Forty-five minutes down Route 1, and for Dover the answer is almost always the van rather than the drive. Prices do not change for the distance: $60 to $130 for a chip fill, about 30 minutes; $250 to $450 for a fitted windshield, roughly an hour plus safe drive-away time; $200 to $500 for door, quarter or back glass. Call early in the day so we can put you on that run. Pro-Bond, 23 Parkway Circle, New Castle, weekdays 8 to 5. 215-608-1108.
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Dover is the far end of our range and we are honest about that: this is a mobile job, planned into a day, not somewhere you should think of as round the corner. What makes it worth doing is the driving people down there actually do. Dover runs on long journeys. State workers, base traffic, people commuting up the Route 1 corridor to jobs in New Castle County, farm and freight traffic on Route 13 heading for Maryland. Cars here rack up highway miles at a rate that suburban cars simply do not, and highway miles are how windshields get hit.
So the calls we take from Dover are overwhelmingly about stone damage, and often about damage that has been there a while, because the person who noticed it was ninety minutes into a drive and had forgotten by the time they parked. A chip that is still a chip is half an hour and $60 to $130 wherever we do it. Once it has run, and Route 1 will run it, it is $250 to $450 for a new screen. The practical advice for anyone this far south is the same every time: call the morning you notice it, not the week after. We route the van in the morning, so an early call gets a same-day or next-day slot rather than waiting for the next trip down.
Route 1 runs along the western edge as the fast way in and out, with the toll plaza on the New Castle County stretch and long open sections where traffic sits at seventy. Route 13, the DuPont Highway, runs right through the middle of the city as the commercial strip, six lanes of retail frontage and turning traffic. Route 8 takes the east-west movement out toward the farmland and Route 9 heads for the marshes and the bay. The state complex and the courts sit near the old centre, where the streets are narrow and the parking is metered, and the base and the speedway sit on the other side of town, both of which put a lot of vehicles onto the same few roads at the same few times.
“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: Route 1 mileage. A Dover car that commutes north lives on that road, and a stone at seventy does not chip glass so much as punch it. Two: the Route 13 strip through town, where stop-start traffic keeps you close behind whatever is shedding grit and then accelerates you through it. Three: farm and freight traffic on the roads out east and south, which pull soil and stone onto the tarmac in season. Four: flat, open country. There is no shelter here, so cars stand in full sun and full wind all day, and the temperature swing across a windshield is bigger than it is in a shaded street. That swing is what turns a chip into a crack.
If you do want to bring it up, it is a straight run: Route 1 north from Dover, past the toll, over the canal on the high bridge, and stay on it until it meets Route 13, then north on the highway toward New Castle. Parkway Circle is a short turn off 13. Allow forty-five minutes to an hour depending on the toll queue and the time of day. Realistically, though, most people down here should let the van come instead, because two hours of driving to save nothing is a poor trade. We are out weekdays 8 to 5 and the run gets planned in the morning.
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Yes, but it is a planned run rather than a same-hour call-out, so the earlier you ring the better your chances of getting on that day. Give us the year, make and model on the phone and you get the price then: $60 to $130 for a chip fill, $250 to $450 for a windshield fitted, $200 to $500 for door, quarter or back glass. Nothing is added when we arrive. If we cannot get down on the day, we will say so and give you a real slot instead of leaving you waiting.
The price is the same either way, so the only thing you are trading is your time against ours. The reason to drive up is weather: the shop is indoors, and urethane needs a dry bond line, so a wet week is easier to work around in a bay than on a driveway in Dover. The reason not to is obvious, it is ninety minutes of your day and a toll each way. Most people down here have the van come and get on with something else while it happens.
Longer than the fitting takes, and it is not a formality. The glass goes in on urethane, and until that has developed enough strength the windshield is not doing its structural job, which includes holding the roof shape in a rollover and backing the passenger airbag. We give you a specific safe drive-away time on the day, based on the adhesive and the conditions, rather than a vague wait a bit. Plan on the car being off the road for the fitting hour plus that time on top.
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