$60 to $130 and about thirty minutes fills most chips, and which kind you have decides how well it comes out. A bullseye, the clean round crater with a dark ring, fills close to invisibly. A star with legs radiating from a point fills well but leaves faint traces of the legs. A combination break, which is both at once, is the common one on Frankford Avenue and still repairs. Call 215-608-1108 and describe what you can see.
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Naming the break is not pedantry, it is how you predict the result. A bullseye is a cone-shaped separation with a clean edge, so resin flows into it easily and cures almost clear. A star break has fine legs running out from the impact point, and resin has to be pushed to the tip of each one under pressure; done early they close up well, but each leg leaves a hairline you can find in low sun. A combination break has both a crater and legs and is what most stone strikes at bus-and-truck speeds actually produce. A half-moon is a partial bullseye and behaves like one. What none of them do is stay put: every one of these has trapped air under it, and trapped air plus a flexing pane is a crack waiting for a cold morning.
The fill sequence does not change between types. The break is cleaned and dried out, the air is drawn off under vacuum so the resin has somewhere to go, resin is injected under pressure until it reaches the end of every leg, then cured hard with light and polished flush with the outer face. Thirty minutes, and the pane is structurally whole again. Two things ruin the outcome and both are about time: contamination, because water, salt and road film get into an open break within days, and growth, because a break that has run past a quarter or reached the edge is no longer a repair at all.
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Frankford supplies a specific flavor of chip damage, and it is the low-speed kind. Around the Transportation Center and along the bus routes into it, the stones that reach your windshield are being flicked up at twenty-five and thirty rather than fired off a highway, which tends to produce combination breaks and half-moons rather than long cracks. That is good news, because those are exactly the ones that fill well when they are fresh. The practical bit is that chip repair needs almost no room: the technician works from the front of the car, nothing is removed, nothing cures afterwards, so a normal curb space on a Frankford side street is enough. Rain is the only thing that stops it, and then the fifteen-minute run down Frankford Avenue solves it.
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Look at the center. If you can see a distinct round pit or a small cone with a dark ring around it and nothing much else, that is a bullseye. If there is a small impact point with fine lines running away from it like cracks in ice, that is a star. If there is both a pit and lines coming out of it, that is a combination, and it is the most common thing we see on cars that drive the bus routes. All three repair. What matters more than the name is the size and where it sits, so if you can, take a photo with something for scale before you call.
Yes, but not on a frozen windshield, and that is worth planning for in winter. Resin has to go into glass that is dry and above a working temperature, so a car that has been standing out overnight needs warming through first, which is quicker and more certain indoors than at the curb with the engine running. In practice that means winter chip work is often better done in the bay, and it is a half-hour visit either way. What you should not do is put it off until spring, because winter is precisely when a chip becomes a crack.
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