$250 to $450 buys a fitted windshield on most cars and light trucks here, with the pane, the adhesive, the moldings and the work all inside that figure and nothing added afterwards. The car is generally in and out of the bay within an hour, but it is the cure that follows, not the fitting, that sets when you can drive it — and you are told that release time when you book. Ogontz Glass & Mirror is at 6800 Ogontz Avenue, 9 to 5 six days a week. Read the VIN to 215-608-1108 and the price is fixed before a pane is ordered.
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Most of the first clock is spent on the frame rather than the pane. A bonded windshield is part of the body shell: it braces the roof if the car ever goes over, and it is the surface the passenger airbag deploys against on its way out. So the old urethane is pared back to a thin, level bed instead of being scraped to bright metal, which only opens fresh places for corrosion to start, and anywhere the blade has cut through to steel gets primed before a new bead goes anywhere near it. Moldings and clips are renewed rather than persuaded back into position, because a hardened molding is where wind noise begins. None of that survives being looked at once the glass is in, which is precisely why it is the part people get short-changed on, and two winters of salt off Cheltenham Avenue finds every millimeter that somebody skipped.
The second clock belongs to chemistry. Urethane needs a set number of minutes before it can hold a windshield through a crash, and that number stretches as the temperature falls — a raw February morning on the avenue is not an August afternoon, and pretending otherwise is how people end up driving on a bond that has not got there yet. Ordering runs on the same footing. Glass for the cars that fill these streets sits on a regional shelf a short drive away, but shade bands, acoustic laminate, rain sensors, heated wiper parks and camera brackets each split one model into several part numbers, so the build is read off the VIN before anything is ordered. Where a car needs its forward camera re-aimed once the new glass is in, that gets said while you are still deciding rather than after the old pane is out.
“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!!”
Anything bonded in here that later leaks, whistles or lifts a trim edge comes back to the avenue and gets sorted out. That is the shop's own word rather than a printed document, and it is the kind that costs something to give.
Winter in this corner of the city goes after the opening long before it goes after the glass. Brine thrown up along Ogontz, Stenton and Cheltenham Avenues gathers in the cowl channel under the wiper arms and sits against the bottom edge of the windshield aperture for months at a time. Steel left bare down there — a scratch from a cut-out blade, a paint chip nobody primed — corrodes underneath the adhesive where nobody can see it happening, and a bead is only ever as strong as whatever it is stuck to. Then add what the road does: sunken utility patches and settled trench lines along the avenue flex the shell a little at a time, and a pane sitting on a compromised bond creeps a fraction each season until air starts whistling past the A-pillar at Roosevelt Boulevard speeds. Windshield jobs are won or lost on the frame.
It is stamped at the base of the windshield on the driver's side and printed on the door jamb label. From it we can see whether your car takes a shade band, a sensor, a heated park or a camera bracket, and price the exact pane over the phone on 215-608-1108.
6800 Ogontz Avenue, 9 to 5 Monday through Saturday, closed Sunday. The fitting runs about an hour, and most people hand the keys over and find something to do nearby instead of sitting in the shop for it.
You leave with a release time rather than a vague wait. Until it passes, close the doors gently, leave a window cracked so pressure has somewhere to go, and keep it out of a car wash for a day or two.
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Updated September 2026 · Ogontz Glass & Mirror Co, Philadelphia, PA
The pane itself, mostly. A basic pane on a high-volume sedan is the cheapest thing we fit. What lifts it is glass that has to do more than keep the weather out: acoustic laminate, a heated wiper park, a solar or shade band, a bracket for a camera, or simply the size of a van or older pickup screen. Read the VIN to 215-608-1108 and the range collapses into one figure for your car.
Either works, though most people drop it. The glass work itself is about an hour, and then there is cure time on top before the windshield is doing its structural job again. Waiting for both in the shop is a long morning. The counter is open 9 to 5 Monday through Saturday, and we call as soon as the release time is up.
It changes the part number and it may add a recalibration. Glass for a car with a forward-facing camera or a rain sensor carries the matching bracket and mounting, and on a lot of models the camera has to be re-aimed afterwards for lane keeping and automatic braking to read the road correctly. That gets checked off the VIN and quoted up front, so it is never a line you meet at the end.
The transponder does — it comes off the old glass and goes back on the new one in the same spot, along with the mirror, its shroud and any dash camera mount. Pennsylvania inspection and emissions stickers are bonded to the pane they were issued on and will not survive removal, so budget on having them reissued. Say if yours is close to expiry and we will flag the timing before you book.
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