# Van and Camper Van Repair for Tustin Owners and Fleets

> OCRV Center repairs Sprinter, ProMaster, Transit, high-cube, extended, low-roof, armored, modular and electric delivery vans, plus camper van conversions, at a 35,000 square foot shop in Yorba Linda serving Tustin. Work covers collision and structural repair, refinishing, sliding and barn doors, roof reinforcement, shelving, insulation, twelve volt systems and full custom build outs. Every job is performed in shop.

Source: https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/
Business: OCRV Center, 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. (949) 799-3387. Serving Tustin, California.
Ballpark range: $1,500 to $40,000. Posted rates at https://ocrv.biz/prices/

## Which vans come through the Yorba Linda bays?

A van is the one vehicle class where two units can share a chassis, a wheelbase and a paint code and still need completely different repair plans. One is empty steel with a rubber mat and a bulkhead. The next has a lithium bank under the bed platform, a fan cut into the roof and cabinets lagged into the sidewall. Before anyone touches the outside of the van, the estimate has to account for what is bolted inside it.

These are the ten van types the shop writes estimates against most often for Tustin owners and Orange County fleets:

- [Sprinter Vans, all conversions](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/sprinter-van-repair/): Mercedes, Dodge and RAM badged, standard and high roof, 144 and 170 wheelbase.
- [Camper Van Conversions](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/camper-van-conversion-repair/): factory and aftermarket builds carrying house power, heat and a finished interior.
- [Cargo Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/cargo-van-repair/): working fleet units with shelving, partitions and daily door damage.
- [High-Cube Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/high-cube-van-repair/): raised composite roof caps bonded to the steel roof rail.
- [Extended Cargo Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/extended-cargo-van-repair/): long wheelbase units with a rear overhang that finds parking structure posts.
- [Low-Roof Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/low-roof-van-repair/): shallow crown roof panels that go wavy if a dent is filled instead of pulled.
- [Electric Delivery Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/electric-delivery-van-repair/): high voltage layouts that change where a panel can be welded.
- [Armored Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/armored-van-repair/): ballistic panels and laminated glass adding weight the body never carried stock.
- [Modular Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/modular-van-repair/): rail mounted interiors built to be swapped between duty cycles.
- [ProMaster and Transit Vans](/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/promaster-transit-repair/): front drive and rear drive platforms, each with its own panel behaviour.

## What makes a van body harder to straighten than a car body

A van is a unibody with an enormous hole cut in one side of it. The sliding door aperture removes most of what would be the B pillar on a passenger car, so the load path from the front rail has to travel through the rocker, up the rear pillar and across the roof rail instead of straight through the middle of the vehicle. Hit the front corner hard enough and the damage shows up at the top of the rear door aperture, six feet behind the impact.

That is why a van with anything more than cosmetic damage gets measured rather than eyeballed. Door gaps at the sliding door and the barn doors are the tell: if the top gap and the bottom gap differ across the aperture, the shell is out of square and no amount of hinge adjustment fixes it. Pulling it back means anchoring the rocker and rear pillar and working the shell in stages, checking gaps between each pull.

Frame and structural work of this kind falls in the **$750 to $20,000** band across 5 to 80 hours of labor, and the posted figures live on the [prices page](/prices/). Straightening comes before refinishing, always, because a panel refinished on a shell that is still out of square will crack the sealer at the seams within a few months of use.

Roof structure deserves the same caution. On a high roof unit the roof is a long unsupported span carrying nothing but its own weight and whatever rack is bolted to it. Once it is deformed it will not simply spring back, and a roof that was pushed down in the middle changes the plane the rack rails sit on.

## Labor hours behind the common van operations

Every line below is a real posted band. Where a van lands inside the band depends on how much of the interior has to come out first, which is the single largest variable in van estimating.

| Operation | Ballpark range | Labor hours 

| Collision repair and refinish | $1,500 to $40,000 | 10 to 200 hours 
| Sliding door repair: track, roller, latch, power | $400 to $3,500 | 2 to 14 hours 
| Rear barn door service and latch repair | $300 to $2,500 | 1 to 10 hours 
| Cargo shelving and racking install | $750 to $7,500 | 4 to 30 hours 
| Custom build out, camper or mobile office | $5,000 to $80,000 | 40 to 400 hours 
| ADAS scan and recalibration | $275 to $1,800 | 1 to 7 hours 

Body and paint labor is posted at $210 per hour, mechanical and electrical at $260 per hour, and diagnostics at $285 per hour with the first hour applied as a credit against an authorized repair. Paint supplies run $55 per paint hour, body supplies $5 per body hour, and a $45 hazmat charge covers disposal. Sales tax of 7.75 percent applies to parts and materials, not to labor.

## What has to come out before a panel comes off

On a car, a quarter panel repair starts at the panel. On a van it starts three steps earlier. Shelving from Adrian Steel, Ranger Design or Weather Guard bolts through the sidewall into captive nuts and sometimes into holes an upfitter drilled. Those fasteners sit exactly where a backside dolly needs to go, so the racking comes out, gets tagged and goes back in on the same holes.

