Fifteen minutes up Route 9 or Wrangle Hill Road. Delaware City sits at the eastern mouth of the canal, and the two things that decide glass work here are refinery truck traffic and salt air. Chip repairs are $60 to $130 for about half an hour of work, windshields $250 to $450 fitted, and a broken door, quarter or back window $200 to $500 with the cleanup included. The shop is 23 Parkway Circle, New Castle, open weekdays 8 to 5. Call 215-608-1108.
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Delaware City is a small town living next to very large industry. A few hundred yards of old grid, Clinton Street running down to the water and the streets crossing it, sits alongside the canal, the marina and the boat out to Fort Delaware, and just beyond that is the refinery with the road network that serves it. Almost nobody here has a long commute inside the town, but plenty of people work shifts a few minutes away, which means cars are parked outside for eight or twelve hours at a stretch and then driven on roads that carry tanker and construction traffic all day.
Both halves of that show up in the glass. The truck roads produce stone damage, and it is heavier stuff than the average commuter chip because of what these vehicles carry and shed. The waterfront produces the slower kind of damage: salt air off the canal and the river gets everywhere, and it works on the metal under the edge of the windshield as much as on the glass itself. That is worth knowing before you replace a screen, because bonding new glass onto a corroded pinch weld is how a leak starts a year later. If we find rust under an old windshield we tell you about it before we go any further rather than covering it up with fresh urethane and handing you the keys. Everything is quoted first, weekdays 8 to 5.
Clinton Street is the spine of the old town, running from Route 9 straight down to the canal basin, the marina and the ferry landing, with Fifth Street and the rest of the small grid crossing it. Route 9 comes in from New Castle along the river and carries on south past Fort DuPont toward the Reedy Point Bridge, which lifts Route 9 over the canal. Route 72, Wrangle Hill Road, is the inland route out to Route 40 and Bear, and it is the road the works traffic uses. The refinery sits immediately west of town, so tanker and contractor vehicles are a constant part of local traffic in a way they simply are not in the residential areas further north.
“10/10 will recommend. A+ service and professionalism. My car was vandalize by a man on drugs. He destroyed my windshield, broke my wiper arm and ripped off my door handle. Very unfortunate for me because my insurance didn't cover because the total damages was under the price of my deductible. So I had to come out of pocket. Glory and praises to God Almighty who supply all. I mean I was upset but God gave me the peace and a heart to pray for the individual that damaged my car. But baby, Pro Bond pulled up on time and got right to work. Vacuum up all the glass and told me once I get the wiper arm to give them a call and they will install. I am so appreciative of great business. The icing on the cake was the quoted price of repair was cheaper then 4 other companies that I called. I called Monday they came out to repair on Tuesday and that was only because it rained Monday. I will recommend to all my family and friends”
One: works traffic on Route 9 and Wrangle Hill Road. Tankers, tippers and contractor pickups drop grit and stone onto roads that were never built for that volume, and following one at forty is how most windshields around here get marked. Two: salt air. This is the coastal problem people forget about; airborne salt off the canal and the river corrodes the metal lip the windshield bonds to, and it also loads the wiper blades with a fine abrasive that hazes the glass over years. Three: exposure. There is very little shelter in this town and almost no garaging, so glass goes through the full daily temperature swing with a chip in it. Four: the wind. It comes off the water hard and carries grit with it, which is a genuine problem for anyone trying to bond glass outdoors on the wrong day.
Route 9 north along the river is the pleasant way and it is direct: follow it up through the marshes and past the airport ground into New Castle, then work across to Route 13 and Parkway Circle. Wrangle Hill Road to Route 13 is the quicker way if the river road is busy or you are coming from the western side of town, and Route 13 then runs you straight north to us. Both are about fifteen minutes. If your car is off the road, glass in the seats or a window that will not stay up, do not run it up Route 9 like that; call and the van comes down, weather permitting, because we would rather fit it dry than fit it fast.
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Not the glass so much as what holds it in. Salt air corrodes the painted metal lip that the windshield bonds to, and if that lip is rusting under the old urethane, new glass bonded onto it will eventually leak or, worse, will not be holding on as well as it should. It is the sort of thing you only see once the old screen is out. If we find it, you get told there and then, with what it means for the job, rather than finding out next winter when there is water in the footwell.
We are open 8 to 5 Monday to Friday and closed at the weekend, so the trick is to use the hours the car is standing rather than the hours you are free. If your car sits at home during a day shift, leave the keys and tell us where it is parked and the van does it there. If you are off during the day, bring it to 23 Parkway Circle: chip fills are about 30 minutes and a windshield is around an hour plus the safe drive-away time we quote you before you leave.
Sometimes, and sometimes we will tell you it is a bad idea. Fresh urethane has to stay clean while it goes off, and wind carrying grit and salt spray across an open bond line is not clean. If we can put the car somewhere sheltered, alongside a building or in a driveway out of the worst of it, we will work there. If not, the honest answer is that the job belongs in the shop fifteen minutes up the road, and rescheduling costs you an afternoon rather than a windshield.
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