$250 to $450 fitted covers a windshield on most Packer Park vehicles, with roughly an hour of fitting and then the adhesive's safe drive-away time before the car is used normally. The shop is eight minutes north - up 20th Street or Broad to Snyder Avenue, then west. Common glass is on the shelf, so a morning call is usually a same-day car.
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Packer Avenue is why a lot of this neighbourhood's glass ends up here. The container terminal at its eastern end feeds a steady line of flatbeds and tippers through the same few blocks, and stone that works loose off a load at a light gets fired back up by whatever is following. Add Pattison and Broad on an event day, when tens of thousands of people arrive and leave through a handful of intersections, and Packer Park drivers spend a lot of time stopped and starting nose to tail behind a truck.
The vehicles here carry more equipment than the South Philly average, and that is the part worth getting right before you come over. Rain sensors, heated wiper parks, aerials laminated into the glass and camera brackets behind the mirror all change the part number, and a windshield ordered on the year and model alone is a coin toss on a newer car. Once the correct glass is in hand it is about an hour of work: old screen out, pinchweld cleaned and primed, new mouldings and fresh urethane in, then a stated safe drive-away time. The price you were given on the phone is the price at the end, and the workmanship is warranted for as long as you own the vehicle.
“Clearly a community place. Really nice and responsive. Fixed my windshield by far for the cheapest price. The initial install was bad and I had leaking... so I went back again and they installed another new windshield! Very glad they remedied the mistake and saved me some money.”
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Packer Park is one of the few places in South Philadelphia where a fresh windshield can cure somewhere sensible. Between the townhouse blocks off Hartranft and Curtin and the newer developments toward Pattison, a real share of homes here have a driveway or a garage, and that changes the advice. Keep the car off the street for the first day if you can, leave a window down an inch so cabin pressure has somewhere to go, and close the doors rather than slamming them, because pressure is what moves fresh urethane. The other bit of local timing: we are closed Sunday, so a home date at the Linc or the Bank is not a day to plan glass around anyway. Weekday mornings are quiet on Broad and quiet in the bay.
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That is the usual Packer Park pattern. The shop opens at 8:30, the drive up Broad or 20th is under ten minutes at that hour, and the fitting takes about an hour. Most people leave the car, carry on south, and collect it in the afternoon with the safe drive-away time long since counted off.
It changes which windshield you need - the glass has to carry the correct bracket and the right optical zone for the camera to see through. Tell us it is there when you call so the correct part is ordered rather than a generic one. Vehicles with driver assistance systems generally also need that camera recalibrated after the glass is changed, which is worth planning for rather than discovering afterwards.
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