Behind the racking there is usually a wall liner, then insulation, then the raw sidewall. On a finished conversion add cabinetry, a headliner, wiring runs and sometimes plumbing. A repair that is eight hours of metal work can carry another twelve hours of removal and refit before the metal work starts, which is why two vans with identical dents can be quoted hundreds of dollars apart.

The same logic applies to the floor. A cargo floor and liner install runs 2 to 18 hours on its own; if a rocker or lower quarter has to be replaced, that floor is coming up regardless. Bulkheads and partitions are quicker at 2 to 10 hours, but they still have to be released before the rear of the cab is accessible.

Every removed component gets photographed and bagged by location. Fleet vans especially come in with upfits that were modified after delivery, and putting a partition back one bay forward of where it lived is the kind of small error that costs a driver a whole route.

## Booking a van in from Tustin

The shop sits at 23281 La Palma Ave in Yorba Linda, a straight run from Tustin on the 55 to the 91. Hours are Monday to Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday 9:30am to 3:00pm, closed Sunday. There is no charge for insurance walk ins, and the shop bills Progressive, GEICO, State Farm, AAA SoCal, Mercury, Allstate, Wawanesa, Liberty Mutual and Tesla directly, so a fleet manager is not chasing paperwork between two parties.

For work that is not an insurance claim, a collision quote starts with photos and a walk of the vehicle. Jobs over $2,000 take a 50 percent deposit at authorization, jobs over $10,000 take an additional 25 percent when parts land, and the balance is due at pickup. Special order parts, which is most upfit hardware, carry a deposit at order.

If a van is off the road, say so when you book. Sequencing matters more than raw capacity here: the shop turns roughly 20 collisions and 50 to 100 paint jobs a month per OCRV Center scheduling records, and a fleet unit with a hard return date gets slotted around parts arrival rather than sitting in a queue. We stand behind our work. Request a Quote through the [contact page](/contact/), or read how claims are handled on the [insurance page](/insurance/).

## What is included

- A written estimate with photographs, panel by panel, before any work is authorized
- Removal, tagging and refit of shelving, partitions and cargo flooring as the repair requires
- Color match by spray out card checked against the actual panel, not the paint code alone
- Corrosion protection on any bare, welded or ground steel before the panel is sealed
- Post repair ADAS scan and recalibration whenever a camera or radar module was disturbed
- Direct billing to Progressive, GEICO, State Farm, Mercury, Allstate and AAA SoCal

## Questions

### Do you work on camper van conversions built by someone else?

Yes. Aftermarket and owner built conversions come in regularly. The build quality varies enormously, so the estimate starts with an inspection of how the interior is attached to the shell, because that determines how much has to come apart to reach the damage.

### Can you repaint one panel and have it match the rest of the van?

On a van, rarely. Long flat sides show a paint edge badly, so the color is sprayed out on a card, checked against the actual panel in daylight, and then blended into the adjacent panel. Color match blending runs $500 to $5,000 depending on how many panels the blend touches.

### Does the shop do engine or drive system work on vans?

No. This is a body, paint, structural, interior and systems shop. Brake, suspension, electrical and body work are performed here. Engine and drive system repairs go to a mechanical specialist, and the shop will tell you plainly when a job falls outside its scope.

### How long will my van be in the shop?

A sliding door track and roller job is often two to four days. A quarter panel replacement with a full blend is usually one to two weeks. A conversion where the interior has to come out and go back in can run several weeks, and parts lead time is normally the deciding factor rather than labor.

### Do you handle whole fleets rather than single vans?

Yes. Fleet collision and refinish work is a large share of the schedule, including staged intake so a company is not missing several units at once. Fleet color matching across vehicles of different ages is handled by spraying to the panel rather than to the original paint code.

## Related

- [Vehicles We Repair](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/)
- [Sprinter Vans (All Conversions)](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/sprinter-van-repair/)
- [Camper Van Conversions](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/camper-van-conversion-repair/)
- [Cargo Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/cargo-van-repair/)
- [High-Cube Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/high-cube-van-repair/)
- [Extended Cargo Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/extended-cargo-van-repair/)
- [Low-Roof Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/low-roof-van-repair/)
- [Electric Delivery Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/electric-delivery-van-repair/)
- [Armored Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/armored-van-repair/)
- [Modular Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/modular-van-repair/)
- [ProMaster and Transit Vans](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/vans-camper-vans/promaster-transit-repair/)
- [Collision Repair](https://ocrv.biz/services/collision-repair/)
- [Paint and Refinishing](https://ocrv.biz/services/paint-refinishing/)
- [Custom Fabrication](https://ocrv.biz/services/custom-fabrication/)
- [Prices and Posted Rates](https://ocrv.biz/prices/)