Vehicles We Repair: RVs, Campers, Vans, Trucks and Fleets

Most shops pick a lane. A collision shop takes cars. An RV dealer takes the brands it sells. A truck yard takes chassis work and sends the body out. OCRV Center was built the other way around: one 35,000 square foot facility with the door height, the lift capacity and the paint booth length to take a 45 foot coach, a school bus, a Sprinter and a Rivian, and the trade mix to finish all of them under one roof.

The catalogue is organised into seven families. Each one gets its own page, and every vehicle type inside it gets its own page too, because a Class C cabover and a curtain side body fail in completely different ways and deserve to be written about separately.

• RVs and Motorhomes: Class A gas coaches, diesel pushers, Class B vans, Class C and Super C, luxury coaches, expedition rigs, vintage restorations, bus conversions and skoolies.
• Campers and Trailers: pop ups, teardrops, A frames, truck campers, fifth wheels, toy haulers, park models, travel trailers, destination trailers, utility and enclosed cargo trailers.
• Vans and Camper Vans: Sprinter, ProMaster and Transit, cargo and extended cargo, high cube, low roof, armoured, modular and camper conversions.
• Commercial and Heavy Vehicles: commercial trucks, semi tractors, flatbeds, box trucks, curtain side, beverage, parcel and furniture bodies, reefers and dump bodies.
• Buses and Fleet Vehicles: school, transit and shuttle buses, paratransit vans, fire apparatus, ambulances, police units, tow trucks, refuse trucks, street sweepers, bucket and utility bodies.
• Specialty and Electric Vehicles: Rivian R1T and R1S, electric delivery vehicles and hybrid fleet units.
• Mobile Business Vehicles: food trucks, coffee builds, medical clinics, pet grooming vans, offices, workshops, salons, retail and catering trucks, command centres and photography studios.

Two vehicles can take the same impact at the same speed and need two entirely different repairs, because the thing absorbing the hit is built differently. That is the whole argument for writing a separate page per vehicle type instead of one generic body shop page.

Monocoque against body on frame

A Sprinter shell carries its load in the skin and the ribs. A Class A coach carries it in a steel cage with fiberglass hung on the outside. Pulling a dent on the first is sheet metal work. On the second it is a bond line question.

Bonded against fastened

Aluminium intensive bodies and composite delivery vans are riveted and adhesive bonded. You cannot MIG weld them back the way you would a steel truck cab, and the panel joint dictates the repair method before anyone picks up a tool.

Housed systems

An RV, a camper and a food truck all carry plumbing, LP, 12 volt and 120 volt systems behind the wall you are about to open. A body repair on any of them is also a systems job, which is why the RV systems estimate is a separate line at $150, applied as a credit against an authorized repair.

Roof geometry

A one piece EPDM roof, a fiberglass cap, a translucent box truck panel and a bonded high cube cap all leak in different places and are all resealed differently.

Posted collision bands run from $750 to $50,000 on a camper body, $1,000 to $150,000 on a motorhome and $1,500 to $50,000 on a fleet unit, with labour anywhere from 5 to 800 hours depending on what is bent. Every band is published on the prices page.

Size is the first thing that turns work away elsewhere, so it is worth being blunt about it. The Yorba Linda facility runs 35,000 square feet of covered bays with the interior height for a 13 foot 6 inch box, a paint booth long enough to shoot a full coach body rather than section it, and lift capacity for medium duty chassis. That is why owners drive in from across Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego for the specialty work.

Throughput sits at 50 to 150 repairs a month, 100 to 150 maintenance jobs a month, roughly 20 collision files a month and 50 to 100 paint jobs a month, per OCRV Center scheduling records. Those numbers matter to you as a customer for one reason: a shop that only sees two coaches a year is learning on your coach.

All work is performed in shop. That is deliberate. The booth, the frame equipment, the welders, the lifts and the parts staging are here, and a structural repair done properly needs all of them in the same building. Getting here from Tustin is the 55 to the 91 or the 5 to the 57, depending on traffic. See the service area page for the drive.

Being clear about scope saves everyone a wasted trip. OCRV Center performs body, paint, structural, interior, equipment install and RV systems work. Engine and drive system work is not performed here, and neither is roadworthiness certification or tailpipe compliance testing. On a commercial truck or a bus that boundary is firm: the cab, the body, the box, the paint, the mounted equipment and the structure are ours, the powertrain belongs to a chassis shop.

On an RV, camper or van the scope is much broader, because the coach systems are part of the body. Slides, awnings, roofs, water, waste, LP, furnaces, water heaters, air conditioning, inverters, converters, house batteries, solar and generators are all in house. The dividing line is the chassis engine, not the house.

Estimates follow the same honesty. Collision estimates carry no charge for insurance walk ins. An RV systems evaluation covering slide, awning, water, electrical and generator is $150, applied as a credit against an authorized repair. An in depth diagnostic is 1 hour at $285, applied as a credit. Nothing on that list is a sales gimmick, and nothing on it is padded.

Ninety five of them. If you know what you own, go straight to it. If you are somewhere in between two descriptions, the category page will sort you out.

Coaches. Gas Class A on an F53 or Workhorse chassis, diesel pushers on Freightliner and Spartan rails, Class B camper vans, Class C cutaways, Super C on a medium duty truck chassis, compact Class C, luxury full body paint coaches, expedition and off road rigs, vintage restorations, Prevost and Marathon conversions, skoolies.

Towables. Tent trailers, teardrops, A frames, slide in and flatbed truck campers, pop top and hard side campers, folding and modular campers, rooftop tents, overland campers, standard and bunkhouse fifth wheels, toy hauler fifth wheels, luxury destination fifth wheels, park models, ultra lite fifth wheels, travel trailers, expandable and hybrid trailers, off road trailers, destination trailers, tiny home trailers, utility trailers and enclosed cargo trailers.

Working vehicles. Sprinters and their conversions, ProMaster and Transit, cargo, extended and high cube vans, low roof and armoured vans, electric delivery vans, box and curtain side trucks, beverage and parcel bodies, reefers, flatbeds, dump bodies, semi tractors, school and transit and shuttle buses, paratransit vans, fire apparatus, ambulances, police units, tow trucks, refuse and recycling trucks, street sweepers, snow plough trucks, bucket and utility bodies, water and sewer units, traffic signal trucks, forestry rigs and command vehicles.

Businesses on wheels. Food trucks, coffee builds, catering and retail trucks, medical clinics, pet grooming vans, offices, workshops, salons and spas, tool sales trucks, tech vans, photography studios and command centres.

Bring the vehicle in. Hours are Monday to Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday 9:30am to 3:00pm, closed Sunday. An estimator walks the unit with you, photographs the damage, and writes the file against the posted rates: $210 an hour body and paint, $260 an hour mechanical and electrical, $285 an hour diagnostics, $95 an hour detail.

If a carrier is involved, the file goes direct. OCRV Center bills Progressive, GEICO, State Farm, AAA SoCal, AAA Enterprises, Mercury, Allstate, American Family, Wawanesa, National General, CSAA, Foremost, Liberty Mutual, Tesla, Cincinnati and AGWS among others. The insurance section walks through what an adjuster will and will not volunteer.

Jobs over $2,000 take a 50 percent deposit at authorization, with a further 25 percent when parts arrive on anything over $10,000. Final balance is due at pickup. Special order parts require a deposit at order because they cannot be returned. We stand behind our work, and you will be told what a repair costs before it starts, not after. Request a Quote or pick your vehicle type above and read what your repair actually involves.