Two miles, about ten minutes, west along Cheltenham Avenue to Ogontz. Melrose Park sits directly over the city line from us, so the shop at 6800 Ogontz Avenue is closer than most places you would drive to for a windshield. Fitted windshields are $250 to $450, chip fills $60 to $130 in half an hour, and door, quarter or back glass $200 to $500, usually same day for common cars. Call 215-608-1108.
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Melrose Park lives on Old York Road, and Old York Road is where its glass gets damaged. The stretch through here is a busy retail run with lots opening off both sides, buses working the kerb lane and traffic constantly braking to turn in, and the surface takes a beating from the volume of it. Follow anything with dual wheels along there for half a mile and you will collect grit; follow a truck and you will collect something you can hear land. Most windshield damage on cars from this side of the township starts on that road rather than out on a highway.
The second source is the parking lots that go with it. Supermarket and strip-mall parking is where mirrors get clipped, quarter lights get caught by a trolley or a badly judged reverse, and the occasional smash-and-grab happens in broad daylight because nobody looks twice at someone leaning into a car. The houses themselves are comfortable on this score: driveways, garages on the older streets, and cars off the road overnight. So Melrose Park work skews toward the visible and immediate: something happened today, and you want it dealt with today. Ring 215-608-1108, and for common vehicles it usually is.
Old York Road runs through the middle on the diagonal, four lanes with retail frontage, turning traffic and bus stops the length of it, heading north toward Elkins Park and south into the city. Cheltenham Avenue crosses at the bottom and marks the county line, which is the road we sit off. Ashbourne Road and Valley Road cut across the residential grid, and the Melrose Park station on the regional line sits just off York Road with its own small commuter car park. Behind the commercial strip the streets are quiet and short, kerbed and tree-lined, with driveways at almost every house. That contrast, half a mile of heavy four-lane traffic and then immediate suburban quiet, is what makes the damage pattern here so lopsided toward the main 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, Old York Road. Loaded vehicles, constant braking and turning, a patched kerb lane and short following distances add up to more stone strikes per mile than anything else around here. Two, retail car parks: trolleys, door edges, tight bays and reversing out blind account for a steady flow of mirror glass and quarter lights. Three, opportunist break-ins in those same lots, usually in daylight and usually a passenger window rather than a driver one. Four, the slow burn: a garaged or driveway car hides a chip for months of freezing nights and hot mornings until it runs across the screen without warning. Five, storm limbs on the quieter residential streets, which take out a rear screen once or twice a season.
Cheltenham Avenue west is the whole journey. Come down to it from Old York Road or Ashbourne Road, turn west, cross Broad Street, and carry on to Ogontz Avenue; turn down Ogontz and follow it to 68th Avenue. It is two miles from most Melrose Park addresses and around ten minutes unless York Road is backed up at the lights. If it is, drop to Cheltenham Avenue on Valley Road instead and pick it up further west. For a windshield, morning drop-off is best: an hour of work plus a real safe drive-away time, and the car is normally ready in the afternoon.
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For most vehicles, yes. Ring 215-608-1108 as soon as you can with the year, make and model; if the glass is not already here it is usually available from local suppliers within hours. It is $200 to $500 fitted. Drive it in with plastic taped over the opening if you can, and leave the mess alone. Fragments work their way into the door skin and the window channel, and getting them out from inside the door is part of the job.
About an hour to fit, then safe drive-away time before the adhesive has enough strength to hold the glass in a hard stop. You are told the specific figure for the day rather than a shrug, and it depends on the product and the weather. In practice most Melrose Park customers drop the car mid-morning and collect it in the afternoon. It is a ten-minute run each way, so it is not the sort of job that needs a hire car.
Yes. A rear screen with a heating element or an aerial printed into it has to be matched properly rather than substituted, which is why we want the year, make and model up front. It is inside the $200 to $500 band. The other thing to expect is the cleanup: a rear screen scatters the length of the cabin, so the parcel shelf, the boot and the back seat all get cleared as part of the price rather than handed back to you full of glass.
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