Around an hour and $200 to $450 covers most side or rear tempered glass, with the clean-out counted in the price. Castle Hill loses more windows overnight than most of the east Bronx, so we keep the popular panes on the shelf. Drive in at seven and it stays a morning job.
4.0★ on Google — 33+ reviews
The first hour after you find the car open is worth getting right. Photograph the damage before you touch anything, because a comprehensive claim goes more smoothly with a picture of the pane as it fell. Leave the cubes where they are; how they distribute inside the door tells us whether the regulator took a hit, and that is worth knowing before anybody quotes you. Tape whatever you have across the opening to keep the weather out, then drive it in.
At the bay it is roughly an hour on most side and rear panes, at $200 to $450 with the interior clean-out included. Back glass with a heated grid or a printed antenna runs longer, since those tabs are soldered and tested rather than clipped. We take the door card off, empty the cavity, clear the run channel so the new pane does not grind its way up, then work through the seat rails, the carpet and the trunk lip. The claim gets filed from the counter and the install carries the lifetime workmanship warranty, so a leak or a whistle that comes from our work is ours to put right.
“This team was great! Someone broke into my car and I went to their shop to fix my window. They completed the window and vacuumed my car within an hour.”
More on this service: Side & Rear Window Replacement at Blondi Auto Glass →
There is a rhythm to these calls and it is nearly always the same shift. The peninsula's long residential streets stop at the shoreline, so almost none of them carry traffic that is going anywhere, and after midnight there is nobody on them at all. What that produces is a run of cars on one block rather than a single one, and we will often see two or three vehicles off the same few streets in the same week. Because it is predictable, we stock for it, and door and rear panes for the models people actually keep out here stay on the rack instead of being ordered on the day. The drive west takes about twenty minutes, and the practical advice is to make it early. A car that arrives at seven with plastic on the door is usually finished and vacuumed before the shop fills up.
Same service, same price, other Bronx neighborhoods:
Usually the same day, yes. Front and rear door panes for the common models are stocked precisely because this tends to arrive in batches rather than one at a time. Bring both vehicles down when we open and they go through in turn. If one of them takes a pane we do not carry, you will be told which and when it lands rather than left guessing.
With the opening covered and at sensible speed, yes. Tape a bag or a sheet of plastic across the frame so it cannot billow, stay out of the fastest lanes, and expect it to be loud. That is still a far better position than leaving the vehicle standing open at the curb for another night. Bring it in as it sits and we handle the rest.
Tell us the vehicle and the glass that's damaged — you'll see your price instantly, and we'll hold it for you.
Odd job the widget can't price? Send us the details and a human will quote it fast.
The instant quote is the fastest way to a price. For unusual jobs, fleet work, or anything that needs a human, use the form — we answer fast during shop hours.
| Monday – Saturday | 07:00 – 18:30 |
| Sunday | Closed |