Thirty minutes, $60 to $150, and often no charge at all on comprehensive, because insurers waive deductibles on repairs. Gravesend sits a mile and a half west of us along Avenue U, close enough that the drive over takes less time than the fill and the cure.
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Five minutes of driving for half an hour of work is a fair trade, and it is the one we most often make with Gravesend drivers. The break gets cleaned and dried, the air pulled out of it, resin pushed in and cured under a lamp until the damage is bonded and stable. Cost is $60 to $150 on most chips, and comprehensive routinely covers all of it, since carriers would rather pay for resin now than glass in February. We bill them and fill in the forms. Repair works while damage is smaller than a quarter and out of the driver's line of sight. Once a crack has run into the sweep or out to the edge, that window has closed and it becomes a $250 to $500 replacement.
The old grid around Village Road and Van Sicklen Street is a lesson in awkward parking: short blocks, odd angles, cars wedged in tight enough that a swinging door finds a neighbouring windshield now and then. McDonald Avenue under the F train gives the usual elevated-roadbed treatment, and Shell Road carries heavier traffic than its width suggests. Open Monday to Saturday, eight until five, and thirty minutes is all we need.
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Being next door has an odd effect: the closer the shop, the longer people put it off. We see Gravesend chips that arrived in the summer, noticed somewhere along the Avenue U strip, ignored through autumn, then reported in January with a six-inch line attached. If it is still small, the whole thing is half an hour and $60 to $150, and the insurance side is usually a formality. Come east on Avenue U, Avenue Z or Kings Highway, five to eight minutes, and there is nothing to wait out at the end of it. While you are here, and because it costs no extra time, we will look at the headlight lenses. Cars kept down toward Coney Island Creek and the shore end of Stillwell Avenue haze over faster than the ones parked further inland.
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Just come. Chip work needs no booking, since it is half an hour with no parts to order and no glass to source. If you want to be sure somebody is free the moment you arrive, ring 646-386-2253 on your way over. We open at eight and work until five, Monday through Saturday, closed on Sunday.
Immediately. The resin is cured under a lamp before you leave, so there is nothing to wait out afterwards and nothing to avoid. That is the real difference between this job and new glass, which needs roughly an hour of safe drive-away time once it is fitted. You can head straight back up Kings Highway and use the wipers that afternoon.
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| Sunday | Closed |