Most chips are a 30 minute job at $60 to $150, and with comprehensive coverage the bill is often nothing at all. Come up from Bay Ridge and you are back on Fort Hamilton Parkway inside the hour. A repair holds the break together and keeps the original factory seal, which no replacement can hand back.
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Third Avenue sits under the Gowanus deck, and cars kept in Bay Ridge collect stone strikes at a rate that surprises people who moved down from further inland. Most of what reaches us is a bullseye or a short combination break about the size of a dime, caught within a week or two. That is the ideal case. The damage has not filled with grit or road salt yet, the resin goes in clean, and once it cures the mark is something you have to hunt for in the right light.
Time is the whole game here. A break sitting in the glass through a cold snap by the water, then hit with the heater on full, will run out into a line that cannot be repaired. Once it passes a few inches, or once it lands where it sits in your view of the road, replacement becomes the honest answer and we will say so instead of taking money for a fix that will not hold. The shop runs every day of the week, so a Sunday morning chip does not have to sit there until Monday. Insurance is billed directly when the policy covers it.
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There is a pattern to where Bay Ridge chips come from. The Shore Parkway stretch along the water and the merge lanes feeding the bridge produce the fast sharp ones, thrown up at speed by a truck two cars ahead. The slow ones come off the avenue: a stone lodged in a tire tread on 86th Street, flicked out during a parking maneuver, barely audible when it lands. Drivers notice the first kind immediately and the second kind a month later. Both take resin the same way if you get to them early enough. Since a lot of parking here ends up a block or two from the house, we do chips on location as well, and one done in a driveway takes about as long as one done in our bay.
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Rough rule: damage up to about the size of a quarter, with no long legs running out of it, repairs well. Cracks past a few inches, anything right at the edge of the glass where it carries load, and breaks sitting directly in the driver's view are replacement territory. Send a photo or drive over and we will look before you commit to anything.
No, and we would rather say that up front than oversell it. What you get is a break that is filled, bonded and stopped, with the look improved most of the way. From the driver's seat in daylight most repairs are hard to locate. The real win is that the crack stops travelling and the factory bond between glass and body is never disturbed.
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