The company
The Shop Lake Forest Owners Tow To
The honest summary is that this is a specialist building before it is anything else. A forty five foot coach with a raised roof either fits through the door or it does not, and no amount of skill compensates for a bay that is too short. Everything below describes what the building can do, how work moves through it, and who owns which decision.
The figures
- Operating since
- 1989
- OCRV Center has been repairing recreational and commercial vehicles since 1989. That matters less as a marketing line than as a parts and procedure archive: coaches built in the nineties and early two thousands are still on the road, still taking damage, and still needing panels that nobody stocks.
- Square feet of facility
- 35,000
- The OCRV Center facility covers 35,000 sq ft in Yorba Linda. Square footage on a recreational vehicle shop is really a statement about clearance and length, because a forty five foot coach with a raised roof needs door height, bay length and turning room that a conventional collision shop does not have.
- Repairs completed monthly
- 50 to 150
- OCRV Center completes 50 to 150 repairs in a typical month, spanning everything from a compartment door to a full structural rebuild. The range is wide on purpose, because a month with three major reconstructions in the bays looks very different from a month of seals, roofs and refinish work.
- Five star reviews
- 200+
- OCRV Center carries 200+ five-star reviews across its public review profiles. Reviews on work of this size tend to be written after delivery rather than in the moment, which is a slower feedback loop than a quick lube shop gets and a more useful one.
- Average review rating
- 4.8
- The published average for OCRV Center sits at 4.8 out of 5. On repairs that routinely run six to twelve weeks and involve a third party paying most of the bill, an average in that range says more about communication during the wait than about the finished paint.
- Longest coach the bays accept
- 45 ft
- OCRV Center takes vehicles up to roughly 45 feet, which covers essentially every production Class A coach and most commercial bodies. Length is the constraint that quietly disqualifies most collision shops, and it is the first question worth asking any facility before towing anything to it.
Figures reflect the OCRV Center facility in Yorba Linda.
Read further
01 History
Our Story
How a body shop ended up specialising in vehicles most body shops cannot fit indoors.
02 Method
Our Process
The eight stages a vehicle moves through, from condition record to final water test.
03 Capability
Why Choose Us
Door height, booth length, composite skill and claim documentation, stated plainly.
04 Departments
The Departments
Seven functions under one roof, described by what they own rather than by who they are.
05 Building
The Facility
Bays, booth, frame rack and composite room, and what each one makes possible.
06 Outcomes
Repair Outcomes
Written condition records from real repairs, since we publish no photography yet.
Departments at a glance
No individual is named anywhere on this site and there are no staff photographs to publish. Roles and functions are what matter when you are deciding where to send a vehicle, so that is what we list. The department page covers each one properly.
- Body and Structural. Panel repair, sectioning, framing and chassis correction
- Paint and Refinish. Color matching, surface prep, spray and finish quality
- Fiberglass and Composite. Molded caps, gelcoat, laminate repair and delamination
- Mechanical and Electrical. 12V and 120V systems, generators, LP and appliances
- Interior and Finish. Cabinetry, flooring, upholstery, panels and reassembly
- Estimating and Claims. Scope writing, supplements and carrier correspondence
- Quality Control and Delivery. Final verification, water testing and handover
What people ask us to prove
- 01
Bays built around a forty five foot vehicle
This is a facility problem before it is a skill problem. A Class A coach with a raised roof needs door height that most collision shops do not have, bay length that most shops cannot clear, and turning room to get a forty five foot vehicle positioned without a fifteen point maneuver. A general body shop in south Orange County usually cannot take the vehicle in the door at all, and a dealership service drive is sized for the units it sells rather than the ones it does not. Ask any shop for its door height and usable bay length before you tow anything to it. The answer tells you most of what you need to know.
- 02
A paint booth long enough to shoot a whole side
Refinishing a coach in sections produces a coach that looks refinished in sections. A motorhome sidewall can run thirty five feet with no body line, no seam and a large radius that shows every transition edge under direct sun. Shooting that surface in one pass with consistent gun distance, consistent film build and controlled flash times is what makes a repair disappear. Booths sized for passenger vehicles force a shop to break the panel into segments and hope the joins fall somewhere nobody looks. Southern California sun does not cooperate with that hope, and the seam shows within a season.
- 03
Actual experience with bonded sandwich construction
A recreational vehicle sidewall is not sheet metal. It is an outer skin of fiberglass or filon, an adhesive layer, block foam or lauan core, aluminum tube framing and an interior finish panel, all bonded under pressure and getting its stiffness from the glue line the way a plywood beam does. Repairing it means knowing how to find bond failure by tap testing, how far past the visible dent the separation usually runs, when injection and vacuum clamping will hold and when the skin has to be cut and sectioned. A shop that has only worked steel unibody will treat the dent as the damage, because on their normal vehicle it is.
- 04
Fiberglass and composite work performed on site
Molded caps, fender skirts, compartment doors and radius corners are fiberglass, and fiberglass repair is a separate craft from metal collision work. Doing it in house means the crack mapping, tap testing, grinding, glass schedule, layup and fairing all happen where the vehicle is, on the shop's schedule. Sending composite work to a third party adds transport time on both ends to the part that is already the longest item in the repair, and it puts a hand off between the person who assessed the damage and the person fixing it. On a discontinued cap where replacement tooling no longer exists, in house repair is frequently the only path that finishes this year.
The remaining points sit on why owners choose this shop.
Bring it to the shop from Lake Forest
Collision, paint, fiberglass, roof, slide and systems work, all performed at the Yorba Linda facility. Tell us the vehicle and what happened and we will schedule intake.