--- title: "About OCRV Center | RV and Fleet Repair Since 2004" description: "OCRV Center is a 35,000 square foot collision, paint and RV systems facility in Yorba Linda, licensed as BAR ARD00288521 and working at one address since 2004." focus_keyword: "about ocrv center yorba linda" canonical: https://ocrv.me/about/ kind: simple updated: 2026-07-29 source: OCRV Center --- # About OCRV Center, and What a 35,000 Square Foot Floor Buys You > OCRV Center has repaired RVs, trailers, vans and fleet vehicles at one Yorba Linda address since **2004**. Six departments, **35,000 square feet**, and **every repair performed in shop**. ## What kind of shop is OCRV Center? OCRV Center is a collision, structural, paint and RV systems repair facility at 23281 La Palma Ave in Yorba Linda, California, operating since 2004 under BAR licence ARD00288521. It serves Rancho Santa Margarita owners and fleet operators, and every repair, estimate and diagnostic happens on the shop floor. - Independent facility, not a dealership service department - Six departments, sixteen services, seventy three documented jobs - Eighty eight vehicle types and fifty manufacturers indexed on this site - Sixteen insurance carriers billed directly ### Key facts | Item | Value | | --- | --- | | Address | 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887 | | Operating since | 2004 (Same address, same trade) | | Floor space | 35,000 sq ft | | Repair licence | BAR ARD00288521 (California Bureau of Automotive Repair) | | Refinish licence | EPA CAL000367879 | | Service model | In shop only (Nothing is performed at a customer address) | Most owners find this shop because somebody else said no. A dealership service department that only touches what it sold. An automotive body shop that took one look at a thirty eight foot coach and quoted a tow to somewhere else. A general repair outfit that agreed to try and then discovered that a laminated sidewall does not behave like sheet steel. This page is the plain description of what the company is, where it sits, what it is licensed to do and what it deliberately does not do. The detail pages under it go further: the history, the building itself, the five people who sign the work, and how to come work here. ## What the company actually is OCRV Center is an independent repair facility rather than a dealership service department or an automotive body shop that also takes trailers. The distinction is physical, not positional. A dealership repairs what it sold and refers the rest. An automotive shop is tooled for unibody passenger cars. This building is tooled for a laminated sidewall bonded over Azdel, a steel frame rail under a tandem axle fifth wheel, and a house system that runs on twelve volts, one hundred and twenty volts and propane at the same time. Six departments run under one roof, and they exist because the tooling cannot be shared. Sixteen services sit inside those departments, and seventy three specific jobs sit inside those. That is not a content structure invented for a website. It is how bays, certifications and labor rates are divided on the floor, which is why a slide drive job and a gelcoat job are quoted at different hourly rates. - One address since 2004: 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, California 92887 - Thirty five thousand square feet of floor, laid out for full length units - Eighty eight vehicle types documented, from teardrop trailers to fire apparatus - Fifty manufacturers with their own reference pages, from Winnebago to Prevost - Sixteen carriers billed directly, so an owner is not fronting a repair ## Why this work needs a different building A passenger car is one material system: stamped steel or aluminium over a unibody, painted once, at the factory, with a code that still matches. A twelve year old motorhome is three or four material systems on the same side of the vehicle. Gelcoat on the cap. Painted aluminium on the skirt. Filon or laminated fiberglass on the sidewall. Each takes colour differently, cures differently and fails differently, and a shop that treats all of it as bodywork produces a repair you can see from across a parking lot. Then there is the size problem, which is the one owners notice first. Refinishing a coach means the whole unit goes into a booth in one piece, because a joint in fresh clear coat halfway down a sidewall never disappears. Pulling structure on a fifth wheel means anchoring a frame the length of a small truck. Neither of those is a question of skill. It is a question of whether the room is big enough, and most rooms are not. ## The licences, and how to verify them yourself Two numbers matter and both are checkable without asking us. BAR ARD00288521 is the California Bureau of Automotive Repair registration for the facility, which is the licence that governs how estimates are written, how authorizations are obtained and what a customer is entitled to see. EPA CAL000367879 covers the refinish side: coating handling, filtration and disposal. Both are posted on site and both appear on paperwork. Ask any shop for its BAR number before you leave a vehicle. A registered facility gives