Ten minutes and about four miles, either along Chester Pike or across on MacDade Boulevard. Ridley Park is the far end of our in-shop patch and those cars come in every week. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted; door, quarter and back glass $200 to $500; chip fills $60 to $130 with half an hour in the bay. Find the shop at 448 Primos Avenue, Folcroft, 8:00 to 4:00 Monday to Friday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Ridley Park was laid out as a Victorian railroad suburb and it still drives like one. The streets curve instead of running in a grid, they wrap around the lake in the middle of the borough, and the trees over them are old and heavy enough to matter. Most houses have proper off-street parking, some of it in drives and garages built for carriages rather than crossovers, and the through traffic largely stays out on Chester Pike and MacDade Boulevard rather than cutting through. It is a quieter place to keep a car than anywhere else on this list, and we see fewer smashed side windows from here than from any other borough we cover.
What we get instead is weather and mileage. One heavy branch in a summer squall is enough to put a windshield or a back window out completely, which means $250 to $450 or $200 to $500 and a car full of glass to clear. And Ridley Park is a shift town: the hospital and the Boeing plant down by the river both pull people onto I-95 twice a day, which is where the stone chips actually start. Catch one early and it is half an hour and $60 to $130. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make, model and VIN and we will confirm the glass before you drive the four miles down.
The borough is built around its lake, with the streets curving away from it rather than running square, and mature trees arching over most of them. Chester Pike runs along one side and MacDade Boulevard along the other, so the through traffic keeps to the edges and the middle stays relatively calm. The regional rail station sits in the village centre. Taylor Hospital brings shift traffic in and out at hours when nothing else is moving, and the Boeing plant down by the river carries a Ridley Park address, so there is a steady flow of workers on and off I-95 morning and evening. Driveways are the rule rather than the exception here, and a fair number of them are narrow, walled and older than the cars using them.
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First, the trees. Storm damage here arrives as a single heavy branch rather than a scattering of twigs, and even in calm weather there is a whole season of pods, acorns and sap landing on cars left under the canopy. Second, the interstate. Hospital and Boeing shifts put a lot of Ridley Park cars onto I-95 twice a day, and interstate concrete is where the chip in the screen was actually collected. Third, the curves. Narrow curving streets with cars on both sides and stone kerbs are unforgiving, particularly reversing out of a drive that was cut for something the width of a carriage. Fourth, shade and frost: glass under a heavy canopy holds ice longer, so it takes more scraping and more heat through the vents, and that is what finishes off a chip that was already there.
Two straightforward ways in. Chester Pike east through Prospect Park and Norwood is the simplest: four miles, about ten minutes, and it drops you into Folcroft, and 448 Primos Avenue is a turn off the Pike from there. MacDade Boulevard is the alternative if you are on that side of the borough, north-east to Glenolden and then down onto the Pike. Do not use I-95 for this trip; it points at Philadelphia and you will come back on yourself. If a branch has gone through the glass and the car is full of it, leave it where it is and call 215-608-1108, because that is precisely what the van is for.
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Sometimes, and it depends entirely on the vehicle. Some patterns are still made and turn up as easily as a modern screen; others have to be hunted, and a few are simply not out there any more at any price. What we will not do is take the car in and then tell you. Give us the year, make, model and the VIN, and we will find out what actually exists before you commit to anything, including whether the rubber and the clips around the glass are still available, because on an older car that is often the harder half.
Get something waterproof taped across the gap from inside if the car cannot be moved under cover, and leave the debris alone. Rear glass is tempered, so there will be nothing left of the pane at all, and the fragments will have gone everywhere behind the back seat, into the load area and down into the rear seat rails. Fitted, it is $200 to $500, and what moves the figure is what is printed or mounted in the pane: heating elements, an aerial, a wiper spindle. Clearing the fragments out is part of the price. Call 215-608-1108 with the details.
Usually yes, given a clear working side to the car and a few dry hours. Weather is the real constraint: urethane needs the right conditions to cure, and a driveway under a heavy canopy still drips for a good while after the rain has stopped. If your slot looks wet we will move it rather than fit a windshield in it. Worth sweeping the leaves and clearing sap off the area first if you can, for your own sake as much as ours.
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