About thirty minutes and $60 to $150, either in our bay ten minutes east on Bruckner Boulevard or at your kerb in Mott Haven. Many comprehensive policies waive the deductible on repairs, so a good number of drivers here pay nothing out of pocket at all.
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The bridge approaches keep this service busy in Mott Haven. Willis Avenue, Third Avenue and Madison Avenue all funnel traffic across steel plates and torn-up joints, and the truck ahead of you lifts stone off that surface at exactly the speed where it stars a windshield. You often hear the hit and see nothing until the sun catches the pit two days later. A break in the lower third of the glass, away from your line of sight, is the ideal candidate for a fill, and that is where most bridge-thrown stones land.
Dealing with it early is the cheapest thing you will ever do to a car. Resin goes into the break under vacuum, cures under UV, and the damage stops travelling. The glass keeps its factory bond, so nothing needs recalibrating and nothing gets cut out. Set that against the several hundred a replacement costs on the same vehicle and the case makes itself. Two or three separate chips can normally be handled in one visit without tripling the bill, and you are not waiting on parts, because resin is not a part. Bring the car by during shop hours and you are usually back out before the parking meter needs feeding again.
“We went here today, a cold Sunday afternoon, after the right rear window was broken into. They were well-priced, the staff was friendly, and they worked fast! My new go-to spot for this type of emergency!”
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Timing is what beats people here, and the timing that beats them is winter. A car parked outdoors on Alexander Avenue or one of the numbered blocks drops to freezing overnight. In the morning the owner starts it, turns the defroster to high, and heats the inside face of the glass while the outside is still cold. That difference across an existing chip is what turns it into a foot of crack in a single commute. If you have a chip now and there is a cold snap in the forecast, that is the week to deal with it, because the repair costs a fraction of what the replacement will cost you in February. We would much rather book the small job.
Same service, same price, other Bronx neighborhoods:
Probably not. Age on its own does not rule a repair out, as long as the break has not started to run and the pit has not filled solid with road grime and wax. We clean the damage out before injecting anything, which handles most of that. What does rule it out is spreading, so if you can see legs growing off the star, get it looked at this week rather than next month.
Yes, and there is no extra charge for coming out to Mott Haven. A chip fill is one of the easiest jobs to do at the kerb, since nothing has to be cut out and nothing needs to cure for an hour afterwards. We need the glass reasonably dry and a legal spot to work from. Give us the block and a cross street and we will confirm a slot.
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| Sunday | Closed |