Where to find the best RV body shop near me with no wait?
When your RV has been decommissioned by an accident, all you want is to have it back in your possession, and fast. That is why finding a good RV repair shop without any wait times is a major deciding factor.
So what do you do if the RV body shop that your insurance company just recommended can’t take your car in for several months? Allow me to give you a few suggestions.
Call your recommended Dallas Fort Worth shop anyway and get an estimate.
RV body shops try as best as they can to schedule repairs so that they move quickly through their shop, and they take on jobs in the order that they came in, as one might expect. In the case of the backlogs however, shops will get very strategic in how they assign work and will schedule jobs in the order that keeps the wheels turning in the shop. So perhaps they just received a lot of really heavily damaged cars just ahead of you. Your simple bumper and fender job might be just the job they need right now to keep the workload moving so that the bigger jobs don’t bring the workflow to a standstill.
Don’t just take your insurance company adjusters word that the shop you want to use is booked. When you bring your car in for an estimate, you can begin the dialogue with that shop and see if there is a way to squeeze your job in sooner.
Look for an RV body shop with multiple locations in one area.
Sure the facility right down the street might be the most convenient one to you, but if a shop has multiple locations within a major city, it is not uncommon for them to shuttle cars back and fourth between locations in what the auto body shops call “load balancing”.
Many times you can deal with the office near you, while the RV is being repaired at one of the other facilities. When the car is finished, they will tow it back to the location you are working with. A shop with multiple locations might be able to fit your repair in faster when they load balance their weekly or monthly workload. An RV body shop with multiple locations is called an “MSO” meaning multi shop operation. When doing your search for RV body shops with multiple locations, look for MSO’s.
Look for a shop with free pick up and delivery.
As you look around for alternate shops, consider one that will offer to pick your RV up where you are and deliver it to where you are. If they have availability, and are a good shop to work with, what does it matter if the shop is a little further out of the way?
Look for a shop with multiple paint booths.
Paint booths are major capital investment for body shops, and they take up a lot of space. However the paint booth is the heartbeat of any auto body shop. The paint booth is the one piece of equipment that actually sets the pace for when jobs get completed because while a shop can work on several cars at the same time, the paint booth only allows for one paint job at a time.
Body shops with multiple booths simply move cars through faster. If your favorite shop can’t get to your RV, I would start looking around for MSO’s and ones with multiple booths.