About thirty minutes, and $60 to $150 for most chips. With comprehensive coverage many drivers pay nothing at all, since insurers routinely waive the deductible on repairs. We fill the break with resin, keep the factory seal intact, and send Bensonhurst drivers back west on Kings Highway the same morning.
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A chip is the cheapest windshield problem you will ever have, and it only stays cheap while it is small. We inject resin into the break, cure it under pressure, and hand back the keys in about half an hour. Most chips run $60 to $150. Carry comprehensive and you may pay nothing, because plenty of carriers waive the deductible on a repair. We bill them here and handle the forms. The limits are easy to remember: smaller than a quarter, and out of your direct line of sight. Once a crack reaches the wiper sweep in front of the driver or runs out to the edge of the glass, repair is finished and you are looking at a $250 to $500 replacement instead.
Bensonhurst hands out chips generously. Delivery trucks sit double-parked along 18th Avenue while everyone squeezes past them, and the roadbed under the elevated tracks on New Utrecht Avenue throws up loose stone all year. Come in Monday through Saturday, eight to five, no appointment needed. Half an hour on the bench is also long enough for us to look at hazed headlight lenses, and a fair number of 86th Street regulars drive off with both jobs done.
“Charlie is a very patient, kind, knowledgeable person. I bought a old Chevy Corvette that had more issues than anticipated. He gave me lots of great advice and is helping me fix the problematic electric headlights. I highly recommend his…”
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Alternate-side rules keep Bensonhurst cars moving twice a week, which is exactly how a small chip gets discovered and then ignored. You back out of a tight spot on a February morning, run the defroster hard on glass that spent the night at freezing, and last month's little star throws a leg across your view. Add the patched seams on Bath Avenue and Cropsey Avenue, plus the drop onto the Belt Parkway ramps at the southern edge, and the crack keeps going. The drive over is short: Kings Highway or Avenue U straight east, about three miles, twelve to fifteen minutes, or the Belt Parkway from the Bay Parkway exit. Thirty minutes later you are back on your own block, with time to move the car before the sweeper comes through.
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Age matters less than size and position. If it is still under a quarter and outside your sweep, resin will fill it, thirty minutes, $60 to $150. Dirt packed into an old break can leave it slightly more visible after the fill, but the structure holds and the damage stops travelling. Bring it by and we will tell you honestly which way yours goes.
That is the point of the job. Half an hour from keys to keys, with no cure time to plan around, so a run of errands on 20th Avenue still happens. If we spot cloudy headlight lenses while the resin sets, we will quote those too, $60 to $150, and it stays a single stop.
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