Seven miles and roughly twenty-five minutes down Old York Road, which is why most Abington work is done by van. A mobile chip fill is $60 to $130 and takes about half an hour on your own driveway. A fitted windshield is $250 to $450, an hour of work plus safe drive-away time before the car is moved. Side, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500. Call 215-608-1108 for a slot.
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Abington is the far end of what we cover, and we are honest about that: driving down Old York Road and Easton Road in either peak is not a good use of anybody's morning. So the answer here is the van. Abington is laid out for it, with detached houses on decent plots, driveways at almost every address and enough space around a parked car to work properly. A weekday morning visit means the job is finished before lunch and nobody has spent an hour in traffic to make it happen.
The damage pattern is suburban and predictable. Easton Road and Old York Road carry the volume, including everything heading for the hospital and the retail strips, and they are where the stone chips come from. Susquehanna Road and the crosstown routes are quieter but narrower, with tree cover and no shoulder, so what gets thrown up stays in the traffic lane. Then the car goes home to a driveway under a mature tree, where a chip sits unnoticed until a January morning with the defroster on full turns it into a line across the screen. Shift workers add the other pattern: cars parked in staff lots overnight, occasionally coming back to a missing window. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model and you will get a real price and a real time.
Old York Road becomes Easton Road as it runs north through the township, and between them they carry the bulk of the traffic, four lanes in places, with the hospital, the retail strips and the side roads feeding on and off constantly. Susquehanna Road is the main crosstown route, two lanes, wooded in stretches, with dips and bends and no shoulder to catch grit. Roslyn and the older sections have tighter grids with kerb parking, while the newer streets are curved, kerbed and generously set back with long driveways. The regional rail line runs up the western side with station car parks at intervals. Away from the arterials this is quiet, green, low-traffic territory where a car standing on a drive is under trees for most of the year.
“While driving on Lincoln drive something hit my driver window and my entire window broke into tiny pieces 😩 scariest thing ever! I went to this glass and mirror repair shop around 3;30-4pm. Told the owner my story. He got right on the phone to order my glass and told me he will call me tomorrow morning so I could drop my car off. Keeping his word , He called me 1st thing in the morning to drop my car off and told me it would be ready within the next hour. He called me an hour later to pick up my car! My window looks great as if nothing ever happened! Super fast and cheap! I have a 2015 kia Optima $190 to fix. I am very happy and will be sending folks his way! Black owed as well!!”
One, Easton Road and Old York Road, which between them account for most Abington windshield damage: heavy volume, constant turning, stop-start behind trucks and buses, and patched kerb lanes. Two, the wooded crosstown roads like Susquehanna, where loose stone sits in the running lane and the tree cover drops debris onto it. Three, the driveway delay, which is the same story as everywhere with off-street parking: a chip collected in the autumn is not noticed until the first hard freeze finishes it. Four, hospital and shift-work parking, where cars stand overnight in staff and visitor lots and side windows occasionally go. Five, summer storms and the limbs they put down on parked cars.
If you do want to drive it, take Easton Road south until it becomes Old York Road, carry on through Jenkintown, Elkins Park and Melrose Park to Cheltenham Avenue, then turn west and stay on it across Broad Street to Ogontz Avenue and down to 68th. Seven miles, twenty-five minutes off-peak, and considerably more at five o'clock. The quieter alternative is to cut west to Limekiln Pike and come down through Glenside and Cheltenham Township instead. Most Abington customers skip the drive entirely and book the van, which is what the mobile service exists for.
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Yes, and it is close to the edge of it, which is worth saying plainly rather than discovering on the day. The van covers Abington on planned visits rather than as an emergency call-out, so give as much notice as you can and expect a morning or afternoon slot rather than a within-the-hour arrival. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model, and you will be told the price, the timing and whether the glass has to be ordered first.
The job gets moved. Urethane and glass both need reasonable conditions to bond properly, and fitting a windshield in driving rain or a hard frost produces something that looks fine and is not. If the forecast is bad we will ring you rather than turn up, do it anyway and leave you with a screen that leaks in six months. A chip fill in particular needs the damage clean and dry, which a wet morning rules out entirely.
Often, provided the lot is open, the space is reachable and nobody objects to a van working there. It suits Abington shift patterns well: the car stands in one place for eight hours, which is more than enough for the fit and the safe drive-away time afterwards. Check with whoever manages the parking first, tell us the location and the bay when you book, and make sure we can get to the driver's side rather than being wedged between two other cars.
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