Repair Range Estimator

The scope you pick maps to a low and high labor hour band drawn from shop history on comparable work. Those hours are multiplied by a size factor, because access scales faster than damage does. Reaching a crack on a forty foot coach costs more hours than reaching the same crack on a teardrop, and none of that extra time is visible in a photograph.

Body and paint hours bill at the posted body rate. Mechanical and electrical hours bill at the posted mechanical rate. Paint supplies calculate at a fixed figure per paint hour and body supplies at a fixed figure per body hour, exactly as they do on a real ticket. Parts get the published markup, and sales tax is applied to parts and materials only.

What the tool cannot model is the thing that most often moves a real ticket, which is what teardown finds. A photo estimate written before disassembly on a laminated unit is routinely short, and the gap is not a rounding error. It is frequently multiples. That gap is what a written supplement documents.

Use the output to decide the next move rather than to budget to the dollar. If the band says a job is a five figure structural repair rather than a four figure cosmetic one, that changes whether you file, whether you schedule around a trip, and whether the unit is worth keeping. Those are the decisions this is built for.