Ten minutes, about two miles, west on Olney Avenue and then up Ogontz. The shop is at 6800 Ogontz Avenue. A stone chip off the Boulevard is $60 to $130 to fill and about half an hour of your morning; leave it and it becomes a $250 to $450 windshield. Side, quarter and back glass runs $200 to $500 and is usually same day for common cars. Open 9 to 5 Monday to Saturday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Two things about Fern Rock account for most of the glass work we do here, and both are about where the cars stand and what they drive on. The first is Roosevelt Boulevard, which cuts along the eastern side and is the single worst road in this part of the city for windshields. Twelve lanes of patched concrete, inner and outer roadways, traffic changing lanes across all of it at speed, and truck volume all day. A stone off a tyre on the Boulevard arrives with real force, and half the chips we fill from this neighbourhood were collected on a two-mile stretch of it.
The second is the transportation centre. Fern Rock has the northern end of the Broad Street Line and the regional rail interchange, and with them a large car park full of vehicles left from seven in the morning until seven at night, five days a week. That is a break-in pattern all of its own: nobody is coming back for twelve hours and nobody around the lot knows whose car is whose. The commuters who use it come to us because we are on the other side of Ogontz Avenue, we are open at nine when they get back, and door glass for common cars can be sorted the same day rather than turning into a week without a car.
Broad Street runs down the western side and Roosevelt Boulevard along the eastern, with Olney Avenue and Godfrey Avenue crossing between them and Nedro Avenue threading the residential grid. The Boulevard is the thing that dominates: service roads either side of the main carriageways, U-turn slots, and concrete that has been patched in slabs for decades, so the joints between the patches are what your tyres and your glass actually feel. Olney Avenue is the useful road for us, crossing Broad Street and continuing west until it meets Ogontz Avenue near the high schools. Off the arterials, the neighbourhood is rows and twins with kerb parking, small front yards and, around the transportation centre, a mix of commuter parking and short-term traffic dropping people at the station all day.
“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, Roosevelt Boulevard, comfortably. Speed, truck volume, lane changes and patched concrete produce more windshield stars per mile than any other road we serve. Two, the station car park, where cars stand unattended all day and the break-ins tend to be a side window rather than anything subtle. Three, the joints and expansion gaps on the Boulevard and the ramps, which flex an already chipped screen enough to make it run in a single commute. Four, the winter cycle on street-parked cars: ice, defroster, scraper, and a chip that had been quiet since October opens up in a week. Five, kerbside clipping on the narrower residential streets, mostly mirrors, mostly on bin day.
Olney Avenue is the straight line. Take it west across Broad Street and stay on it until Ogontz Avenue, then turn up Ogontz and run to 68th Avenue. If you are coming off the Boulevard, exit at Olney Avenue rather than trying to cut through the grid on Godfrey. From the northern end of the neighbourhood, Cheltenham Avenue west and then down Ogontz works just as well and avoids the school traffic on Olney. About two miles and ten minutes either way. If you are collecting the car after work, ring first, because we close at five and are shut on Sunday.
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Sooner than you think, because the same road that made it will finish it. Concrete slab joints flex the screen at every seam, and a star that is stable at fifty degrees will run on the first freezing morning. A fill is $60 to $130 and about half an hour, and it works best while the chip is clean and dry inside. Once dirt and water have been driven into it for a fortnight, the repair is visible even when it holds. A replacement is $250 to $450.
Realistically, we can price it this evening and fit it tomorrow, because we shut at five. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model as soon as you find it, and the glass gets ordered that afternoon so it is here for the morning. Tape plastic over the opening for the drive home. Side glass is $200 to $500 fitted, and clearing the fragments out of the door and the seat runners is part of the job.
Yes, including the little fixed panes in the rear doors and the triangular quarter lights, which are the ones a lot of places would rather not bother with. They are at the lower end of the $200 to $500 range on most cars, but the part has to be right for the model and the side, so bring the details when you ring. If the glass has to be ordered you will be told when it lands rather than left to chase it.
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