Full Vehicle Paint Jobs for RVs and Trucks in Yorba Linda

The test is adhesion, not appearance. We tape lift and cross hatch test the existing clear in several places. If the clear releases under tape at multiple locations across the vehicle, the coating has failed as a system and anything sprayed next to it will outlive it by a decade while the old paint keeps peeling.

The second trigger is coverage. Once repair areas exceed roughly a third of a given surface, blending them individually costs more in hours than refinishing that surface outright, and it produces a patchwork of blend edges that will show differently as everything ages.

The third is color change. There is no partial path to a different color on a vehicle. Door jambs, compartment openings, cap undersides and roof edges all have to be addressed or the old color announces itself every time a bay door opens.

Roughly, on a 45 foot diesel pusher at the top of the range: 30 to 50 hours of disassembly and hardware removal, 40 to 80 hours of sanding and substrate correction, 20 to 60 hours of masking and priming, 20 to 40 hours of actual spray and bake cycles, 25 to 50 hours of cut and polish, and 15 to 30 hours of reassembly and detailing.

Spraying is the smallest block on the list and it is the only part most people picture. This is why quotes from shops that have never painted a coach come in low and end in a dispute. Nobody underestimates the paint. They underestimate the thousand square feet of sanding.

Substrate correction is the wildcard. A coach with clean fiberglass and sound laminate sits at the low end of the sanding block. A coach with gelcoat cracking around every fastener, filled holes from removed accessories and two previous partial repairs sits at the high end and can push past it.

• Disassembly of lights, moldings, awnings, ladders, badges and vents
• Sanding and profiling roughly 800 to 1,400 square feet of surface
• Substrate correction, chip fill, gelcoat crack repair and fastener hole work
• Substrate specific primer and adhesion promoter on flexible components
• Full masking of glass, seals, tires, roof and running gear
• Spray and bake in one continuous session per surface
• Cut, compound and polish across the entire finished vehicle

Yes, and it is one of the more satisfying jobs in the shop. A twenty year old coach with dated swooping graphics in teal and burgundy can leave here as a single tone modern scheme, and it changes the perceived age of the vehicle more than any other single spend.

The practical constraints are jambs and openings. Every bay door, entry door, cargo hatch and slide face has an inside edge and a jamb that has to be addressed for the change to look intentional. Skipping them saves hours and ruins the result the first time someone opens a compartment. We quote them in, and if a customer wants to leave them, that decision is made in writing rather than discovered later.

Graphics on a color change are a separate decision. Reproducing the original design in new colors, designing something new, or going clean with no graphics at all are all viable. That work is quoted under decal and graphics at $500 to $5,500 and 3 to 25 hours depending on complexity.