A fitted windshield for a Whitman vehicle runs $250 to $450 at Russell's Auto Repair, 2640 Snyder Avenue - about ten minutes straight west along the same street you are already on. Plan on an hour in the bay plus the adhesive's safe drive-away time, and call before mid-morning if you want the car back the same day.
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Whitman takes its glass damage off the highway rather than off the side street. The I-95 ramps at Snyder and Oregon put local cars into 55 mph traffic within a block of home, and the freight coming off Columbus Boulevard and the terminal gates drops stone on the ramp shoulders that gets thrown straight back up by whatever is in front of you. Damage picked up that way lands hard and travels, which is why so many Whitman windshields arrive here as a crack running across the glass rather than a chip somebody caught in time.
Once it has run, the fix is new glass. We match the windshield to your car before you drive over, because a rain sensor, a heated wiper park, an aerial in the glass or a camera bracket behind the mirror all change which part fits - it is worth thirty seconds on the phone. The old screen comes out, the pinchweld is cleaned and primed, new mouldings and fresh urethane go in, and you leave with a specific safe drive-away time instead of a vague wait. The number quoted on the phone is the number you pay, and the installation carries a lifetime workmanship warranty 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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The run in from Whitman is the simplest of any neighbourhood we cover: Snyder Avenue is one continuous street, so whatever block you start on between Front and Moyamensing, you point the car west and stay on it until 2640. That matters more than it sounds when the screen is already cracked. A split that started at the Snyder ramp lengthens every time the body flexes, and a highway merge, a bridge approach or a night parked out in the wind off the Delaware will all do it. Two miles of city street at 25 mph will not. Come down Snyder first thing, leave the car, and collect it with the drive-away time already counted off.
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Usually, if the crack is out of your direct line of sight and the glass is not sagging or delaminating at the edge. The two-mile run west on Snyder Avenue is all city street, which is far kinder to a cracked screen than another lap of I-95. What we would not do is take a spidered windshield up the Walt Whitman Bridge approach - highway flex and wind pressure is exactly what turns a crack into a failure. If you are not comfortable moving it, the van can come to you instead.
Yes, but call early. Saturday hours are 8:30 to 4:00, and a replacement needs about an hour of fitting plus the adhesive's safe drive-away time before the car should be driven normally. Booking in the morning fits all of that inside the day. Arriving at half three on a Saturday usually means leaving the vehicle until Monday, since we are closed Sunday.
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