Ten to fifteen minutes and about three miles, though the airport roads mean it is not a straight line. Most Essington work is mobile, at a house, a hotel lot or a yard, because people here keep hours that do not match a shop day. A chip fill is $60 to $130 and takes half an hour, a windshield is $250 to $450 fitted, and door, quarter or back glass runs $200 to $500. We work out of 448 Primos Avenue in Folcroft, 8:00 to 4:00 Monday to Friday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Essington is airport, river and industry pressed into a narrow strip. Route 291 runs the length of it along the water carrying freight, fuel and airport traffic at every hour of the day, and behind that there is a mix you will not find anywhere else on this list: marinas and boatyards on the river, hotels and long-stay parking serving the airport, warehouses and yards behind them, and older houses on short streets in between. The airport fence is the boundary for much of it, so nothing here runs to a nine-to-five clock.
That is why so much of what we do in Essington happens on the van rather than in the bay. Cars stand in lots for days at a time while their owners are away or on shift, and a car that is not going anywhere is the easiest kind to fix properly: we come to it, do the work, and the owner comes back to a car with glass in it. The rest is the drive down, which is short but awkward because the airport roads are in the way. Either way, call 215-608-1108 first with the year, make, model and the VIN. Chips are $60 to $130 and half an hour, and the salt-laden air out here is a good reason not to let one sit through a winter.
Route 291 runs the length of Essington along the river as the industrial road, carrying freight, fuel and airport traffic around the clock. Wanamaker Avenue crosses it as Route 420 and climbs away toward I-95 and Prospect Park, which is the only sensible way out of here going north. Between the two is the mix that makes the place: marinas and boatyards on the water, hotels and long-stay lots serving the airport, warehouses and yards behind them, and short residential streets tucked in among it. The ground is flat, low and close to the tide, the airport fence forms much of the northern edge, and salt air is on everything all year.
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The industrial roads come first by a distance. Route 291 carries loaded trucks and tankers past the same points all day, the surface is patched and plated where the utilities have been in, and the stone that comes off a tyre there is bigger than anything you pick up on a borough street. Second is standing time: cars left in long-stay and hotel lots sit for days, and a window that goes on a Tuesday is often not discovered until Friday. Third is the river air. Salt does not crack glass, but it pits it and it works at the trim and the clips, so old windshield seals fail earlier here than a few miles inland. Fourth is the traffic pattern itself, with shift changes and drop-off runs putting a lot of low-speed manoeuvring into small, crowded lots.
It is a short run but not a straight one, because the airport roads sit in the way. From the marina end, take Route 291 west and then Wanamaker Avenue north across I-95 into Prospect Park, pick up Chester Pike and head east through Norwood and Glenolden into Folcroft; we are at 448 Primos Avenue off the Pike. Ten to fifteen minutes depending on what the lights on 291 are doing. If you are working a shift and the car is standing in a lot anyway, the van is usually the better answer: call 215-608-1108 with the lot, the row and the plate, and we will come to the car instead.
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Yes, provided whoever runs the lot is happy with it, and that is worth checking before you book rather than after. We need the lot, the row, the space if it has a number, the plate and a description of the car, plus space to swing a door wide and a dry hour. It suits Essington particularly well, because a car that is sitting for three days anyway loses nothing by being worked on while it waits.
Not by cracking it. What salt and grit do over years is pit the surface, thousands of tiny marks you never notice until you are driving into low sun or oncoming headlights on a wet night, and then the whole screen scatters light. Pitting cannot be polished out in any way that lasts, so the fix is a new windshield at $250 to $450 fitted. Salt is also hard on the trim and clips around the glass, which is why old seals give up earlier along this stretch.
We are 8:00 to 4:00 Monday to Friday and closed at the weekend, so the honest answer is that the work happens during the day whether you are awake for it or not. The usual arrangements are to leave the car with us and collect it later, or to have the van come to wherever it is standing while you sleep, which only needs access to the car and someone we can reach if something comes up. Say which suits you when you call 215-608-1108.
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