Six miles and about twenty minutes down Old York Road, or book the van instead. Jenkintown is one of our outer areas, so the practical choice is a mobile visit or a planned drive to 6800 Ogontz Avenue. Side, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500 fitted, a windshield is $250 to $450, and a chip fill is $60 to $130 and half an hour. Open 9 to 5 Monday to Saturday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Jenkintown is small, dense and busy in a way the townships around it are not. The borough packs a proper downtown into a few blocks: York Road running through the middle with shops right up to the pavement, kerbside and lot parking that fills by mid-morning, and side streets of twins and rows where a driveway is a luxury rather than a given. That mix produces borough-scale glass problems. Cars parked tight to each other and to moving traffic lose mirrors and quarter lights; cars left on the street overnight occasionally lose a window.
It is also a commuter borough, with the interchange station bringing cars in from the surrounding townships and leaving them standing all day. Between that, the downtown parking and the volume on York Road itself, most of what we are called out for in Jenkintown is sudden rather than gradual: something broke today. Because the drive is a genuine twenty minutes each way, the van earns its keep here. Ring 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model, and you will get the price, whether the glass is on hand, and whether it makes more sense for us to come to you or for you to plan a morning at the shop.
Old York Road is the spine, running north to south through the middle of the borough with the commercial blocks either side of it and traffic lights close enough together to keep everything stop-start. West Avenue and Greenwood Avenue cross it, Runnymede Avenue and the lanes off it hold the older housing, and Township Line Road marks the edge toward Abington. The Jenkintown-Wyncote station sits on the western side with a substantial commuter car park attached. The borough is compact enough that nothing is more than a few minutes from York Road, but the streets are correspondingly narrow, the parking is at a premium, and the older blocks have kerbside parking rather than driveways, which is unusual for this side of the county line.
“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 downtown squeeze. Narrow blocks, kerbside parking against moving traffic and busy delivery hours make mirror glass and quarter lights the most common jobs we do in the borough. Two, York Road stone: heavy volume, constant braking, and a surface that carries loose material because there is nowhere for it to go. Three, the commuter car park at the station, where cars stand from breakfast to dinner and a broken window may not be discovered for nine hours. Four, the winter routine on street-parked cars, which is more of a factor here than in the surrounding townships precisely because so many Jenkintown cars sleep outside. Five, storm limbs on the residential lanes.
Old York Road south is the simple version: through Elkins Park and Melrose Park to Cheltenham Avenue, west across Broad Street to Ogontz Avenue, then down Ogontz to 68th. Six miles and about twenty minutes, longer if York Road is stacked at the lights. The alternative that avoids most of that is Washington Lane: pick it up on the western side of the borough, run south through Wyncote and across Cheltenham Avenue, and it takes you to Ogontz directly. If neither drive appeals, ask about the van when you ring and we will find a slot at your house or your workplace.
Ogontz Glass & Mirror Co works across West Oak Lane and the surrounding towns — pick your neighborhood:
Usually, if the space works and whoever runs the lot is happy. What the van needs is a marked bay with room beside it, a level surface and no low clearance bar overhead. What it cannot do is work in a tight underground deck or in the middle of a downpour. Tell us where the car will be when you ring 215-608-1108 and you will get a straight yes or no rather than a technician turning up and improvising.
If it is the mirror glass, yes, and it is at the cheap end of the $200 to $500 range on most cars. If the impact broke the housing or the arm off the door, that is a different part and sometimes a body shop job, and we will tell you which it is rather than fitting glass into something that will not hold it. Photograph what is left before you drive it, and bring the broken pieces with you if they came away with the car.
The glass costs the same either way; the difference is the visit, and you will be told the total either way before you commit. What usually decides it in Jenkintown is time rather than money, because the drive is twenty minutes each way and a windshield is an hour of work plus safe drive-away time on top. If you can spare the morning, the shop is straightforward. If you cannot, the van is why we cover the borough.
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