RV and Motorhome Repair Serving Placentia, California

Class A coaches are a fiberglass or gel coat front cap bonded to laminated sidewalls over a Ford F53 or Freightliner chassis. Class C rigs sit on an E-450 or Chevy 4500 cutaway with a cabover bunk that carries its own set of stress cracks. Super C rigs move to a Freightliner M2 or Kenworth chassis with air brakes.

Class B camper vans are Sprinter, Transit and ProMaster bodies with a fiberglass high roof or a pop-top, which means unibody panel work and seam repair rather than laminated sidewall work. Bus conversions on MCI, Prevost and Van Hool shells are monocoque structures where a bay door opening is part of the load path.

Skoolies and vintage coaches are their own category. A school bus conversion has a raised roof and welded window delete panels that were often done by the owner. A vintage Airstream or a wood-framed classic needs riveted aluminum skin work and single-stage paint. We size the repair to the vehicle, not to a generic RV template.

The roof-to-sidewall termination bar is the number one leak path on laminated coaches. Dicor lap sealant shrinks and cracks, the butyl under the bar loses adhesion, and water runs down inside the sidewall. We strip the bar, cut back the failed sealant, rebed with butyl and reseal with Dicor or Eternabond depending on the membrane.

Front cap seam separation and corner radius crack propagation show up on Class A and Class C coaches that have flexed over a decade of highway miles. Clearcoat and gel coat failure on the cap follows sun exposure. Both get ground out, reinforced from behind where access allows, refilled and refinished with a multi-stage blend.

Slide-outs are the other big one. Schwintek in-wall rails sag and chew their gear racks, Lippert through-frame and rack-and-pinion systems go out of sync, and the slide topper fabric shreds and lets water sit on the roof of the room. We rebuild the mechanism, re-time the motors and reseal the slide perimeter before the trim goes back on.

We work direct with Progressive, GEICO, State Farm, AAA SoCal, Mercury, Allstate, American Family, Wawanesa, National General, Foremost, Liberty Mutual and others. Direct billing means you are not floating the repair on a credit card while an adjuster catches up on paperwork.

Supplements are normal on RV work and we handle them. A front cap hit that looks like $4,000 of gel coat often turns into laminate repair, a windshield gasket, a compartment door realignment and a blend into the adjacent panels once the cap comes off. We photograph every stage so the supplement is evidence, not argument.

If you are paying out of pocket, the RV systems estimate is $150 and is applied as a credit toward the repair. Diagnostics on an electrical or chassis fault is $285 with a one hour minimum, also applied as a credit. We stand behind our work, and we will tell you plainly when a repair is not worth the money on a given coach.