Fifteen minutes down Old York Road, or the van comes to your driveway. Elkins Park is about four miles from the shop at 6800 Ogontz Avenue, far enough that most people here choose mobile work: a chip fill on the drive takes about half an hour and costs $60 to $130, a fitted windshield is $250 to $450 plus safe drive-away time before the car moves, and side or back glass is $200 to $500. Call 215-608-1108.
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Elkins Park is built on a scale that suits a van. Long driveways, deep set-backs, detached garages behind the older houses, and streets wide enough that nobody minds a vehicle standing outside for an hour. When somebody rings from here it is usually because they would rather not spend a morning sitting in a waiting room over a job that takes forty minutes, and the honest answer is that they do not have to. Most of what we do in Elkins Park happens on the customer's own drive.
The damage itself comes from the roads out, not the streets in. Old York Road takes the through traffic north and south and is stop-start for most of its length here, Church Road and Ashbourne Road carry the crosstown volume, and everybody eventually ends up on one of them. That is where the stone chips are collected. Then the car goes home, stands under mature trees on a driveway, and the chip waits out a season of cold nights and hot defroster mornings before it runs. The station on the regional line adds the other pattern: cars parked all day while somebody is at work in town, and the occasional window that does not survive it. Ring 215-608-1108 with the vehicle details and you will get the price and a slot on the one call.
Old York Road runs the length of the borough as the main artery, four lanes in places with turning traffic, shops and the hospital run further north feeding into it. Church Road and Ashbourne Road cross it, carrying local traffic between the townships, and High School Road and the residential lanes off it wind through the older sections. The Tookany Creek and its park land run along the southern side, giving a set of tree-shaded, low-lying roads that hold water and grit after rain. The Elkins Park station sits just off York Road with commuter parking. The houses on the older streets are large and set well back with long private drives, mature specimen trees, and stone walls at the pavement line instead of kerbs on some blocks.
“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 Old York Road, which is where nearly every Elkins Park windshield picks up its first mark: constant braking, turning traffic, bus and delivery volume, and a kerb lane that has been patched more than resurfaced. Second, the tree canopy over the driveways, which is genuinely exceptional here and puts limbs, seed and sap onto standing cars all year. Third, the delay that a driveway buys: with the car sitting quietly out of the way, a chip goes unnoticed through the whole autumn and lets go in January. Fourth, the station car park and the commuter pattern that goes with it, which is the main source of the side-glass work we do in the borough.
If you are driving it in, take Old York Road south through Melrose Park to Cheltenham Avenue, turn west, cross Broad Street and keep going to Ogontz Avenue, then down Ogontz to 68th. About four miles and fifteen minutes without a queue at the York Road lights. From the Church Road side, come down Washington Lane to Cheltenham Avenue instead and turn west there, which avoids the retail traffic entirely. If the trip is a nuisance, ring and ask about the van: an Elkins Park driveway is close to the ideal working spot for mobile glass.
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It can be done on the drive, and in Elkins Park it usually is. What the job needs is a level surface, room to work both sides of the car, and weather the adhesive will tolerate: not heavy rain, not a hard frost, and not under a tree that is still dripping. It is $250 to $450 fitted. Afterwards the car has to stand for the safe drive-away time, which you get as a specific figure on the day, so do not plan on leaving straight away.
It changes the glass and it may change what has to happen afterwards, so it needs to be known before anything is ordered. Screens with a rain sensor, an acoustic layer, a heated wiper park or a camera bracket are specific parts, and the price sits at the upper end of the $250 to $450 range. Some vehicles also require the camera to be recalibrated once the new screen is in. Ring 215-608-1108 with the VIN and you will be told what your car actually needs.
Usually a day, sometimes less. The limiting factor is almost never the diary, it is the glass: if your screen is a common one it can be here within hours, and if it is not, it gets ordered on the call and you are told when it lands. Give us the year, make, model and the VIN if you have it. We are out Monday to Saturday, 9 to 5, and closed on Sunday, so a Saturday-night problem is a Monday-morning call.
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