RV Body and Paint Repair in Houston

Most body shops will not take an RV. The ones that will often treat it like a car, and an RV sidewall is nothing like a car fender. It is a laminated panel: a thin fiberglass skin bonded to foam and a wood or aluminum frame. Pull on it the way you would pull a dent out of steel and you tear the skin off the core.

We repair RV bodies, and we do it every week. We also maintain a working rental fleet, so damaged motorhomes are not an occasional job here.

Class A motorhome after paint and body repair at TX RV Repair Shop in Spring, Texas

Collision and insurance claim work

If someone hit your RV, or you caught a post backing into a site, the repair and the claim are one job and we handle both ends of it. You deal with us. You do not deal with an estimator, a body shop and a parts supplier separately.

Texas law says you choose the shop. Under Texas Insurance Code section 1952.301, your insurer may not limit your choice of repair facility. If you are told you have to use a particular shop, that is not correct. You can bring the RV here.

How a claim usually runs:

  • Photograph the damage before anything is moved, including a wide shot that shows the whole vehicle
  • Open the claim with your insurer and get a claim number
  • Bring the RV to us, or send us the photos first if you are not sure it is drivable
  • We write the estimate and send it to your adjuster with our own photographs
  • Damage behind a panel is normal and is usually found once the panel is opened. That goes back to the adjuster as a supplement, with documentation, before any extra work is done
  • Your deductible is between you and your insurer. We cannot absorb it, waive it or discount it, and any shop that offers to is putting you at risk

We will not tell you what your insurer will pay. We will tell you what the repair takes and put it in writing.

Torn rear corner on an RV with estimator marks, before insurance claim repair

Before. Rear corner torn open, marked up for the claim.

The same RV rear corner rebuilt, painted and refitted after the insurance claim repair

After. Corner rebuilt, refitted and painted.

Impact damage and torn panels

A hard hit to a sidewall or a cargo bay does more than break the outside. The skin tears, the foam core behind it crumbles, and water gets into the wood framing from that day forward. Patching the outside and leaving the core wet is how a repaired panel turns into a soft floor two years later.

The right repair means opening it up, cutting back to sound material, rebuilding the core and the frame, then reskinning and refinishing. It takes longer than a cosmetic patch and it is the only version that lasts.

RV cargo bay door torn open, fiberglass skin and substrate exposed, before collision repair

Before. Skin torn back, foam core and substrate exposed.

Motorhome left side after collision repair, with factory graphics matched straight through the rebuilt panel

After. Panel rebuilt, graphics matched straight through the repair.

Matching the graphics is the hard part

Anyone can fill a crack. The part you will look at for the next ten years is whether the factory graphic runs straight through the repaired panel, and whether the new paint still matches in daylight three summers from now.

That is a matter of getting the color right against sun faded paint, blending into the neighboring panels instead of stopping at a seam, and laying the graphic back so the lines meet. When it is done properly you cannot find the repair. When it is not, it is the first thing anyone sees.

Cracked and gouged fiberglass

Fiberglass cracks travel. A chip from a road strike or a crack starting at the edge of a bay door does not stay the size it is, because the panel flexes every mile you drive. A crack caught early is a small repair. The same crack after a season on the interstate has run the length of the panel.

Cracked and gouged fiberglass lower body panel on a motorhome, before fiberglass repair

Before. Crack and gouging through a lower body panel.

The same motorhome front corner after fiberglass repair, paint and accent stripe restoration

After. Repaired, refinished and the accent stripe put back.

Hail and storm damage

Houston gets hail, and an RV roof and sidewalls take it worse than a car does because there is more flat surface and the skin is thinner. Dimpling across a roof or a front cap is a claim, and it is worth opening one even when the damage looks cosmetic, because hail bruising opens seams that leak later.

If you think you took hail, photograph it and call before the weather makes it worse. We can tell you from photographs whether it is worth a claim.

What we take

  • Collision and impact damage, front, rear and sides
  • Insurance claim work, including writing the estimate and the supplements
  • Hail and storm damage
  • Torn and delaminated sidewalls, front caps and rear caps
  • Cargo bay and compartment door damage
  • Fiberglass and gelcoat repair
  • Full and partial repaints, panel blending and color matching
  • Graphics and decal replacement
  • Fade, chalking and oxidation

What we do not do: cars, trucks and utility trailers, mobile or on site body work, and quotes over the phone for a job nobody has looked at. We will look at photographs and tell you honestly whether it is worth bringing in.

Bring it to us

We are at 21619 Rhodes Rd, Spring, Texas 77388, open Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 4:00pm. Send photographs or bring the RV in and we will tell you what it needs and what it takes to put right.

Call 346-708-4612.