Thirty minutes up Route 1 over the canal, or the van comes south to you and saves you the trip and the toll. Prices are the same either way: $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. Pro-Bond is at 23 Parkway Circle in New Castle, open weekdays 8 to 5. Call 215-608-1108 and we will quote it before you decide which way to do it.
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Middletown drives further than anywhere else we cover. The town has grown enormously, most of that growth is families who work north of the canal, and a canal is a hard thing to cross casually. So the typical vehicle here does forty or fifty highway miles a day on Route 1 or Route 301, sits on a wide open driveway for the rest of it, and gets its glass damage at speed rather than at the kerb. Break-ins are not what people call us about from the 19709. Stone is.
The other thing about this end of the county is that it is still farm country between the developments. Combine harvesters and grain trucks use the same roads as the school run, field entrances put dirt and stone straight onto the tarmac, and after harvest the surface on the back roads is nothing like the surface on a suburban street. Add the sun. New estates have no mature trees, so cars bake all day on open concrete and a chip that would sit still in the shade grows in the heat. That is why we push hard on catching them early: it is half an hour and $60 to $130 now, or $250 to $450 and a new screen after one August. If you would rather not drive north for it, say so on the phone. The van crosses the canal.
Main Street, Route 299, runs through the middle of the old town and is still where everything slows down. Route 301 and Route 1 carry the through traffic and the commuters, with Route 1 lifting over the canal on the high bridge north of town and the Biddles Corner toll plaza sitting on the way. Route 896 is the older crossing, the Summit Bridge road, which takes you up toward Glasgow instead. West and south of the built-up area it is farmland with straight two-lane roads, deep shoulders and no kerbs, and the developments run off those roads with wide streets and long driveways. Almost nobody in Middletown parks at the kerb, which is unusual for our patch and it shows in the type of work we get.
“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 and Route 301 at speed. Long, fast, truck-heavy runs are where nearly every Middletown windshield gets its first mark, and at seventy a small stone does real damage. Two: the farm roads. Field entrances drop soil and stone onto the tarmac, tractors and grain trucks track it for miles, and the car behind gets it thrown at the screen. Three: heat. Open driveways, no shade, dark dashboards; the glass expands all day and contracts overnight, and that cycle is what makes an existing chip run. Four: construction. New building goes on constantly around here and the pickups and tippers serving it are a rolling source of grit on roads that were quiet a year ago.
Route 1 north is the straightforward one: join it at Middletown, pay Biddles Corner on the way through, cross the canal on the high bridge and stay on it until it meets Route 13, then follow 13 north toward New Castle. Parkway Circle is a short turn off the highway. If you would rather avoid the toll, Route 896 north over the Summit Bridge to Route 40 and east through Bear works and costs you about ten extra minutes. Thirty minutes on a decent run either way. Given the distance, most people here have us come to them instead, which we do weekdays between 8 and 5, and dry weather permitting.
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The price is the same, so it comes down to your day. Driving up is about thirty minutes each way plus the toll, and it gets you an indoor job that is unaffected by the weather; a chip fill is 30 minutes and a windshield is roughly an hour plus safe drive-away time. Having the van come south costs you nothing but the wait and works fine on the driveways around here. If it is raining, the shop wins, because urethane wants a dry bond line and we will not pretend otherwise.
Yes, regularly. Middletown, Odessa and the developments along the Route 299 corridor are part of the normal run rather than a special trip. What helps is a day of notice, because the van gets routed in the morning and a job an hour away lands better if we know before it starts. Tell us the year, make and model when you call and you will get the price then, so you are not waiting for someone to arrive and put a number on it in your driveway.
If it has run into a crack, no. Resin restores a small impact; it cannot rebuild glass along a crack line, and a windshield with a crack across it is a replacement at $250 to $450 fitted. Heat is the usual trigger around here: a dark car on an open driveway in July gets very hot glass, then the air conditioning hits it cold, and that is enough to send a stable chip travelling in an afternoon. Any chip you can feel with a fingernail is worth $60 to $130 and half an hour now.
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