Five minutes, roughly a mile and a half across from Stenton Avenue to 6800 Ogontz Avenue. Chip fills are $60 to $130 and take about half an hour, so plenty of people from these blocks wait for it. Windshields are $250 to $450 fitted and normally a morning drop-off. Door, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500. Open 9 to 5 Monday to Saturday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Stenton is defined by its avenue, and the avenue is a truck route. Stenton Avenue is the road people use to get from Germantown out to the county line without touching Broad Street, so it carries buses, box trucks and everything cutting through, on a surface that never gets more than a few months between one utility trench and the next. Sitting behind a loaded vehicle on that road with the kerb lane in the state it is in is how a good share of the windshields on these blocks pick up their first mark.
Step off the avenue and it is a different world within thirty yards. The residential streets are narrow rows, parked nose to tail both sides, some of them tight enough that a car passing a parked one has to fold a mirror to do it. Nothing here has a driveway, so every car is out all night on a street where the lighting is patchy. That combination gives us the two jobs we see most from Stenton: mirror and quarter glass caught by traffic threading through in daylight, and door windows gone by morning. Neither has to be a week-long saga. Ring 215-608-1108, get the price, and for most cars the glass is here the same day.
Stenton Avenue runs on the diagonal through the middle of it, four lanes in stretches and two in others, a bus route and a truck route, with Chelten Avenue crossing at one end and Washington Lane at the other. Chew Avenue runs parallel to the east, closer to us, and the numbered avenues thread across between the two. The rows off the avenue are narrow one-way streets with kerb parking on both sides, short blocks and frequent corners, which keeps speeds low but leaves almost no clearance. The avenue itself is the problem surface: repeatedly trenched for utilities, patched in strips rather than resurfaced, and cambered hard toward the kerb so that any loose material collects exactly where the traffic runs.
“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!!”
Top of the list, and specific to this pocket: passing damage on the side streets. Streets this narrow, parked solid both sides, mean mirrors and quarter lights get taken off by delivery vans and anyone who misjudges the gap, usually in daylight and usually without a note left. Second, break-ins overnight, because nothing here parks off-street and the lighting is uneven block to block. Third, stone thrown off Stenton Avenue, which carries the heaviest local traffic over the worst local surface. Fourth, winter. A row-house car with no garage freezes solid every cold night, and the scraper and the defroster between them finish off chips that had been sitting quietly since the autumn.
From anywhere on Stenton Avenue, take Washington Lane east: it crosses Chew Avenue and runs straight into Ogontz Avenue, and we are up at 68th. From the Chelten Avenue end, come across the grid on 66th or 68th Avenue instead. From the Germantown side of the avenue, stay on Stenton until Washington Lane and turn there rather than trying to cut through the rows, which are one-way and will send you the long way round. A mile and a half, five minutes, all surface streets. Plenty of people from these blocks drop the car and walk back for it.
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It is one of the commonest jobs off these streets. If the housing is intact and the glass is what shattered, it is a quick fix and the cheap end of the $200 to $500 band. Bring the car in rather than describing it over the phone, because the mounting varies enormously between models and it is a thirty-second look to tell you whether it is glass alone. If the whole assembly is broken away from the door, we will tell you that too rather than sell you something that will not hold.
For a chip fill, yes: about half an hour, and it is $60 to $130. For a side window, it depends on whether the glass is already here, so ring first. For a windshield, waiting is not the plan. It is roughly an hour of fitting plus a specific safe drive-away time before the adhesive will hold the screen properly, and since you are only five minutes away it makes more sense to leave it and come back for it the same afternoon.
Usually more worth it than on a new one, because the alternative costs proportionally more. A fill is $60 to $130 and stops the damage spreading; a replacement on the same car is $250 to $450. On a road diet of Stenton Avenue, the patched surface, and freezing nights on the street, a chip on an older screen tends to run within a season rather than sit. If the mark is smaller than a quarter and not directly in your eyeline, it is worth the half hour.
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