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Our Story
OCRV Center was established in 2015 to handle work general body shops turn away. Length, height and structural capability on recreational and commercial vehicles require equipment most shops cannot justify, which created a persistent gap in Southern California that this facility was built to fill.
Most businesses start because somebody spots a gap. This one started because owners kept being told no.
A forty foot coach with a bent frame is a problem almost nobody is equipped to solve. Not because the repair is exotic, but because the equipment to anchor, measure and refinish a vehicle that size cannot be justified by a shop that mostly does cars.
Why does this gap exist at all?
Economics. A general collision shop makes its living on passenger vehicles, where bay length, booth size and measuring span are all sized for cars. Taking one motorhome means giving up four car bays and owning equipment that sits idle most weeks.
The result is entirely rational and completely unhelpful to the owner. Coaches get turned away, or worse, accepted by a shop that then attempts a structural repair without measurement because it has no way to measure.
How did publishing rates become part of it?
Out of frustration with the same conversation happening repeatedly. An owner arrives with an estimate from elsewhere, cannot tell whether it is reasonable, and has no way to compare because nobody in the industry publishes anything.
Publishing four labor rates and a labor hour range on every operation ended that conversation. It also had a side effect we did not anticipate: it changed how carriers respond, because a documented published rate is a position rather than an assertion.
What has changed since 2015?
The vehicles, substantially. ADAS arrived on the chassis a coach is built on, which made recalibration a mandatory part of structural work rather than an optional extra. Lithium and solar conversions went from rare to routine, which changed what a van collision claim has to document.
What has not changed is the constraint that started it. Length, structural capability and booth size still decide who can take this work, and that is still why customers drive here from five counties.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long has OCRV Center been operating?
Established in 2015 at the Yorba Linda facility. In shop work spans vintage restorations through current model year Sprinters and Rivians.
Why is the shop in Yorba Linda specifically?
Access and space. Proximity to the 91 and 57 with reach to Interstate 5 and the 405 puts the facility within a manageable drive of most of Southern California, and the site is large enough for the yard a vehicle this size needs.
Do customers really travel from other counties?
Regularly, from Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego. Structural RV capability is not something most towns have.
What is the oldest vehicle you have worked on?
Vintage coaches from the 1950s and 1960s come through regularly. Where panels are no longer manufactured we mould replacements in house from the mirrored side or from a pattern.
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Bring the vehicle to our Yorba Linda facility and we will document the damage properly, work directly with your carrier, and give you a written figure built from published rates and real labor hours.
All work is performed at our Yorba Linda facility. We do not offer mobile, roadside or fleet route service.