$60 to $130 and about half an hour is what most Collingdale calls turn into, because the shop is close enough that people bring a chip in before it has time to run. It is two miles and six or seven minutes from 448 Primos Avenue. A full windshield is $250 to $450 fitted, about an hour plus safe drive-away time. Door, quarter and back glass runs $200 to $500. Open 8:00 to 4:00 Monday to Friday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Collingdale is a borough of twins and rows on a tight grid, and the parking here is a particular arrangement you see all over it: a driveway just wide enough for one car, a garage at the back that has not held a vehicle since the 1970s, and whichever car does not fit left at the kerb. Two-car households are the norm and one-car driveways are the norm too, so the maths does not work and the street takes the difference. MacDade Boulevard runs straight through the middle of all this with four lanes of shops, buses and turning traffic on it.
That gives us two very different kinds of job from the same borough. From the driveways we get bodywork-adjacent damage: quarter glass and mirrors clipped reversing out past a garage door frame or a neighbour's wing in the dark. From the kerb we get overnight breakage. And from MacDade we get chips, picked up at twenty miles an hour behind something heavy. A chip is the cheap one to catch, $60 to $130 and half an hour while you wait, against $250 to $450 once it has crossed the screen. Call 215-608-1108 with the year, make, model and VIN and we will tell you which category you are in before you drive down.
MacDade Boulevard defines the borough: four lanes of shops, filling stations and turning traffic, buses stopping and pulling out all day, and a surface carrying far more weight than a borough street was built for. Clifton Avenue takes the north-south movement up toward Aldan, and Chester Pike clips the southern end on its way toward Sharon Hill. Off those, Collingdale is a grid of twins and rows on narrow streets, most with a driveway wide enough for exactly one car and many with a back garage that now holds everything except a car. The western edge drops away to low ground that holds water after a hard storm, and the streets down there are the first to flood and the last to dry.
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First, MacDade Boulevard. Stop-start traffic behind buses and box trucks means a lot of time directly behind somebody else's rear tyres at twenty miles an hour, and that is exactly where windshield chips come from. Second, the driveways. A drive cut for a 1950s car with a garage door frame at the end of it is how quarter glass and mirrors meet brickwork, and it happens most in the dark half of the year, reversing out before seven. Third, the kerb. Whichever car does not fit on the drive sleeps on the street, and that is the one that loses a window. Fourth, temperature. A chip picked up in November sits through forty freezing nights and a hot defroster every morning, and it usually chooses the first properly cold week of January to run.
MacDade Boulevard south-west out of Collingdale, then cut down through Glenolden onto Chester Pike and into Folcroft; we are at 448 Primos Avenue, a couple of turns off the main road. That is two miles and about six minutes with no traffic. From the Chester Pike end of the borough it is simpler still: stay on the Pike the whole way through Sharon Hill. Either route is short enough that a chip fill is genuinely a wait-for-it job. If the car is not driveable as it stands, ask about the van when you call 215-608-1108, because a Collingdale driveway usually gives us the room we need.
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Nearly always, with one condition: the door has to swing wide with an arm's length clear beside it, so if you normally stack two cars on the drive, leave us the one nearest the street. Dry weather matters too, because the adhesive on a windshield cures properly or it does not. If the forecast turns wet across your slot we will phone and shift the booking, because a screen fitted in the rain is a screen fitted badly.
Because it is tempered, not laminated. A windshield has a plastic layer through the middle that holds a crack in place; back and side glass is heat-treated to break into small blunt pieces instead, so when it goes, it goes entirely. Fitted, back glass runs $200 to $500, and what moves it inside that range is usually a heated defroster grid, an aerial printed into the pane or a wiper. Ring through the year, make, model and VIN and the pane can be confirmed before the car is moved anywhere.
We tell you on the phone rather than after we have the car. The screens that fit the cars this end of the county is full of are kept in stock, and the local suppliers will usually turn an unusual one around the same day or the next. What decides it is the detail on your particular car, a sensor, a bracket, a heated element, an aerial, so the VIN saves a lot of guessing. Ring 215-608-1108 and you will have an honest answer in two minutes.
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