RV Paint and Body Services in Yorba Linda

Three reasons, and they compound. Surface area, which multiplies every hour of prep, masking and material. Substrate variety, because one coach may need four different primer systems on four adjacent surfaces. And structural movement, because a house built on a frame twists on every driveway apron and every dip in the road.

That movement is the one nobody accounts for. A car body is a rigid unibody shell that barely deflects. A motorhome sidewall is a bonded laminate attached to a frame that flexes measurably over a speed bump. Paint applied without flex additives on the flexible components, or applied across a joint that is designed to move, will crack along that joint on schedule.

The practical result is that a good RV refinish is planned around where the vehicle moves, not just where it is dirty. Seams, cap to sidewall joints and slide perimeters get treated as expansion features, sealed and finished in a way that tolerates movement instead of fighting it.

• Gelcoat fiberglass on front and rear caps
• Laminated filon or smooth fiberglass sidewalls
• Aluminum sheet siding on older units and Airstream shells
• ABS and TPO fascias, flares and trim requiring adhesion promoter
• Steel and aluminum chassis components and bumpers
• Vinyl graphics and printed decal layers over any of the above

Our posted body and paint rate is $210 per hour. Paint supplies bill at $55 per paint hour and body supplies at $5 per body hour. Every price band on this site is those numbers multiplied by published hours, plus parts at the posted markup.

The bands that matter here: full paint refinish runs $5,000 to $35,000 and up at 40 to 250 hours. Color match blending runs $500 to $5,000 and up at 4 to 25 hours. Decals and graphics run $500 to $5,500 at 3 to 25 hours. Vinyl wrap runs $1,500 to $9,500 at 10 to 40 hours. Cab and body panel repair runs $750 to $12,000 at 5 to 60 hours.

Nothing on that list is a package price. A 24 foot Class C with a scuffed rear cap and a 45 foot diesel pusher with sun destroyed clear across the entire driver side are both listed under refinish, and they are not the same job by an order of magnitude.

Thirty five thousand square feet under roof and two heated downdraft paint booths measuring 65 feet by 20 feet each. A booth that long matters for one specific reason: a coach sprayed in sections, moved, and sprayed again will show a transition where the two sessions meet, because film build, temperature and flash time never match perfectly between sessions.

Downdraft airflow pulls overspray down and away from the wet surface rather than across it. On a thousand square feet of panel that is the difference between a finish that needs light polishing and one that needs to be cut across the whole side. Heat gives us controlled bake cycles instead of waiting on ambient temperature, which is what keeps a 200 hour refinish from becoming a 300 hour one.