Bronxville is a mile square and about six miles from our door, roughly fifteen minutes by the Cross County and the Hutch. Chip repairs run $60 to $150 and take half an hour, windshields are 60 to 90 minutes plus cure, and mobile visits cost the same as coming in.
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A village of one square mile does not leave much room for a glass shop, which is why Bronxville cars end up on Main Street in New Rochelle. It is a fifteen-minute run, and it is worth making for the reason people here usually call. The car is two or three years old, still on a lease, and the windshield has a crack the return inspection is going to notice. Deal with it before the hand-back and the charge disappears, which is a far cheaper piece of timing than most people expect.
The other thing we hear from 10708 is that the dealer quoted three weeks. That happens because franchise service calendars are full of scheduled maintenance and glass sits at the back of the queue. We are a glass shop and nothing else, so a windshield is not something we fit around other work. Order off the VIN, confirm the sensor package, set the pane, recalibrate the camera in house, finished inside the week at a price that is not carrying dealer labour rates.
Almost everything in Bronxville happens within a few blocks of Pondfield Road. The Metro-North station sits in the middle of the village on the Harlem Line, the shops run along Pondfield and Kraft Avenue, and parking there is metered and competitive at nearly any hour. Palmer Road and Midland Avenue carry traffic in from the edges, while the Bronx River Parkway and Cross County Parkway hem the village on two sides. Away from the centre the streets climb past stone and Tudor houses with narrow drives and garages built for cars a good deal smaller than the average SUV. Sarah Lawrence carries a Bronxville address and Lawrence Hospital sits in the village, so a small street network handles more daytime traffic than the population suggests. For mobile work that matters, because the usable space is usually a driveway rather than a kerbside spot.
“I ordered a replacement glass for a 28 × 8 frame. I was very happy the glass was under $8.00 and it was ready for pick up the following week. It was definitely cheaper to replace the glass than buy a new frame!”
The parkways do the damage and the village stores it up. Cross County and Bronx River are both old roads with tight lanes, low stone overpasses and constant traffic, and stone thrown off them is where most Bronxville chips begin. Because the village is compact, the car that took the hit then spends its week on short trips and metered blocks, where nothing about the driving would spread a crack, so the damage sits ignored until a cold morning and a hot defroster finish the job. Mature trees along the residential streets add branch strikes after storms, and cars parked tight to the curb on the narrow blocks pick up the occasional door-glass loss. Snow ploughed against parked cars in a village this tight does its share as well.
From Pondfield Road, take Palmer Road east to the Cross County Parkway, follow it to the Hutchinson River Parkway, then head south and come off at North Avenue in New Rochelle. North Avenue runs down to Main Street and we are in the 500 block, close to the station. That is about six miles and fifteen minutes in normal traffic. Meters sit in front of the shop and there is garage parking a block away, which is easier than what you are used to in the village. If the car cannot leave Bronxville, the van will meet it at the house or on a metered block.
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We can, but the meter is the limiting factor. A chip repair takes half an hour and fits comfortably. A windshield needs an hour of work and about another hour of cure after it, which is more time than most Bronxville meters allow. For anything beyond a chip, a driveway or a workplace lot is better, and if neither is available the shop is the simpler answer.
Not at all. We do not need the garage, only a level spot where the car is not boxed in and there is room to open the doors and work down one side. The apron in front of the garage is usually plenty. What we do need is dry weather for a windshield, because the urethane has to cure properly, so we will move a booking rather than set a pane in the rain.
Almost always. A fill runs $60 to $150 and often nothing at all once comprehensive is applied, because many policies waive the deductible on repairs. It keeps the original factory bond, needs no recalibration, and takes half an hour. Set against handing the car back with a spreading crack and taking an excess-wear charge, it is the cheapest half hour in the whole process.
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