Lincoln Avenue runs straight from Mount Vernon to us, twelve to fifteen minutes. A chip repair takes about thirty minutes with you waiting and costs $60 to $150, commonly nothing at all under comprehensive cover. The car is ready to drive the moment we finish.
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For a car that lives on the street, a chip repair is the ideal job. There is no adhesive, so there is no cure time and no window where the vehicle cannot be moved. Half an hour after you arrive you are driving away, back on your block before the parking rules change. That is not true of a replacement, which needs about an hour of cure on top of the fit.
The work is the same wherever the car sleeps. We clean the break, draw the trapped air out with a vacuum bridge, press optical resin into every leg under pressure, cure it hard with ultraviolet light and polish the surface flush. The strength comes back and the spread stops. What we will not do is fill something that should not be filled. If the break is in your direct line of sight, longer than about six inches, or running off the edge of the glass, the honest answer is a replacement and you will hear it before we start rather than after. Where we can fill it, the price is $60 to $150 and most comprehensive policies cover the repair with nothing out of pocket, so plenty of these cost the customer nothing.
“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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Overnight street parking is what turns Mount Vernon chips into cracks, and it does it faster than most people expect. A car behind a house is buffered. A car on a numbered street takes the full drop to a February night and then the full shock of a defroster on high at seven in the morning, and glass that already has a break in it does not enjoy that cycle. The chips themselves mostly come from the Cross County Parkway, an older road with concrete sections carrying constant traffic across the city, and from Sandford Boulevard where delivery and construction vehicles pull in and out of retail lots all day. Neither is dramatic. Both produce exactly the sort of small break that resin handles well if you get to it.
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We open at eight on weekdays and nine on Saturday, and a chip is the easiest thing to slot into the start of the day since it does not tie up a bay for long. Turn up when we open and you will usually be away inside forty minutes. If you want certainty, ring ahead the day before and we will keep the time free for you.
Yes, and arguably more so. On an older vehicle a full windshield replacement is a larger share of what the car is worth, so preventing one has real value. The glass is still structural regardless of the age of the vehicle, and a filled break is a stronger windshield than an open one. At $60 to $150 it is the cheapest maintenance decision available on the car.
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