Harrison is twelve to fifteen minutes down I-95 from the shop, and a chip repair takes half an hour while you wait. Most cost $60 to $150 and comprehensive cover frequently pays the whole thing. We also fill chips in Purchase office lots while the car sits there anyway.
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If you commute on I-95 you will collect chips. The stretch through Harrison carries heavy freight between the bridges and the Connecticut line all day, following distances shrink at every merge, and stone comes off truck tyres at speed. Treating each break as it happens is the strategy that keeps you out of the replacement bracket, and at $60 to $150 with insurance frequently covering it, the maths is straightforward.
The repair takes about thirty minutes. The break is cleaned, a vacuum bridge draws the trapped air from every leg, optical resin is pressed in under pressure and cured hard with ultraviolet light, then the surface is polished flush. Nothing is cut and nothing is unbonded, so you drive away immediately and no camera recalibration is needed. That last point is worth weighing on a newer car. A repair keeps the original glass and the original camera aim. A replacement changes both and brings a calibration appointment along with it. The other advantage is scheduling. A chip does not tie up a bay, so we can normally fit one in the same day you ring rather than putting you in a queue behind larger jobs, and the car never leaves your possession for longer than half an hour.
“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!”
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Harrison is the one town we cover where the sensible plan is often to have us come to the car rather than the other way round. The Purchase side puts thousands of vehicles into large open lots for the working day, between the Westchester Avenue corporate campuses and the college, and a car that will not move between eight and six is a car that can have its glass sorted without anyone losing time. Chip repair is the ideal candidate for that because there is no adhesive and no cure. Downtown around Halstead Avenue works differently, with the station lots full by eight and a quick run down I-95 available to anyone who is driving anyway. We do both, at the same price, and the trip costs nothing extra inside our normal range.
Same service, same price, other New Rochelle neighborhoods:
Usually yes, provided the lot permits it and your space is reachable. We need a dry half hour and access to the front of the car. What we cannot do is block a lane or set up somewhere the lot manager has not been told about, so send us the lot and the space number when you book and we will confirm it before the day rather than turning up hopeful.
Almost certainly not. It is a function of the road rather than the windshield. Heavy freight traffic on I-95 at speed will find any car that spends time behind it, and the run through Harrison is one of the busiest stretches in the region. What helps is following distance and, honestly, filling each break as it happens so none of them ever becomes a full replacement.
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