From Pelham it is eight to ten minutes to us on the Boston Post Road, and a chip repair takes about thirty minutes once you arrive. Most cost $60 to $150, and comprehensive policies frequently cover repair with nothing out of pocket. You wait, then you drive off straight away.
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This is the errand worth doing on a Saturday morning. Pelham to Main Street is a short run, the repair is done while you wait, and there is no cure time to sit through afterwards because nothing has been unbonded. The break gets vacuumed clear, filled with optical resin under pressure, cured with ultraviolet light and polished level with the glass.
What makes it worth doing quickly rather than eventually is the lease question, which comes up constantly in Pelham. A great many cars here are on three-year cycles, and at hand-back an inspector notes glass damage as a chargeable item. A chip that has been properly filled is not a replaced windshield and it is not damage sitting on the report either. Deal with it at $60 to $150 while it is small and you have removed the problem entirely. Leave it through a winter of cold mornings and hot defrosters and the same break becomes a crack, which means a full pane, which on a car with a camera behind the mirror also means a calibration. We will also tell you plainly when a break is past filling, because a repair that fails is worse than no repair at all.
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Most Pelham chips arrive from one of two places. The Hutchinson River Parkway runs along the western edge of the village, an old parkway with narrow lanes and stone bridges where following distances collapse in commuter traffic, and stone coming off the car ahead at that speed is a classic star break. The Boston Post Road through Pelham Manor supplies the slower version, with delivery traffic and constant turning movements into the shopping plaza. What is particular to Pelham is the parking. Village driveways are short and garages are narrow, so a lot of cars sit outside overnight even at houses that technically have a garage, and glass that takes the full swing from a cold night to a warm cabin is glass where a stable chip suddenly is not stable any more.
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No, quite the opposite. A repaired chip is not recorded as a replaced windshield, and it is not left sitting on the inspection sheet as unrepaired damage either. Inspectors look for cracks, chips in the driver's view and glass that is not to specification. A properly filled break is none of those. It is the cheapest way to close out a glass item before hand-back, and it takes half an hour.
It is priced per chip, so three breaks cost more than one, but the second and third are quicker than the first because the car is already set up and the equipment is out. Send us a photo and we will give you the total before you drive down. If the breaks are close enough together that the glass between them is compromised, we will tell you that honestly and talk about a replacement instead.
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