Half an hour is the usual number, about 30 minutes with you waiting, for a Castle Hill chip. You hear the money side before we begin: comprehensive cover generally waives the deductible on a repair, which is why a good many end at zero out of pocket, and we submit the claim.
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Castle Hill Avenue runs from Westchester Avenue down toward the water at Castle Hill Point, and the blocks it crosses change character as you go. Co-ops and row houses in the middle, small industrial yards over near Zerega Avenue, and trucks working between them carrying loose material. Sand, gravel and broken asphalt on a truck bed find their way onto the road, and the car behind picks them up. Most of the breaks that come to us from this corner of the Bronx started that way.
A star or a bullseye caught early is a half-hour problem. We clean the cavity, draw off the air that is trapped in it, force optical resin through under pressure until every branch is filled, harden it with ultraviolet light and polish the outside back to flat. The windshield stays bonded to the car exactly as the factory left it, which means no cutting, no fresh urethane and no recalibration of anything mounted behind the mirror. What you get back is glass that will not keep splitting, with a faint shadow where the impact was. If the break is too big or badly placed, the free assessment tells you that before you commit.
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Getting here from Castle Hill means the Bruckner Expressway west, onto the Cross Bronx westbound, and off near Jerome Avenue, about six miles and twenty minutes. The local wrinkle is the mix of traffic you share the neighborhood with. Ellis Avenue, Zerega Avenue and Randall Avenue carry working trucks in and out of the small industrial blocks all day, while the residential streets are full of cars that only move a few times a week. Vehicles that sit still between short trips are the ones where a chip goes unnoticed longest, and an unnoticed chip is one that collects water and grit in the cavity. Resin fills a fresh break far better than a weathered one. If your car mostly sits, make a point of looking at the glass in daylight now and then.
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Before any work begins. Once we have your policy number we contact the carrier, confirm what your comprehensive terms say about glass, and tell you the figure or tell you there is nothing to pay. You are never asked to approve work and find out afterwards. If the answer is not what you hoped, you can walk away and nothing has been done to the car.
It can, but the glass has to be dry and brought to a workable temperature first, which is easier indoors than in a driveway in February. Moisture sitting inside a break is the enemy, because water in the cavity stops resin from bonding to the glass walls. In winter we generally suggest bringing the car to the shop so the windshield can be prepared properly.
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