Auto Glass Repair in New Orleans
Since January 2024 the NOPD has logged 6,798 vehicles broken into
and 42,135 collisions inside the city. Three businesses hold a New Orleans
license to replace automotive glass. This site reads both registers and tells you what is actually true where you park.
6,798vehicles broken into, 2024 to date
42,135traffic collisions in the same window
3shops licensed for auto glass — in the whole city
295auto-trade licences we read, one by one
Who Actually Shows Up When You Search
New Orleans licenses exactly three businesses to replace
automotive glass. Search for this on Google's map instead and it surfaces 19 — here is every
one of them, by rating, so you do not have to go scroll the map yourself.
New Orleans Car Window Tinting
★ 5.0 (28)
New Orleans, LA
AutoVision Auto Glass
★ 5.0 (7)
Jefferson Parish
Strength Auto Glass
★ 5.0 (4)
New Orleans, LA
All Glass
★ 4.9 (91)
Plaquemines Parish
NOLA WINDOW TINT
★ 4.8 (199)
Jefferson Parish
Kliebert's Mobile Chip Repair
★ 4.8 (97)
New Orleans, LA
Metairie Auto Glass & Windshield Replacement
★ 4.8 (60)
Jefferson Parish
Onsight Mobile Window Tinting & Auto Glass
★ 4.7 (77)
New Orleans, LA
Safelite AutoGlass
★ 4.6 (492)
Jefferson Parish
Star Glass Inc
★ 4.6 (245)
Jefferson Parish
Zinsel Glass & Mirror
★ 4.4 (56)
Jefferson Parish
Gentilly Auto Glass and Tint
★ 4.2 (62)
New Orleans, LA
Auto & Home Window Replacement
★ 4.2 (21)
New Orleans, LA
Gerber Collision & Glass
★ 4.1 (231)
New Orleans, LA
Lubetastic / Glasstastic
★ 4.0 (26)
Jefferson Parish
Vic's Auto Glass
★ 3.9 (47)
New Orleans, LA
Auto Glass Xperts
★ 1.9 (9)
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Auto Glass
No reviews yet
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MegaStar Autoglass LLC
No reviews yet
New Orleans, LA
Every listing, checked against the city's own register
Start with what actually happened
Auto glass is not one job. What broke decides what can be done, how fast, and whether
anything can be saved. These three cover almost everything that happens in New Orleans.
Somebody broke into the car
Side and rear windows are tempered glass. They do not crack — they let go all at
once into thousands of small blunt pellets, which is the green gravel you are sweeping off the
seats. There is nothing to repair. The glass is replaced.
Side window replacement
Something hit the windshield
The windshield is laminated: two sheets of glass bonded to a plastic layer. That is
why it stars and cracks instead of collapsing. A small chip is often repairable — resin is
injected into the break before it can spread.
Chip and crack repair
A crack has already spread
Once a crack crosses the driver's line of sight or reaches the edge of the glass, repair
stops being an option, because the edge is where the windshield carries load.
Windshield replacement
New Orleans licenses this work. Three businesses hold that license.
The city publishes every active occupational license. We pulled all 295 in
the motor-trade categories and read them. Under Automotive Glass Replacement Shops
there are exactly 3:
| On the register as | Phone on file | Licensed since | Listed city |
|---|
| Safelite Auto Glass/Diamond Auto Glass | (614) 210-9000 | 2008 | Kenner |
| L & D Mobile Glass Co | (504) 621-6407 | 2001 | New Orleans |
| Gentilly Auto Glass | (504) 446-8569 | 2022 | New Orleans |
Search the same phrase on a map and you will be shown dozens. Most of them are working
under a different category — body shop, general repair, mobile service — or under no city
license at all. One of the three carries a phone number that is not a 504 number.
Read the full license check, name by name ·
See who actually shows up on the map
Where the glass actually breaks
Every call to the New Orleans Police Department carries a location. We took three years of
them — January 2024 through September 16, 2026 — kept the ones that break glass, and dropped each one inside the city's
own neighborhood boundaries. No estimates, no modelling: this is the count of calls.
