Fifteen minutes, about four miles down Stenton Avenue. Chestnut Hill cars come to 6800 Ogontz Avenue for the same reason everyone else does: a fitted windshield is $250 to $450, a chip fill is $60 to $130 and takes half an hour, and side, quarter or back glass is $200 to $500. If your car has a camera behind the mirror or a heated screen, say so on the phone and you get the right part and the right price first. Call 215-608-1108.
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Chestnut Hill is the one place on our list where the road surface itself is the main cause of the work. Germantown Avenue through the village is Belgian block with old trolley rail still set into it, and driving that stretch is a continuous low-frequency hammering through the whole shell of the car. A chip that would sit quietly for a year on smooth asphalt does not survive many trips over those blocks. People tell us the crack appeared out of nowhere; what actually happened is that it was flexed a few hundred times a week until it went.
The rest of the picture is quieter. Cars here mostly live on driveways under old trees, behind stone houses, and a good number of them are newer than average, which matters for glass: rain sensors, heated wiper parks, acoustic laminate and forward-facing cameras behind the mirror all change the part number and the price. The other steady source of work is the station car parks at both ends of the village, where cars stand all day and occasionally get a window put through. None of it needs a dealer. Ring 215-608-1108 with the VIN, get told exactly which screen your car takes, and drive down Stenton Avenue.
Germantown Avenue climbs the length of the village and is the reason anyone talks about the road surface here at all: block paving, granite kerbs, old rail, and angled kerbside parking along the shopping stretch. Bethlehem Pike carries on north from the top of the hill, Northwestern Avenue caps it at the city line, and Willow Grove Avenue and Highland Avenue cross the middle. Cresheim Valley Drive drops away into the gorge on the Mount Airy side, wooded and unlit and tight. Stenton Avenue picks up at the eastern edge and runs south-east from there, which is the road that connects the neighbourhood to us. The residential streets are wide, stone-walled and heavily shaded, with long driveways and, on the older properties, garages set well back from the road.
“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, the Belgian block on Germantown Avenue. Nothing else in the whole service area turns an existing chip into a full crack as reliably, and it does it to cars that never saw a highway. Two, the tree cover, which is exceptional here: limbs, seed drop and sap onto cars standing on driveways, and a branch on a rear screen is a $200 to $500 job on the spot. Three, the angled parking along the shopping blocks, where reversing out into moving traffic accounts for most of the mirror glass we see from the Hill. Four, the station car parks at either end of the village, where a car left from eight in the morning until seven at night is an easy target. Five, grit off Bethlehem Pike and the county roads north of the line.
Stenton Avenue is the whole trip. Pick it up on the eastern side of the village, follow it south-east past the Mount Airy and Cedarbrook edges for about three miles, then turn east on Washington Lane or Cheltenham Avenue and run across to Ogontz Avenue. From Ogontz it is a short hop to 68th Avenue, where we are. If Germantown Avenue is closed for an event, come down Bethlehem Pike to Stenton and pick it up there instead. Reckon on fifteen minutes without traffic. If you would rather not sit and wait for a windshield, drop the car in the morning and it is normally ready that afternoon.
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It is not a problem, but it has to be known before the glass is ordered, because a screen with a camera bracket, a rain sensor or a heated wiper park is a different part from the plain one and a different price inside the $250 to $450 range. Some vehicles also want the camera recalibrated after the screen is changed, which is a separate step and not something to discover afterwards. Ring 215-608-1108 with the VIN and you will be told what your car needs before anything is ordered.
Around here, yes, sooner rather than later. Cold nights, a hot defroster and repeated trips over the block paving on Germantown Avenue are three of the best ways to make a stable chip run, and Chestnut Hill supplies all three. A fill is $60 to $130 and half an hour of your morning. Waiting until it crosses the screen turns it into a $250 to $450 replacement and, if it reaches the driver's line of sight, it is an inspection problem as well.
Often, yes, and a long private driveway is close to ideal for the van. What we need is room to open a door fully and stand beside the glass, a reasonably level surface and weather that lets adhesive behave. Under a dripping canopy in a downpour is not it. If the van is the wrong call for your car or your driveway, we will say so rather than turn up and improvise, and the drive down Stenton Avenue is fifteen minutes.
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