Ten minutes and three miles, straight down Chester Pike. A smashed door or quarter window is the call we take most often from Darby: $200 to $500 fitted, usually the same day, with the shards vacuumed out of the door skin and the seat rails before you get the keys back. Chip fills are $60 to $130 and half an hour. A windshield is $250 to $450 fitted. The bay is at 448 Primos Avenue in Folcroft, open 8:00 to 4:00 on weekdays. Call 215-608-1108.
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Darby has less off-street parking than anywhere else we cover. The rows were built tight to the pavement with no space to put a car, so nearly every vehicle in the borough sleeps at a kerb, and a good number of them sleep on a block that is dark and quiet by nine. On top of that the borough absorbs an enormous amount of other people's movement: two trolley routes and a stack of bus routes finish at the transportation centre, Mercy Fitzgerald draws shift traffic in and out at hours when nothing else is running, and county traffic uses Main Street and Chester Pike to get across.
So the work splits cleanly. Overnight breakage is most of it, and the part that matters there is not the pane, it is the cleanup, because a tempered pane does not leave you a crack to look at, it disintegrates, and the pieces work their way down into the door bottom, the runners and the seat rails. The rest is stone damage collected on the two main roads. Both are a ten-minute drive from the shop, and both are cheaper the sooner they are looked at. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make, model and VIN and you will know before you leave the house whether the glass is in the building. If the car cannot be driven as it stands, ask for the van.
Main Street and Chester Pike are the two roads that matter, and between them they push most of eastern Delaware County past somebody's front step every day. The 11 and 13 trolleys both finish at the Darby Transportation Center, so buses, trolleys and cars are all turning in the same few hundred yards. Lansdowne Avenue climbs north out of the borough past Mercy Fitzgerald, and the streets around the hospital fill with shift parking well before seven in the morning. MacDade Boulevard starts up at this end of the county and heads west toward Collingdale. The residential blocks are rows built to the pavement edge with next to no driveways, and the low ground where the creeks meet goes properly under water in a hard storm rather than merely puddling.
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The biggest single cause is a car left on a dark, narrow block all night, and Darby has more of those than anywhere else on this list. A rear door window is seconds of work for somebody who wants the bag on the back seat. Second is the road surface on Main Street and Chester Pike, both opened up and filled in so often that the road is more repair than original; the ridge along a patch edge is what launches stone into the windshield behind. Third is the sheer volume of stopping. Buses and trucks pulling away in front of you around the transportation centre fling grit from a car length away, and a low-speed hit stars glass just as well as a fast one. Fourth is water: when the creeks come up, people find the carpets wet a week later and blame the windshield seal. Occasionally that is right; far more often a drain has silted up, and it is worth knowing which before anybody sells you glass.
Chester Pike does the entire journey. Join it wherever it is closest to you in Darby, head south-west through Sharon Hill, and three miles later you are in Folcroft; we are at 448 Primos Avenue, one turn off the Pike. From the hospital end, come down Lansdowne Avenue to Main Street first and join the Pike there. Ten minutes when the lights are kind, closer to fifteen at the school run or a shift change. If the seats are covered in glass, or the window drops back into the door every time you raise it, do not make the trip to prove you can: call 215-608-1108 and we will bring the van to the block instead.
Stockers Glass works across Folcroft and the surrounding towns — pick your neighborhood:
Usually, but tell us the block and the nearest cross street when you book. We need about a car's width of clear ground on the working side and a dry hour to do it in. Shift change is the wrong hour to try it, because every space within three streets is taken. If your block simply will not work on a weekday morning, you will hear that from us on the phone instead of watching us discover it at the kerb.
More than you would think, and we do. A tempered side window breaks into thousands of small pieces that go into the door skin below the glass, into the runners the window slides in, into the seat rails and down the back of the seat squab. Clearing those out properly is most of the labour on the job and it is included in the $200 to $500. If you vacuum it yourself first, you tend to push pieces deeper into the door, so leave it.
Do the arithmetic before you call the insurer. Door glass is $200 to $500 fitted and a comprehensive deductible is often $500 or more, so claiming can end up costing you the same cash and marking your record as well. Chip repairs go the other way: comprehensive frequently pays them in full, which is the strongest argument there is for dealing with a chip at $60 to $130 rather than waiting for a $250 to $450 windshield.
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