Ten minutes, straight west along Erie Avenue from almost anywhere in Juniata Park. LT Auto Glass is at 3538 N Lawrence Street, just below Erie between Front and 2nd, so there is no highway involved in getting here. Chip repair is $60 to $130 and about thirty minutes. A fitted windshield is $250 to $450. Side, quarter and rear glass is $200 to $500. Open Monday through Saturday, 9 to 6. Call 215-608-1108.
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Juniata Park has something a lot of North Philadelphia does not: room. There are semi-detached houses with porches, some driveways, garages off the back alleys and a golf course in the middle of it. That changes what breaks. Fewer cars sit out on a lit main road all night, so we see proportionally less smashed door glass from here and a good deal more windshield damage that was picked up somewhere else and brought home. It also means the mobile van is genuinely useful in Juniata Park, because there is often a driveway or a paved yard to work in rather than a live traffic lane.
The cars themselves cover ground. This is a neighborhood that drives to work in the Northeast, down to Center City or over the bridges, and those miles land on the glass. The typical call from here is somebody who has been watching a chip since the summer and has just seen it grow a leg after the first hard frost. That is fixable if you move on it: a resin fill at $60 to $130 beats a $250 to $450 replacement, and the deciding factor is almost always how long you left it. Describe where the damage sits and how long it has been there when you ring, and we will tell you which of those two you are facing before you drive anywhere.
Castor Avenue is the working road here, running northeast to southwest with buses, delivery trucks and a bus lane worth of stopping and starting, and its surface takes a beating for it. Erie Avenue continues east through the neighborhood toward the Frankford side and is the direct link back to us. Wyoming Avenue crosses on the north, Roosevelt Boulevard clips the top corner, and Tacony Creek Park forms the western boundary, which means the roads that cross it dip down into the valley and climb back out. Around the Juniata Golf Course the streets are shaded by mature trees on both sides, and that shade is a mixed blessing for anything parked underneath it.
“I would definitely recommend this place for any glass repairs. Someone broke into my car through the sunroof, and they were able to fix it the same day without needing to keep my vehicle. The price was communicated to us in advance, which I appreciated. Just a heads-up: they only accept cash, not cards, so make sure to withdraw money before you arrive.”
One, mileage on other people's roads. Juniata Park cars commute, so the chips arrive from the Boulevard, from I-95 and from the bridge approaches, and they arrive unnoticed. Two, Castor Avenue. Constant braking behind buses and trucks means you spend a lot of time close behind the vehicle in front, which is exactly where thrown stone finds a windshield. Three, the trees. Sap glues grit onto the glass, small limbs come down in summer storms, and a scraper or a dry wiper then drags that grit across the screen and leaves the fine scoring that turns every oncoming headlight into a starburst. Four, the creek crossings, where the roads dip, collect washed sand and stone after rain, and throw it back up at whatever is following.
Erie Avenue does the whole job. Get on it wherever you happen to be in Juniata Park and head west, across Tacony Creek and on past Castor, 5th and Front. A couple of blocks past Front, turn south into the small streets: 3538 N Lawrence sits in the block between Front and 2nd. From the northern blocks near the Boulevard, come down Whitaker Avenue or Wyoming Avenue to Erie first. Roughly ten minutes without traffic. If your car has a driveway or a yard to stand in, ask about the mobile van on 215-608-1108 and we will bring the glass to the house.
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Usually yes, and this is one of the neighborhoods where it makes real sense because so many houses here have somewhere off the street to put a car. What we need is a flat spot where both front doors open fully, enough room for someone to stand at each side of the glass, and cover or dry weather. Adhesive cure is temperature and moisture sensitive, so on a wet January day the shop is the better answer. Ten minutes down Erie Avenue is not much of a hardship either way.
No, and that is worth knowing before you spend anything. A chip in the middle of the panel is a contained bruise and resin will stabilize it. Damage that begins at the edge is sitting where the glass is bonded to the body, which is the part carrying the structural load, and it will keep travelling no matter what goes into it. Edge cracks are a replacement, $250 to $450 fitted. If you cannot tell which one you have, say where the damage begins and you will get a straight answer on the phone.
Yes. Back glass is tempered, so when it fails it goes to pieces all at once rather than cracking, and the defroster grid is printed on the inside face of the replacement panel with tabs that reconnect to the car's existing leads. The job runs in the $200 to $500 band with the rest of the side and rear glass. What eats the clock is clearing fragments out of the trunk well, the seat backs and the parcel shelf properly, and that is in the price rather than left with you.
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