Who we help
Camper Van and Sprinter Conversion Repair for Owners Near Placentia
A converted van is two vehicles in one file: a commercial chassis with dealer parts and procedures, and a custom build with no factory part numbers at all. Dealers handle the first and decline the second. We handle both in shop, which matters when a side impact damages the sliding door track, the galley cabinetry and the solar array in the same event.
Why do dealers and body shops both turn away converted vans?
The split is structural to how those businesses are set up. A dealer service department works from a parts catalog and a procedure database, and a custom build appears in neither. A general body shop works from an estimating system that has no line item for a lithium bank or a bonded galley.
On the chassis side, a Sprinter, Transit or ProMaster is a commercial vehicle with real repair procedures, aluminum and high strength steel sections, sliding door mechanisms, and increasingly a set of driver assistance sensors that need calibration after any work near a bumper, mirror or windshield. That part of the job is conventional, exacting and well documented.
On the build side, nothing is conventional. Wall panels are bonded or screwed to furring, wiring runs behind cabinetry, plumbing sits under a bed platform, and a roof carries solar panels, a fan, an air conditioner and a rack, each penetrating the skin with its own sealant. Damage to the shell means every one of those interfaces gets disturbed and has to be resealed correctly.
Doing both in one facility removes the handoff that costs conversion owners the most time. When a sliding door track, an interior cabinet run and a roof mounted array are all damaged by the same impact, splitting the work across three vendors means three schedules, three estimates and one owner acting as project manager for a job nobody owns end to end.
How do I make sure my build is covered and not just the van?
This is the single highest value thing a conversion owner can do, and it costs nothing but an afternoon. Estimating systems price a cargo van. Your build exists only in the documentation you can produce, so the documentation is what determines whether it makes it into the estimate.
Gather every invoice and work order: the upfitter contract, the solar and lithium invoices, the inverter and charger specifications, the suspension or chassis upgrade paperwork, the insulation and cabinetry receipts, and any electrical schematic your builder produced. A professional conversion often carries more value than the shell it sits in, and none of that is visible in a photo estimate.
Photograph the finished build now, before anything happens to it, in daylight and with the interior lit. Wide shots of each side of the cabin, close ups of the electrical panel with the model plates readable, the roof from above showing every penetration, and the underside if you have a lift available. Store those photographs somewhere that is not inside the van.
During teardown we photograph every component we uncover, record model and serial plates, and submit that documentation with the supplement rather than describing it in text. On a conversion claim the difference between a documented component and an asserted one is frequently thousands of dollars, and it is decided by whether an image exists.
What van work do you actually perform in shop?
Everything from a scraped rocker to a full rebuild of a damaged side, plus the systems work that a collision on a converted van inevitably drags along with it. The point is that a single facility owns the whole job rather than the easy half of it.
Body and structure covers panel replacement and repair, sliding door track and mechanism work, rear door and hinge repair, rocker and lower panel sections, roof skin repair, and correction of chassis geometry where an impact has moved it. Paint is done in shop, including matching factory finishes and reproducing wraps and graphics where the design allows it.
Systems work covers twelve volt and shore power circuits, inverter and charger diagnosis, solar array remounting and resealing, roof fan and air conditioner reseating, plumbing and water system repair, LP line testing where the build includes propane, and heater or diesel heater troubleshooting. Diagnostic time runs at two hundred eighty five dollars for the first hour, applied as a credit.
Interior work covers cabinetry repair and refabrication, wall and ceiling panel replacement, flooring, bed platform and dinette structure, and reinstallation of everything that had to come out to reach the damage. All of it happens at our Yorba Linda facility, about ten minutes from Placentia, with the van in one place from intake to delivery.
What is included
- Sprinter, Transit and ProMaster chassis and body repair to manufacturer procedure
- Sliding door track, mechanism and rear door repair or replacement
- Custom build documentation captured photographically before and during teardown
- Solar array, roof fan and air conditioner removal, remounting and resealing
- Twelve volt, shore power, inverter and charger diagnosis and repair
- Cabinetry, wall panel and interior structure repair and refinishing
Questions we get asked
Will my insurance cover the conversion or only the van?
Can you match the paint on a van with a wrap or custom graphics?
My van has driver assistance sensors. Do those need attention after a repair?
Do you work on vans that are still under a manufacturer service plan?
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Bring it to the shop and we will assess the damage, document it properly for your insurer, and tell you exactly what the repair involves. Serving Placentia and the surrounding area from our 35,000 square foot facility.
All work performed in-shop. We stand behind our work.