$250 to $450 fitted covers most windshields on a Hunting Park car, and the glass work itself runs about an hour before the safe drive-away clock even starts. We are at 3538 N Lawrence St, just off Erie Avenue, which puts nearly every block between the park and Front Street inside five minutes of the bay. Give us the year, make and model on 215-608-1108 and the figure you hear is the figure on the bill.
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Erie Avenue is the reason a good share of this work exists. It is the corridor everything heavy uses to cross this part of North Philadelphia: box trucks running between the yards off Hunting Park Avenue, buses stacking up at Broad and Erie, contractors' pickups with an unsheeted load in the bed. Sit behind one of those at thirty-five and sooner or later a stone comes off a tailgate. The mark it leaves is usually small enough to ignore on the day. Two cold nights later, defroster on full, it has walked six inches toward the A-pillar, and once damage reaches the outer inch of the pane there is nothing left to repair, because that edge is where the bond carries load.
The replacement itself is unglamorous work and it is where the job is won or lost. Old pane out, pinchweld cut back to a thin even bed of adhesive rather than scraped to bare metal, every scratch we open primed, and the new glass set on one continuous bead of fresh urethane with new moldings instead of the brittle ones that came off in pieces. Then a real safe drive-away time, shorter on a warm afternoon and longer on a damp forty-degree morning, given to you when you book rather than when you are standing at the counter with your keys out. Glass for the cars that actually fill these blocks is usually here or a couple of hours away. Anything with a rain sensor, a heated wiper park or a camera bracket behind the mirror gets checked against the VIN first.
“Very nice people working here! They quickly received my windshield and installed it! The gentleman that replaced the window was very careful and polite! I've been here a few times for window replacement and have never had a negative experience! And pricing is also very reasonable!”
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Working in the neighborhood the shop sits in changes the shape of the day. Almost nobody in Hunting Park books a windshield a week out. They call around nine when they see the crack, drive four or five blocks, and wait the cure out instead of coming back for it. That hour is the part people underrate. Urethane wants a still, dry stretch of time to reach strength, and a rowhouse block with a bus route on it is the opposite of that; under a roof it gets what it needs. Because there is no tow and no long drive with a screen you cannot see through, a windshield here costs you a morning rather than a day. We are open nine to six six days a week, closed Sunday.
Same service, same price, other Hunting Park neighborhoods:
Usually yes. Glass for common sedans, SUVs and light trucks sits on a regional shelf, so the order goes in as soon as we have the year, make, model and VIN, parts land within a couple of hours, and the fitting is about an hour after that. A mid-morning call is normally a car you drive home the same afternoon. We are open nine to six Monday through Saturday and closed Sunday, so Saturday is a full working day here rather than a half one. What slows a job is never the distance, it is a screen with a rain sensor, an acoustic interlayer or a camera bracket that has to be matched exactly, and you will hear about that on the phone rather than after you have arrived.
It changes what happens after the glass is in. A forward-facing camera looks through one specific part of the windshield, and once that pane has been replaced the camera's aim has to be verified against the manufacturer's procedure before lane keeping and automatic braking can be trusted again. We look for that bracket the moment you give us the year, make and model, and we tell you up front that recalibration is part of your job instead of letting you find out from a dashboard light on Roosevelt Boulevard. Plenty of the cars we fit around Hunting Park have no camera at all, and on those there is nothing extra to arrange.
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