Point Breeze is six or seven minutes from the bay, straight out Wharton or Tasker to 26th Street, and a windshield is $250 to $450 fitted with about an hour of work before the safe drive-away time. Call with the year, make and model and the glass is confirmed for your car before you make the drive, so the trip happens once.
4.1★ on Google — 137+ reviews
Half the blocks in this neighbourhood have a job going on somewhere, and it shows up in the glass. Skips at the kerb, contractor pickups with loose gear in the bed, brick dust and grit tracked out of a gutted rowhouse and onto the road, offcuts that end up under a tyre. Washington Avenue adds the other half of the problem: it is the heavy route across the top of the neighbourhood, and anything that falls off a load there gets flung by the next vehicle through. Most Point Breeze windshields we replace did not fail all at once. They took a stone in the autumn and finished the job over a cold weekend.
When the pane has to come out, the sequence is the same every time and none of it is skipped for speed. The old glass is cut free, the pinchweld is trimmed back to a clean bed and primed rather than left as bare metal to rust under the new bond, and the urethane goes down as one unbroken bead. New mouldings, not the old ones. If your car has a rain sensor, a heated wiper park or a camera bracket behind the mirror, that changes which pane is correct, so it is worth mentioning when you ring rather than discovering it when the wrong glass is unwrapped. Then you get a specific safe drive-away time, not a vague wait.
“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.”
More on this service: Windshield Replacement at Russell's Auto Repair →
Point Breeze is the clearest case in our area for doing a windshield in the bay rather than at the kerb. The residential streets here are properly narrow, several of the little ones between Wharton and Tasker barely take a car and a walking adult side by side, and almost nothing has off-street parking. A windshield fitting needs both front doors open, clear access across the whole cowl and up both A-pillars, and a dry, undisturbed hour for the urethane. On Titan or Gerritt Street, with cars nose to tail and a work van coming through, none of that is available. Ten minutes of driving buys a covered bay and a cure that is not competing with the block.
Same service, same price, other South Philadelphia neighborhoods:
No, and the instinct is understandable but backwards. A cracked windshield gets worse every week regardless of what is happening outside, and a crack that reaches the edge of the glass takes the cheaper options off the table for good. The dust from a nearby job does not harm a properly cured new windshield. What it can do is settle into an unfilled chip and make a future repair cloudier, which is an argument for dealing with damage sooner rather than later.
West on Wharton or Tasker to 25th or 26th Street, then down to Snyder Avenue at 2640, six or seven minutes on a normal morning. You are not fighting for a residential permit space at this end, which is the main thing people worry about. Come in the morning if you can: the bay works through the day and an early drop gives you the best chance of driving away the same afternoon rather than leaving the car overnight.
Tell us the vehicle and the glass that's damaged — you'll see your price instantly, and we'll hold it for you.
Odd job the widget can't price? Send us the details and a human will quote it fast.
The instant quote is the fastest way to a price. For unusual jobs, fleet work, or anything that needs a human, use the form — we answer fast during shop hours.
| Monday – Friday | 08:30 – 17:30 |
| Saturday | 08:30 – 16:00 |