Van Body Shop Serving Placentia, California

We work full-size European and domestic vans: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Ford Transit, Ram ProMaster, Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana. That covers standard roof, high roof, extended wheelbase, crew and passenger configurations, plus cutaway chassis carrying a fiberglass box on the back.

Beyond the factory vans we handle upfitted and specialty builds: camper conversions with solar and lithium, shelved contractor vans, refrigerated bodies, high cube box vans, battery electric delivery vans and armored cash-in-transit units. Each one gets a different teardown plan and a different reassembly checklist.

The shop keeps full-height bays, a paint booth sized for tall bodies, frame and chassis measuring equipment and lift capacity for loaded commercial vans. Nothing about a 10-foot-tall high roof forces us to send the job somewhere else.

After any meaningful impact we put the van on measuring equipment and compare rail, datum and centerline points against factory specification. On a Sprinter or Transit that measurement is what tells us whether a sliding door is binding because of a worn roller or because the opening itself has moved.

Panel geometry on a van is unforgiving. The sides are long, flat and lightly crowned, so a crease that would disappear on a sedan quarter reads as a visible wave down eight feet of sheet metal. We straighten to the substrate rather than filling, then block and check under raking light before primer.

Body panel supply is a real scheduling factor on European vans. Slider doors, rocker sections, wheel arch repair panels and high roof skins can carry long lead times, so we order early, document the wait for the carrier and stage the teardown around actual part arrival instead of guessing.

We photograph and document at intake, then write the estimate with the supplement already anticipated. Hidden damage behind a rocker or under a shelving package is normal on vans, and carriers move faster when the supporting photos were taken before the first fastener came out.

Shelving, partitions, racks, ladder mounts and interior liners are removed, tagged and stored, then reinstalled to the original mounting pattern. On a fleet van we record the shelf layout so the driver gets back the same working van, not a reorganized one that costs an hour a day to relearn.

For multi-van fleets we stage repairs so only one or two units are down at a time. All work happens in-shop at Yorba Linda where the booth, the lifts and the measuring equipment live, with drop-off and pickup scheduled around your route hours.