Plan on roughly 30 minutes in the chair, not a day without the car, when you bring a Fordham chip down to us. The cost side is usually easier than drivers expect: comprehensive coverage generally waives the deductible on a repair, so many of these end at zero out of pocket, and we file the claim.
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Nobody drives East Fordham Road quickly. It is one of the busiest retail strips in the borough, and between the Bx12 buses pulling in and out, the double parking and the delivery trucks, you spend most of the trip at walking pace behind something large. That is where a surprising number of the chips we see come from, because low speed does not mean no impact, and grit dropping off a truck bed onto the car behind it hits glass hard enough to break it.
Getting to us is simple: the Grand Concourse crosses Fordham Road at the top of the hill, and you follow it south about two miles, roughly ten minutes. What happens here takes less time than the drive. We open the break, draw the air out under vacuum, inject optical resin under pressure, cure it with ultraviolet light and polish it flat. The windshield keeps its factory bond because nothing is cut, which also means no camera recalibration afterwards. A faint mark stays where the break was, and that is the trade for keeping your original glass. We look at it free first and tell you if replacement is the smarter call.
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Fordham is a neighborhood people drive into rather than through: the university campus at Rose Hill, the Botanical Garden and the zoo on the east side, Metro-North riders leaving cars near the station on Fordham Road. That pattern matters for glass, because a car that gets parked in the morning, sits all day and gets driven home is a car whose chip nobody notices until it has already collected a week of road film. Dirty, weathered breaks take resin poorly. The clean fill you get on day one is not the fill you get on day twelve. So if you spot a star while you are scraping the windshield in a Fordham lot, that is the moment to call, not after it has grown a tail across the glass on the drive down the Concourse.
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A windshield chip is normally handled under the comprehensive part of your policy, which covers damage you did not cause in a collision, such as road debris, weather and vandalism. It is not rated the same way a fault-based collision claim is. Carriers differ in how they treat repeated claims, so if you want certainty, we will pull up the details with your insurer before anything is filed.
Usually, yes. Once the vehicle is in the bay and the tools are set up, each additional break adds only a few minutes, so two or three small chips are still a single short appointment. Insurers normally treat them as one glass claim rather than several. We check each break separately though, because one of them may be past the point where resin can do the job.
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