it to you immediately because it is public. Hesitation is information. The same applies to the estimate itself: California requires your written authorization before work begins and requires that additional work be authorized separately, which is exactly why a supplement on a claim file is documented rather than assumed. - BAR ARD00288521, searchable through the Bureau of Automotive Repair - EPA CAL000367879, governing refinish and coating handling - Written authorization taken before work starts, and again for added scope - Removed parts kept for inspection on request ## Who is accountable for a repair here One file, one named point of contact, and a department lead who signs the technical release. That arrangement exists because the alternative, a rotating queue where the answer depends on who picks up, is how a claim loses two weeks. On a retail repair with a claim attached, the claims coordinator holds the file and pulls in whichever technical lead is needed. On a commercial account the fleet manager holds every unit permanently. The leads are described in detail on their own page, including what each is certified for. The short version is that the person who writes your scope is not the person who sprays your coach, and that separation is deliberate: an estimate written by production reflects what a bench has capacity for this week rather than what the vehicle needs. ## What this shop does not do Stating limits is more useful than listing capabilities, so here they are. We do not offer mobile repair and there is no roadside option, because a frame rack, a downdraft booth and a filtration system do not travel. There is no satellite drop yard. Every estimate, diagnostic and repair happens at the Yorba Linda address during posted hours, and the reasons are physical rather than commercial. There is also work that belongs to somebody else. Engine internals on a diesel pusher go to a chassis specialist. Transmission rebuilds are not this trade. Tire mounting and wheel service are not either, although structural correction that changes an alignment reading is. Where a job belongs elsewhere we say so at intake, before a deposit is taken, because sending a unit to the wrong building wastes a week of somebody's summer. ## The rest of the company pages Everything below goes deeper on one part of the operation. The history page explains why the shop is arranged the way it is. The facility page walks the building and its equipment. The process page is the ten step sequence a repair actually follows, and the numbers page is every countable claim on this site with its source. - Our story: what the shop decided, in what order, and what it cost to learn - The facility: the booth, the rack, the bays and what the building cannot do - Meet the team: five department leads and what each one is certified for - Why choose us: the honest comparison against a general automotive shop - Careers: what the benches do and how an application reaches a lead - Statistics: every number this site publishes, with where it comes from ## Questions and answers ### Is OCRV Center a dealership service department or an independent shop? Independent. Nothing is sold here, which means there is no incentive to steer a repair toward a replacement unit and no brand whose work gets priority. It also means parts are sourced on merit rather than from one manufacturer's catalogue, and that a discontinued component gets chased rather than used as a reason to declare the job impossible. ### How long has the shop operated at the La Palma Avenue address? Since 2004, in the same trade the whole time. That matters practically rather than sentimentally: a building that has been doing structural and refinish work in one place for two decades has the equipment paid for, the local carrier relationships established, and a set of repair files going back far enough to know how a given failure actually ages. ### Do you take commercial vehicles as well as recreational ones? Yes, and they are roughly half the floor. Box trucks, transit buses, refuse trucks, ambulances, fire apparatus, utility bodies, food trucks and upfitted work vans all come through. Commercial accounts bill on purchase order or net thirty terms and get scheduled around an operating calendar rather than dropped off when convenient. ### What does the BAR licence number on your paperwork actually cover? It registers the facility with the California Bureau of Automotive Repair, which sets the rules for how repair estimates and authorizations work in this state. Under those rules you authorize the work in writing before it starts, you authorize additional work separately, and you may ask to see replaced parts. ARD00288521 is the number to check. ### Can I walk the floor before I authorize any work? Yes, during posted hours and with an escort, because the floor has a rack under load and a booth running. Most owners who ask end up standing next to their own unit while a lead points at what was measured. That conversation resolves more doubt in ten minutes than any amount of paperwork. --- Source: [OCRV Center](https://ocrv.me/about/). Last verified 2026-07-29.