Around fifteen minutes and six and a half miles. Prices Corner is the junction of Kirkwood Highway and Centre Road, and Glass World is at 3520 N Market Street in north Wilmington. A chip fill is $60 to $130 and half an hour, and it is the job most Prices Corner drivers actually need, because this is chip country. A fitted windshield is $250 to $450 with glass, urethane, moldings and labor included. Broken side and back glass is $200 to $500 fitted. 215-608-1108.
Prices Corner is a crossroads that grew. Two busy roads meet, the shopping center and the retail strips wrap around the junction, the park-and-ride sits alongside, and the housing spreads out behind all of it into quiet curving streets with driveways. Most people here do a version of the same day: out of the driveway, onto Kirkwood Highway or Centre Road, sit in the queue at the lights, then a large parking lot at the far end.
So the two damage patterns are the highway and the lot, and they arrive in that order. Kirkwood Highway is one of the hardest-worked roads in the county, and the stretch through this junction carries buses, delivery vehicles and construction traffic on a surface that has been patched more times than anyone can count. That is where the chips come from, and a chip is $60 to $130 and half an hour if it comes in before winter finishes it. The lots produce the other half: door glass and mirrors at walking pace, and the occasional break-in from a car left all day at the park-and-ride while its owner is somewhere else entirely. Broken side and back glass is $200 to $500 fitted, including getting every fragment out of the door and the seat rails.
Kirkwood Highway runs east-west through the junction, four lanes of it, with retail entrances and turning lanes the whole way and traffic that stops dead at every light. Centre Road takes the north-south movement, dropping south toward Newport and the river crossings and running north toward Greenville and the 202 corridor. Newport Gap Pike heads out northwest from near the junction. Milltown Road and Faulkland Road serve the residential ground behind, and Delcastle sits out that way with its playing fields and open land. The housing streets are wide by city standards, curving, with driveways and garages, so overnight parking pressure is nothing like what it is in Wilmington; the pressure here is all at the junction.
First, Kirkwood Highway, and it is not close. Constant stop-start traffic on a patched four-lane surface, buses and delivery vehicles in the nearside lane throwing grit, and stones from construction traffic heading out toward the western suburbs; a chip a season is normal for a car doing this run daily. Second, the parking lots. Retail bays here are tight and busy, and doors, carts and pillars account for most of the side glass and mirror work. Third, all-day parking at the park-and-ride, which is what turns an ordinary commute into a broken rear window. Fourth, road salt through the winter, which gets into a chip and contaminates it so it never fills as cleanly in spring.
Two sensible routes. The straightforward one is Kirkwood Highway east into Wilmington, on through Elsmere, then Maryland Avenue to Union Street, north to Delaware Avenue, and across to Market Street and north to 3520. The faster one at rush hour is Centre Road, which is Route 141, south to I-95 and then I-95 north to the Wilmington exits, coming off and working east to Market. Fifteen to twenty minutes depending on which you pick and when. For a chip fill it is worth timing the trip for mid-morning, because half an hour at the shop beats forty minutes sitting on Kirkwood Highway.
Glass World works across Wilmington and the surrounding towns — pick your neighborhood:
Tell us the year, make and model and which window went, and we will confirm the glass and the slot on the phone. Most side and rear panes for common cars are stocked, so this is frequently a same-day job at $200 to $500 fitted. If the car has to be driven over with the window out, tape a bin liner over the opening for the trip; if that is not safe or it is raining, say so and the van comes to the lot or to your driveway instead.
You can, and for a chip most people do, because the whole thing is about half an hour. The bay work is quick: the damage is cleaned out, the air is drawn out of it under vacuum, resin goes in under pressure, and it is cured and polished flush. What you get afterwards is a mark that is far less visible and, more to the point, one that has stopped growing. It costs $60 to $130 and it protects a $250 to $450 pane.
Minutes, not hours. The resin is cured with ultraviolet light as part of the repair, so a filled chip is finished when you walk out and there is no waiting period before you drive, wash the car or use the wipers. That is the practical difference between a repair and a replacement: a replacement has a real safe drive-away time attached to it because the urethane bead is structural, while a repair is done when it is done.
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