Five minutes, from just about anywhere in New Castle. Pro-Bond works out of 23 Parkway Circle in the 19720, so the shop sits inside the town rather than out along a highway somewhere. A chip fill takes about 30 minutes and costs $60 to $130. A windshield is $250 to $450 fitted, roughly an hour of work plus safe drive-away time. Door, quarter and back glass runs $200 to $500. Open weekdays 8 to 5. Call 215-608-1108.
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New Castle is really two towns sharing one ZIP code. Down by the river there is the old grid, Delaware Street and Second and Third and The Strand, where the surface is brick and stone laid by hand, the houses have no driveways, and a car parks at the kerb inches from a wall. Out along the DuPont Highway and Basin Road it is the other New Castle: apartment lots, strip-mall parking, service yards near the airport, and a lot of vehicles that spend their working day on Route 13 and their night outdoors under a light. Both halves send us glass, and they send different kinds of it.
The old streets shake a car. Stone setts and old brick put a small, constant vibration through the screen that smooth blacktop never does, and a chip that would sit quietly somewhere else spreads here. The highway side does the opposite: it throws stone at you. Either way the fix is cheap while it is small, $60 to $130 and half an hour, and it is $250 to $450 once the crack has run across the glass. Because we are in the middle of town, most New Castle jobs are a drop-off. Leave the keys, get a lift or walk, and collect the car the same afternoon. Common windshields are on the shelf here. We are open 8 to 5 Monday to Friday and shut at the weekend, so a Friday-night break-in means tape and a Monday morning.
Route 13, the DuPont Highway, is the spine, six lanes of it with jughandle turns, constant lane changing and a truck in every third gap. Route 141 and Basin Road bring industrial traffic down past the airport. Route 273, Frenchtown Road, is the way west to Christiana and the road most people use to reach I-95. Route 9 runs the river edge as New Castle Avenue and River Road. Then there is the historic grid: Delaware Street dropping down to Battery Park, The Strand along the water, Second and Third crossing them, all of it stone and brick with cars parked both sides and no off-street parking to speak of. The I-295 approach to the Delaware Memorial Bridge crosses over the whole thing.
“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: stone off Route 13. Six lanes of mixed truck and commuter traffic throws grit constantly, and a stone that leaves a tyre at fifty is doing enough to star a windshield without you hearing it happen. Two: the old surface down by the river. Stone setts and brick flex the glass at every joint, which is why a chip picked up on the highway finishes its life in the historic district. Three: break-ins, mostly overnight where cars have to sit at the kerb; tempered side glass does not crack, it collapses into the seat rails, the door card and the heater vents. Four: river weather. Damp and salt air get into an unfilled chip within days, and contamination is the reason an old chip never fills as clean as a fresh one.
Everything in New Castle finds Route 13 sooner or later, and that is the road to aim for. From the historic end, work up Delaware Street or Third to Route 9, then west on Route 273 to the DuPont Highway. From the Basin Road side, come south on Route 141 and turn onto 13. We are on Parkway Circle, a short turn off the highway and a couple of minutes from the I-295 bridge approach, which is five to eight minutes from most addresses in town. If the car has glass across the seats or a window that will not stay up, leave it where it is and tell us where to find it. The van comes to you instead.
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They do not crack good glass. What they do is finish off glass that is already chipped. Every joint in a laid stone or brick surface is a small impact, and a windshield with a stone mark in it flexes at that mark a few hundred times on a short drive. That is how a $60 to $130 repair turns into a $250 to $450 replacement over a couple of weeks. If you live down in the old grid and you have a chip, it is worth dealing with sooner than someone who parks on a driveway out on 273.
That is how a lot of New Castle jobs go. Bring it to 23 Parkway Circle, leave the keys, and we call you when it is done. A chip fill is about 30 minutes if you would rather sit with it. A windshield is roughly an hour of work, then safe drive-away time before the urethane is strong enough to hold the glass in a hard stop, and we give you that as a specific time rather than telling you to wait a while. We are here 8 to 5 Monday to Friday.
It changes the glass and it changes what has to happen afterwards. A windshield for a car with a forward camera has to be the right specification with the correct bracket and the right optical area in front of the lens, and the camera has to be recalibrated once the new screen is in or the car is reading the road through glass it was never set up for. Tell us the year, make and model on the phone and we will tell you straight what your car needs before anything is ordered.
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