| Neighborhood | Broken into | Collisions | Shops on the register |
|---|
| Central Business District | 585 | 3,783 | 3 |
| Central City | 432 | 2,621 | 16 |
| Mid-City | 359 | 1,982 | 21 |
| Tulane–Gravier | 131 | 2,124 | 20 |
| 7th Ward | 297 | 1,913 | 8 |
| Tremé | 196 | 1,509 | 5 |
| Lower Garden District | 208 | 1,324 | — |
| Viavant–Venetian Isles · New Orleans East | 42 | 1,455 | 58 |
| Little Woods · New Orleans East | 416 | 1,073 | 8 |
| St. Roch | 169 | 1,191 | 10 |
| Desire Area · New Orleans East | 63 | 1,236 | 8 |
| French Quarter | 294 | 945 | — |
| Tall Timbers–Brechtel · the West Bank | 173 | 1,055 | 2 |
| Gert Town | 65 | 1,075 | 10 |
| Gentilly Terrace · Gentilly | 98 | 891 | — |
| Old Aurora · the West Bank | 179 | 735 | 2 |
| Audubon · Uptown | 128 | 765 | — |
| St. Claude | 154 | 705 | 6 |
| B.W. Cooper | 18 | 790 | 1 |
| Read Blvd East · New Orleans East | 90 | 691 | 4 |
Across the city that is 6.9 vehicles broken into a day and
42.6 collisions a day, every day, for 990 days straight.
All 61 neighborhoods with their own numbers ·
The break-in map ·
The collision map
Why the neighborhood changes the job
It is not the same problem in every part of town, and the numbers above say so plainly.
In the Central Business District the dominant event is the collision — 3,783
of them against 585 break-ins. That is a windshield city: laminated glass,
often with a camera bracket behind the mirror. In parts of New Orleans East the ratio flips
and the overnight break-in leads. That is a tempered-glass job: vacuum the pellets, replace the
door glass, check the regulator the thief bent getting in.
It also changes where the work happens. Of the 295 licensed motor-trade
businesses, 274 sit inside a named neighborhood — and they are not spread evenly.
Long stretches of the city have none at all, which is the entire reason mobile service exists here.
How mobile glass service works in New Orleans
Before you call your insurer
Two things are worth knowing, and neither depends on which shop you use.
Glass usually sits under comprehensive, not collision. A break-in, a rock off a dump
truck on the Pontchartrain Expressway, a branch after a storm — those are comprehensive claims.
Whether it makes sense to file one depends on your deductible against the cost of the glass, and
that is a number only your policy can tell you. Ask for it before you decide.
A police report exists whether or not you asked for one. If the NOPD was called to your
break-in, the call is in the record — it is where the 6,798 figure on this page comes
from. Insurers ask for the item number. Get it at the time; it is far more work later.
We do not quote prices on this site and we do not estimate them, because the real number
depends on your glass, your sensors and your policy. What we can do is put your request in front
of a shop that works your part of the city.
Questions people actually ask
Can a cracked windshield be repaired instead of replaced?
Sometimes. Repair works on a chip or a short star that has not run, is not in the driver's direct line of sight, and is not close to the edge of the glass. Resin is injected into the break to stop it spreading and to restore most of the clarity. Once a crack has travelled — especially to the edge, where the windshield takes structural load — replacement is the honest answer.
Why did my side window turn into thousands of little pieces?
Because it is tempered glass, and that is exactly what it is designed to do. It is heat-treated so that when it fails it breaks into small pellets with blunt edges instead of long blades. It is a safety feature. It also means there is nothing to repair: the window is replaced, and the shop vacuums the door cavity, because pellets sitting in the bottom of the door will rattle for years.
Is the windshield different?
Completely. A windshield is laminated — two layers of glass bonded to a sheet of plastic in between. In a crash it holds together rather than letting go, which is why it cracks and stars instead of collapsing, and why it is part of the car's structure rather than just a window.
My car has a camera behind the mirror. Does that change anything?
Yes. Many vehicles put the forward-facing camera for lane keeping and automatic braking on the windshield itself. Move the glass and the camera moves with it, which means the system has to be recalibrated afterwards. When you ask for a quote, say the year, make and model so the shop knows before it arrives whether that is part of the job.
Do I have to leave the car somewhere?
Not always. A lot of glass work in New Orleans is mobile — the van comes to the car. That matters here because whole neighborhoods have no shop of their own, and because a car with a smashed window should not be left on the street waiting for an appointment.
How quickly should a broken side window be dealt with?
Faster than most people think, and not because of the glass. An open window in New Orleans means the next rain is inside the car, and a vehicle that has already been broken into, sitting open on the same street, is a vehicle that gets visited again. If it cannot be done the same day, cover the opening and park it somewhere different.
Where do the numbers on this site come from?
Two open registers published by the City of New Orleans: Active Occupational Licenses, for who is allowed to do this work, and NOPD Calls for Service, for what is breaking and where. The window is January 2024 through September 16, 2026. We read 295 licences and placed 274 of them inside the city's own neighborhood boundaries. Nothing on this site is an estimate.
Sources: City of New Orleans Active Occupational Licenses (dataset iqay-p646) and
NOPD Calls for Service, one dataset per year. Window: January 2024 through September 16, 2026, which is 990 days.
Incidents were placed inside the city's own 72 Neighborhood Statistical Areas using the published boundaries.
21 licences carry no usable coordinates and are counted in the city totals but not in any
neighborhood. Read how we use city data.