Twelve minutes down Route 130, and the van comes up this way most weeks. Oldmans is farm ground with three major roads cut through it, so the glass damage here is either highway stone or field grit and very little else. A chip fill is $60 to $130 and takes half an hour. A windshield is $250 to $450 fitted, roughly an hour plus safe drive-away time. Door and back glass is $200 to $500. Call 215-608-1108.
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Oldmans Township is mostly fields, and the fields are crossed by three of the busiest roads in South Jersey. The Turnpike and I-295 run through on their way to the bridge, Route 130 runs between them, and everything else is two-lane county road with a ditch either side. A car registered out here does short trips on farm roads and then joins traffic doing seventy. Both halves leave marks on glass and they leave different ones: the county roads throw grit and dried soil up off field entrances, the highways throw stone off truck tyres hard enough to crack a screen through a rain shield.
The other thing about Oldmans is distance. Nothing is next door. A shattered side window is not a five-minute inconvenience here, it is a cold, loud drive with a bin liner taped over the hole, and if there is rain forecast it is worse than that. This is what the van exists for. Most properties in the township have a yard or a driveway with plenty of room to work, which is all we need, that and dry weather, because urethane has to cure properly before the glass is holding anything structural. Ring 215-608-1108 and we will tell you honestly whether it is a van job or worth the twelve-minute drive down Route 130.
Route 130 is the working road through the township, two lanes each way with turns straight off it into farm lanes and yards. I-295 and the Turnpike run alongside on their way south toward the Delaware Memorial Bridge, carrying the region's freight, and their ramps feed it on and off local roads. Between the highways the ground is open, flat and agricultural, with Oldmans Creek marking the northern boundary and the land either side of it low and wet. The county roads have no kerbs and no shoulders here, the tarmac simply stops and gravel starts, and the driveways are long, unmade and stony. That last detail costs more windshields than people expect, because a car crawling up its own drive is still throwing stone at itself.
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Highway stone leads, from the freight running the Route 130, I-295 and Turnpike corridor toward the bridge. Second is your own driveway, and we mean that seriously: an unmade stone drive at walking pace flicks chips into the lower edge of a windshield, which is the worst place to take one, because damage within a couple of inches of the edge is almost never repairable. Third is field entrances, where tractors and trailers leave soil and stone on the carriageway for the next fifty vehicles to pick up. Fourth is harvest traffic, when combines and grain trailers use roads with no room to pass and everybody ends up half on the verge. Fifth is the classic frozen-morning mistake of pouring hot water on a cold screen, which will split glass that already has a chip in it.
Route 130 south is the whole trip. From anywhere in the township, get onto it and head toward Carneys Point; Penns Grove is the turn west off it before you reach the Route 40 junction, and we are at 304 North Virginia Avenue. Twelve minutes from the middle of the township, a little more from the Oldmans Creek end. If you are coming off I-295 or the Turnpike, come off at Route 130 rather than continuing to the bridge, which drops you into plaza traffic you do not need. Farm vehicles and anything oversized should stay on Route 130 rather than cutting through the borough streets.
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Yes, and a yard is often better than a driveway because there is space to move around the vehicle. What we need is reasonably level ground, room to open the doors fully, and dry conditions for the adhesive. What we would rather avoid is a dusty yard in a wind, because dust on the bonding surface is the enemy of a good seal. If there is a barn or an open-sided building we can pull alongside, mention it when you ring 215-608-1108 and we will plan around the weather.
Usually. Windshields for common pickups and work vans are the parts we are most likely to have on the shelf, and the fitting itself is about an hour. What takes the time is safe drive-away, which is not negotiable and depends on the adhesive and the temperature. Ring first thing on 215-608-1108 with the year, make, model and VIN, drop it in the morning and in most cases you are working again in the afternoon.
Yes. Urethane needs a clean, dry bonding surface and proper curing conditions, and a windshield is a structural part of the car, not a cover over a hole. We will not fit one in the rain in a yard and then tell you it is fine. If the forecast turns, we either move to a covered space at your end or you bring the vehicle to the shop, where the bay is indoors and the weather is somebody else's problem.
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