$60 to $130 and half an hour, and you can wait for it. That is what most Norwood calls turn into, because the borough is close enough to the shop that people come in while the damage is still a chip rather than a crack. Norwood is two miles and about six minutes from 448 Primos Avenue by Chester Pike. A full windshield is $250 to $450 fitted; door, quarter and back glass $200 to $500. Open 8:00 to 4:00 weekdays. Call 215-608-1108.
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Norwood packs a lot into a small footprint. The streets between Chester Pike and the low side of the borough are short and narrow, parked on both kerbs, with driveways cut for cars considerably smaller than the ones people now buy. Two or three vehicles per household is common and there is nowhere sensible to put the third, so it goes on the street. Below the borough the ground runs down toward Tinicum, the airport fence and the flat industrial roads, and that traffic comes through morning, evening and the middle of the night, because the airport does not keep borough hours.
The upshot is that Norwood cars collect a lot of small damage in a small area, and the shop is close enough that catching it early is easy. A repairable chip is half an hour and $60 to $130, and we can usually do it while you sit; the same mark left through a winter of frost and defroster becomes a $250 to $450 windshield and a morning built around it. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make, model and the VIN if you have it. If a window has gone rather than a screen, say so and we will confirm the pane is on the shelf before you drive down with a bin liner taped over the gap.
Chester Pike runs along one side of the borough carrying the shops, the lights and the through traffic. Winona Avenue takes the local movement through the middle, and Amosland Road heads out on the far side toward Ridley. The streets between them are short and narrow with parking on both sides, and the driveways on them were sized for a 1960s sedan rather than a modern crossover, which shows every time somebody reverses out past a hedge. The regional rail station sits close to the Pike and its lot is full by half seven. Down on the low side the borough runs toward Tinicum and the airport, and the roads there are flat, straight and used by trucks at hours when the rest of Norwood is asleep.
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One: stone off the Pike. Chester Pike through Norwood is stop-start, patched and busy with vehicles heading for the airport and the industrial roads, and that is where most of the chips we fill here were collected. Two: the tight streets. A driveway sized for a smaller era, a car parked opposite and a delivery van coming the other way is how mirrors and quarter glass get clipped. Three: heat and cold in the same twelve hours. Cars sit out in full sun with nothing to shade them, then take a defroster on full at seven the next morning, and a chip that has been stable for months picks exactly that moment to run. Four: break-ins, less often than in the bigger boroughs but real, mostly on the quieter blocks and in the station lot.
Chester Pike north-east, about two miles. From the Winona Avenue side, come out onto the Pike and turn toward Glenolden and Folcroft; from the Amosland Road end, cut back down to the Pike rather than trying to pick a way through the grid, which will not save you anything. We are at 448 Primos Avenue, two turns off the main road once you cross into Folcroft. Six minutes on a clear morning, ten if the lights are against you. Aim for early in the day if the job is a windshield, because we close at 4:00 and a screen needs an hour of fitting with safe drive-away time on top of that.
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The rough test is size, shape and position. Damage smaller than a quarter that has not yet run into a long crack is usually a fill at $60 to $130. Anything that has already spread more than a few inches, anything right at the edge of the glass where the screen takes its strength, and anything sitting directly in the driver's line of sight is usually a replacement at $250 to $450 fitted. Ring 215-608-1108 and describe it, or bring it in and we will look at it properly rather than guessing.
Slightly, in most cases. Filling a chip pushes resin into the break and cures it so the glass regains its strength and the damage stops travelling, but it does not make the mark vanish; you usually end up with a faint blemish visible if you look for it in certain light. That is the honest trade. If the chip is directly in front of your eyes, we will say so before we start, because a repair you notice every time you drive is not a good outcome.
For a chip, yes, half an hour and it is done. For a windshield, it is about an hour of work and then safe drive-away time before the car should be moved, so people usually drop it off and come back rather than sitting through the whole thing. Given we close at 4:00, morning is the slot to ask for if you want the car back the same day. Say on the phone which one you are after and we will book it accordingly.
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