$200 to $500 fitted covers door glass, quarter panes, vent windows, back glass, hatch glass and sunroof panels. Hatch glass is the one that catches people out, because on many cars it carries the wiper spindle, the third brake light aperture, the defroster grid and often the aerial, and every one of those varies within a model. Call 215-608-1108 with the VIN and it is matched before anything is ordered. Frankford is about fifteen minutes from the bay.
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Frankford was laid out long before the grid reached it, which is why so many of its streets meet at angles rather than corners and why the older blocks are narrower than anything built later. Reversing out of a tight angled space with a car behind you and a wall beside you is where a lot of the damage in this neighborhood comes from, and it is nearly always the same panes: a rear quarter window scraped along a wall, a vent pane in the front corner of a door caught on a gatepost, a hatch clipped on something while it was standing open. It is slow-speed damage, none of it stops the car working, and that is exactly why it gets left for a season.
Hatch glass deserves the detail. On a hatchback or a small SUV the rear pane is doing several jobs at once: it is bonded or bolted into a panel that swings, it usually carries a heated grid, it very often carries the rear wiper motor spindle passing through it, and on plenty of cars the radio aerial is printed into it. Fit a pane that is right in shape but wrong in specification and you get a hatch that closes perfectly with no demist, no wiper or no radio. That is why the VIN comes first. After fitting, tempered cubes have to come out of the trunk well, the spare wheel pan and the trim channels, because glass left in a tailgate rattles for the life of the car.
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Off-street parking is scarce on the older Frankford blocks, so when a rear pane or a hatch has to come out, the car normally needs to be somewhere it can be opened fully and left open for a while. On an angled street parked solid, with a car sitting close behind, that is not going to happen at the curb, and a half-open tailgate is not a job we will start. Door glass and vent panes are the opposite and get done wherever the car stands. So the split for Frankford is straightforward: front-of-car and side-of-car work comes to you, rear work goes down Frankford Avenue to the bay, where the tailgate can stand wide open as long as it needs to and the trunk well gets emptied properly.
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No, it makes it a job where the part number has to be right. A hatch pane with a wiper spindle hole is a distinct part from the same pane without one, and it can also differ by whether there is a defroster grid, where the third brake light sits and whether the aerial is printed into the glass. All of that comes off the VIN. Once the correct pane is in hand the fitting is ordinary work, and the wiper motor and arm transfer across. What we will not do is fit a near-enough pane and leave you to discover the difference.
Yes, and for back glass and hatches that is usually what we suggest anyway. The bay is a straight run down Frankford Avenue, about fifteen minutes, and it gives us the room to open the tailgate right up, work from both sides and get a vacuum into the trunk well and the spare wheel pan properly. Bring the car in the morning if you can, since the bay runs eight to five Monday through Friday, and call 215-608-1108 with the VIN first so the pane is already confirmed and waiting rather than being looked up while you sit there.
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