About seven minutes, once you are over Broad Street. East Oak Lane sits a mile and a half from the shop at 6800 Ogontz Avenue, and the simplest run is Cheltenham Avenue west to Ogontz. Chip fills are $60 to $130 and take around half an hour. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted. Door, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500. We are open 9 to 5 Monday to Saturday, closed Sunday. Call 215-608-1108.
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East Oak Lane keeps more of its cars off the street than most of this end of the city. The stone and brick singles and twins on the streets running back from Old York Road came with driveways and, on the older blocks, detached garages behind the house, so a fair number of cars sleep off the kerb. That changes the shape of the damage. Fewer smashed door windows, more of the slow kind: a chip taken on the Boulevard in October that nobody sees in a dark driveway until a January morning turns it into a line running from the wiper park to the mirror.
The trees are the other thing. The neighbourhood is named for them and it still has them, big old oaks and sycamores leaning over driveways and pavements, and every summer storm and every autumn gale puts something down on a roof or a windshield. Then there is the daily traffic on Old York Road and the Boulevard, which is where the stone comes from in the first place. Whatever the cause, the fix is close: over Broad Street, along Cheltenham Avenue, and down Ogontz. Ring 215-608-1108 with the plate details and you will know the price and whether the glass is here before you move the car.
Broad Street runs down the western edge of the neighbourhood and Cheltenham Avenue closes it off at the top, with the county line right behind it. Old York Road comes through on the diagonal, carrying the traffic that keeps going north into Melrose Park and Elkins Park, and the numbered avenues, 65th through 70th, fill the grid between. Roosevelt Boulevard clips the south-eastern corner, and that is a different order of road entirely: twelve lanes of patched concrete with traffic changing lanes across all of them. Off the arterials the streets are wide by Philadelphia standards, with kerb parking, deep front gardens and a canopy of mature trees, and they run over enough of a slope that water finds the same low corners every time it rains and freezes there first.
“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!!”
Start with the Boulevard and Old York Road. Almost every chip we take out of an East Oak Lane windshield was collected on one of them, off a truck tyre, at speed, on concrete that has been patched more times than anyone has counted. Second is delay, which is what driveways and garages buy you: the chip sits out of sight for a season, freezing overnight and cooking under a defroster every morning, until it runs. Third is the tree cover. Limbs, and in a bad autumn whole branches, come down on cars parked under the canopy, and a back glass will take that badly. Fourth is the tight parking around the shops and the schools on the York Road side, where a mirror or a quarter light gets clipped by something squeezing past.
The easiest line is Cheltenham Avenue. Take it west across Broad Street and keep going about a mile to Ogontz Avenue, then turn down Ogontz and follow it to 68th Avenue; we are on the corridor there. From the Old York Road blocks, run up to Cheltenham Avenue first rather than trying to cut across the grid. From the southern end near the Boulevard, 66th Avenue west to Broad and then across works fine, and so does Olney Avenue west to Ogontz followed by a run up Ogontz. It is a mile and a half either way and around seven minutes outside the school run.
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Yes, and this is exactly the neighbourhood where people find out the hard way. A repair is $60 to $130 and takes about half an hour; once the chip runs, it is a $250 to $450 windshield. What makes one run is temperature swing and flex, and a car sitting in a cold driveway overnight then blasted with a defroster gets both every morning. If the damage is smaller than a quarter and not in the driver's direct line of sight, bring it in before the next cold snap.
Yes. Back glass is $200 to $500 fitted depending on the car and what is built into it, and the ones with a heating element or an aerial printed into the glass need the right part number rather than a near-enough match, so give us the year, make and model when you ring. The awkward part with a back glass is that the pieces travel the whole length of the cabin. We clear the parcel shelf and the boot as part of the job.
Usually for the cars people actually drive around here. Common windshields and door glass come from local suppliers and can be here within hours. What changes the answer is the detail on the screen: a rain sensor, a heated wiper park, an aerial, or a camera bracket behind the mirror all change the part. Ring 215-608-1108 with the VIN and you will get a straight answer about today or tomorrow before you commit to anything.
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