so ask them first. Once that is agreed you can leave the keys with us and go back inside.
No. Most people hand over the keys, tell us where the car is and go. We need the vehicle unlocked or the key with us to open doors and, on some cars, to reset the window position after a drop glass. You will get a call when it is finished with the safe drive-away time for that day. Payment is settled at the vehicle or over the phone, whichever suits, and the same workmanship warranty applies as if the car had come to Germantown Avenue.
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