RV, Camper and Commercial Body Shop Serving Eastvale, California

Nine categories, 70 services, one schedule

A unit needing structure, refinish, a roof section and an electrical repair does not get split across four vendors and four calendars. That is the whole argument for a building this size.

How a unit moves through the shop

1. 01

   Intake and walk around

   A vehicle arriving from Eastvale gets logged, photographed from every quarter and walked with an estimator before anything is opened. We record what the owner reports, what the paperwork says and what the metal and laminate actually show, because those three accounts rarely agree. Length, height, roof type, wall construction and slide count all go on the sheet, since those four numbers decide which bay the unit lives in and which trades touch it.

   • Odometer, generator hours, tire date codes and existing unrelated damage recorded before the keys change hands
   • Claim number, adjuster contact and policy declaration page copied if a carrier is involved
   • Collision estimates are complimentary; an RV systems estimate covering slides, awnings, water, electrical and generators is $150 and credits back against an authorized repair
   • A bay assignment and a rough turnaround tier go on the board the same day
2. 02

   Teardown and blueprint

   Nothing on a laminated body tells the truth from outside. Trim comes off, fasteners come out, and interior panels get pulled until the boundary of the damage is visible rather than assumed. This is where a two panel job becomes a six panel job or, occasionally, where a frightening looking impact turns out to have stopped at the skin. The blueprint that comes out of teardown is the document the rest of the repair is planned against.

   • Moisture readings taken on a grid and written down, not eyeballed
   • Structural members inspected for cracked welds, deflection and prior repair
   • Every hidden item photographed in place before it is disturbed
   • A supplement is written and submitted the same week teardown finishes
3. 03

   Parts, authorization and deposit

   Once the blueprint is complete the parts list is real and can be ordered. Coach panels, molded caps, slide mechanisms and discontinued components drive the calendar far more than shop capacity does, so lead times get quoted honestly and the schedule is built backward from the longest lead item. Authorization happens here. A 50 percent deposit is due on any job over $2,000, with an additional 25 percent when parts arrive on jobs over $10,000.

   • Parts at or under $100 carry a 100 percent markup, parts above $100 carry 35 percent
   • Special order items require a 100 percent non refundable deposit at order placement
   • Salvage and reconditioned sourcing pursued when a molded part is out of production
   • The owner receives the expected parts window in writing before work is scheduled
4. 04

   Structure, laminate and fabrication

   Structural work runs before anything cosmetic. Chassis and unibody damage gets measured and pulled on a rack, sidewall cage members get sectioned and welded at load appropriate points, and delaminated laminate is either injected and clamped or cut back to sound material and rebuilt. Fabrication happens in house, so a bracket, a bumper mount or a compartment frame that no longer exists as a part gets made rather than sourced. Fit is proven with the panel dry hung before adhesive is mixed.

   • Measured pulls documented before, during and after on the same reference points
   • Resin and reinforcement selected for the substrate rather than for convenience
   • Aluminum, steel and composite work handled on the same floor by the same crew
   • Dry fit of every replaced panel before bonding or final fastening
5. 05

   Refinish and systems reassembly

   Refinish and systems work run in parallel once the body is sound. Color is read with a spectrophotometer and proven on a sprayout card under shop light and daylight before a gun points at the vehicle, because a coach carries several colors and a decade of uneven fade. Meanwhile the systems bench brings twelve volt and one hundred twenty volt circuits, plumbing runs, appliances and slide mechanisms back to function and tests each one under load.

   • Sprayout card approved against the adjacent panel before the booth is loaded
   • Blend fields planned into adjacent panels rather than cut at a hard edge
   • Slide rooms re-timed and cycled repeatedly under observation
   • Every circuit disturbed during teardown is tested energized before panels close
6. 06

   Water test, road test and delivery lane

   A repair is not finished because it looks finished. Anything involving a roof, a window, a seam or a slide gets a sustained water test with the interior open and a light behind the suspect area. Drivable units get a road test that includes freeway speed, because a seal that holds in the wash bay can talk at 65 miles per hour. The delivery lane is the last checkpoint, and the owner walks it with the delivery department before paperwork closes.

   • Sustained spray test with interior panels open on any water related repair
   • Road test at surface street and freeway speed on drivable units
   • Cut, polish and final detail after the finish has had time to gas out
   • Balance is due at pickup; a 3.5 percent surcharge applies to card payments over $1,000