Half an hour west on Route 40, roughly twenty miles. That is worth knowing before you choose between repair and replacement: a chip fill takes about half an hour once the car is here and costs $60 to $130, so the drive is the longest part of the day. A windshield is $250 to $450 fitted. Door, quarter and back glass is $200 to $500. The van comes out to Elmer too. Call 215-608-1108.
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Elmer is a borough of a couple of thousand people with farmland on every side and a hospital in the middle of it, which gives it a traffic pattern unusual for a place this size. Shift changes put cars on the road at six in the morning and eleven at night, and the roads they use are unlit two-lane county roads through fields and woodland. That is the single most useful fact about glass in Elmer: a large share of the damage we see from here happened in the dark, at speed, to somebody driving to or from work.
The other half is Route 40. It runs along the top of the borough and it is what connects Elmer to everywhere, including to us. It is fast, it carries freight all day, and long stretches of it have gravel shoulders that get dragged out onto the carriageway. A stone off a truck at fifty-five does not politely chip the passenger corner, it usually lands somewhere you have to look through. If it is smaller than a quarter and away from the edge, resin will hold it for $60 to $130. If it is bigger, or if it has already run, budget $250 to $450 for the glass fitted and about an hour of work plus safe drive-away time.
Route 40 runs east and west along the northern side of Elmer and is the borough's link to Woodstown and Carneys Point in one direction and Vineland in the other. Main Street and the short grid around it are the town itself, narrow, kerbed and parked on both sides, with the lake and the older houses at one end. Past the borough boundary, Pittsgrove and Upper Pittsgrove are farm and woodland on long straight county roads with deep ditches, no lighting and tree canopy closing in overhead in places. Those are the roads where deer cross, where a branch comes down in a storm, and where a windshield that has been fine for years meets something at fifty in the dark.
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Night driving on the county roads comes first, because Elmer's traffic peaks when it is dark. Debris you cannot see, deer coming out of a hedge line, and branches on unlit lanes account for a real share of the windshields we replace here, and a deer strike usually takes more than the glass. Second is Route 40 at speed, where truck stone off a gravel shoulder does the damage. Third is the shoulders themselves, which are loose for miles at a time and get pulled onto the tarmac by every vehicle that drops a wheel. Fourth is storm damage from mature trees on the borough streets and along the lanes. Fifth is the temperature swing on cars parked out in open farmland, hot glass at four in the afternoon, frost on it by six the next morning.
Route 40 west, and stay on it. It takes you past Elmer's northern edge, out through the farmland, through the Woodstown crossroads and on into Carneys Point; then Route 130 north into Penns Grove and west into the borough to 304 North Virginia Avenue. Roughly twenty miles and half an hour with a fair run. There is no clever shortcut worth taking, and the county roads that look shorter on a map are slower and rougher on a car that is already carrying a crack. Ring 215-608-1108 before you set off so the part is out of the rack when you arrive.
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Honestly, only if you are coming this way anyway, or if you want it done properly by somebody who will tell you when it cannot be. What we would rather do is take a photo from you first. Send us a picture with something for scale next to the damage, ring 215-608-1108, and we will tell you whether resin will hold it before you spend an hour in the car. If it will not, we would rather you knew that at your kitchen table.
The glass is usually the least of it. A deer strike at speed tends to take a wing mirror, distort a bonnet or wing, and quite often push the windshield's upper edge where the impact ran up the panel, which matters because that edge is part of the seal. When we take the old glass out we will tell you what the pinchweld and the surrounding metal actually look like. The windshield itself is $250 to $450 fitted; bodywork is not our trade and we will say so.
That depends on your rota more than on us, because we are open 7:30 to 4 on weekdays and 8 to noon on Saturday. If you finish a night shift in the morning, dropping the car with us on the way home and collecting it after you have slept is the usual arrangement and it works well. If your hours do not fit that at all, the van is the better answer, and it reaches Elmer comfortably as long as the weather holds.
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