About twelve minutes down Kensington Avenue and Frankford Avenue. Broken side and rear windows are most of what comes out of Harrowgate: $200–$500 fitted, usually same day or the next morning, with the glass cleared out of the door and the seat rails as part of the job rather than as an extra. Chip fills are $60–$130 and half an hour. A windshield is $250–$450 fitted. The bay runs 8 to 5, Monday through Friday. Call 215-608-1108.
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Harrowgate lives under the El. Kensington Avenue runs through the middle of it with the elevated structure overhead, and the street below is stop-start all day: buses pulling in, delivery trucks double-parked, everybody else edging around both. The blocks either side are rowhouses with no off-street parking at all, so people park where they can and leave the car there for days. Between the traffic under the structure and the density of cars on the side streets, this is a neighborhood where glass gets broken more often than it gets chipped.
That shapes the calls we take. The typical Harrowgate job is a side or rear window that went overnight, found at six in the morning with tempered glass through the seats and down inside the door. That is $200–$500 fitted, most of it available same day or next morning, and the clean-up — including the fragments inside the door skin, where they hide and rattle for years if they are left — is part of the work. The second most common is a windshield that has been cracked for months on a car that gets driven anyway. Nobody is going to be lectured about that. The only real question is whether it can still be filled at $60–$130 or has gone past it, and that answer comes on the phone.
Kensington Avenue is the spine, carrying the El overhead, buses beneath it and a more or less permanent line of double-parked vehicles. The structure keeps the road below in shade, so the surface stays wet longer and the potholes around the column bases come back every winter however often they are patched. Allegheny Avenue crosses it as a truck route between the river terminals and I-95. Tioga Street and Torresdale Avenue take the traffic that wants nothing to do with either, and Frankford Avenue runs down the far side of the neighborhood. The side streets are narrow, one-way and parked solid on both sides, with paving that has been trenched and patched so many times it reads as a mosaic.
“My car was broken into and one window was completely shattered. Rich gave me a quote right away and was able to replace it the next morning at a very reasonable price. He also cleaned up all the glass that I didn’t get a chance to clean up before dropping off my car. I had a great experience and I would definitely recommend using his business for window replacements”
Broken side and rear windows are the single biggest category here, and it is not a close-run thing — cars sit unattended on blocks with a lot of foot traffic, and a tempered pane is a two-second job for anyone who wants what is on the seat. Second is the road under and around the El: standing water, patched trenches and potholes at the column bases hit hard enough to run a crack that had been sitting still. Third is truck traffic on Allegheny, which throws stone and grit at any car sharing the route. Fourth is time. More than anywhere else on this list, the glass we see from Harrowgate has been broken for a while, and a chip that could have been filled in October is a replacement by February.
Kensington Avenue southwest under the El to Front Street, then Girard Avenue east to Frankford Avenue and up to Columbia — about twelve minutes. Frankford Avenue does the same trip as a single road if you are on that side of the neighborhood. If a window is out and the weather is bad, tape a plastic sheet or a bin liner over the opening from the inside, edge to edge, before you drive anywhere. Do not vacuum the car out first: that drives glass deeper into the door and the seat runners, and clearing it properly is part of what you are paying for.
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Cover the opening from the inside with plastic and tape, edge to edge, so the car is dry and nobody reaches through it. Leave the glass where it is. Then call 215-608-1108 with the year, make and model and say which window it is — door, quarter or back. Door and back glass runs $200–$500 fitted and is frequently same day or next morning, because tempered panes for common cars are held locally. The bay is 8 to 5 on weekdays, so a Friday night break-in is a Monday morning job.
Yes, and you should. The year, make and model settle nearly all of it, and the VIN settles the rest on a windshield where a sensor or a camera bracket could change the part. You get a firm number on the call, before anything is ordered, and it does not move while the car is in the bay. If what you describe turns out to be repairable rather than replaceable, you will be told that too — it is a cheaper job for you and a shorter one for us.
That is your call, but here are the numbers to make it with. A door or back window is $200–$500 fitted. Driving with plastic taped over the gap costs you a wet interior, a car anybody can reach into, and an inspection problem. A cracked windshield across the driver's side is an inspection failure in its own right and a real hazard at night, when the crack scatters oncoming headlights. If the car is worth keeping on the road at all, glass is usually the cheapest part of keeping it there.
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