Fleetwood Repair
Fleetwood Motorhome Repair and Restoration
Short answer
A lot of Fleetwood coaches on the road are 15 to 25 years old. Parts sourcing and fabrication matter more than labor hours on most of what we do.
OCRV Center repairs Fleetwood Bounder, Discovery, Pace Arrow, Southwind and Flair coaches, including twenty year old units where parts are discontinued. San Clemente owners drive up I-5 or SR-73 to our Yorba Linda shop for cap fabrication, roof replacement, structural welding and systems work.
Updated 2026-07-29 by OCRV Center Editorial Team
The Fleetwood work that comes through here skews older than our other brand work, and that changes the nature of the job. On a 2004 Pace Arrow the labor is not the hard part. Finding a front cap, a window frame or a trim extrusion that has not been manufactured in fifteen years is the hard part.
So the honest conversation on an older Fleetwood starts with parts. Sometimes we can source it. Sometimes we fabricate it. Occasionally the right answer is that the repair costs more than the coach is worth, and we will tell you that before you spend money finding out.
The Parts Conversation Comes First
On an older Fleetwood we scope the parts before we scope the labor. A cap that is available changes a job from a fabrication project into a straightforward replacement, and the difference is often five figures.
Where nothing is available we fabricate. We have the welding and fiberglass capability in house to make panels, brackets and trim, and on a well kept older coach that is frequently the correct call. Custom fabrication and welding runs $750 to $20,000 and up depending on what has to be made.
- Sourced replacement
- When a cap, window or extrusion is still findable, the job becomes conventional. We check availability before writing hours, not after.
- Fabrication
- Fiberglass mold work and aluminum or steel fabrication in house. Slower than a bolt-on part and often the only real option.
- Value reality check
- On some older coaches the honest number exceeds the value. We say so plainly rather than taking a job that leaves you upside down.
- Age-related water damage
- Water damage and subfloor $750 to $15,000 and up. On a coach this age, expect the mapped extent to be larger than on a newer build.
When an Older Fleetwood Is Worth the Work
Plenty of them are. A Discovery or Pace Arrow with a sound frame, a dry floor and a good drivetrain is a lot of coach for the money, and correcting a roof and a cap on one can be genuinely sensible.
The deciding factors are the floor and the frame. If both are sound, most other things are fixable at a rational number. If the subfloor has gone across multiple bays, the arithmetic usually stops working and we will show you why.
Reading the Build Year Off a Fleetwood
Fleetwood coaches from different eras are effectively different products. Bounder, Flair, Fortis and Pace Arrow ride the Ford F53 gas rail across most model years. Discovery, Discovery LXE and Frontier are Freightliner raised rail diesel pushers, and the older Providence and Excursion coaches used earlier Freightliner rails with hardware that is now obsolete. Once you go back past the mid 2000s the sidewall recipe also changes: steel cage construction with luan backed lamination, which wicks water in a way the composite backed walls on current builds do not.
Roof material tracks the same timeline. Older coaches carry EPDM rubber membrane that has usually been recoated at least once by now, sometimes with a product that is incompatible with what goes over it. Later builds moved to TPO. We identify the existing membrane and any prior coating before quoting, because stripping an incompatible coating is real labor that nobody writes into an estimate from the parking lot.
- Obsolete leveling hardware
- Power Gear and HWH units from the early 2000s often have no replacement assembly available, so the correct path is rebuilding the cylinder or the valve block rather than ordering a part number.
- Salvage sourcing
- For discontinued caps, window frames and trim extrusions we work salvage inventory as well as suppliers. A used part in sound condition frequently beats fabricating from scratch on cost and calendar.
- In house fabrication
- Fiberglass mold work plus aluminum and steel fabrication on site. Slower than a bolt on part and often the only real option. Custom fabrication and welding $750 to $20,000 and up.
- Membrane compatibility
- Prior recoats have to be identified before new material goes down. A coating applied over an incompatible product releases in sheets, usually within the first wet season.
Fleetwood Model Families We Work On
Not exhaustive, and if yours is not listed we almost certainly still take it. Call (949) 799-3387 and describe the coach.
- Fleetwood Bounder
- Fleetwood Discovery
- Fleetwood Discovery LXE
- Fleetwood Flair
- Fleetwood Fortis
- Fleetwood Pace Arrow
- Fleetwood Pace Arrow LXE
- Fleetwood Southwind
- Fleetwood Tioga
- Fleetwood Frontier
- Fleetwood Providence
- Fleetwood Excursion
Fleetwood Questions We Get Asked
Does Fleetwood or REV Group endorse your shop?
Neither one endorses, certifies or supervises OCRV Center, and no factory relationship exists. We are independent, licensed by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair under ARD00288521. On coaches this age that independence is usually an advantage, because the work is fabrication, salvage sourcing and structural repair rather than anything a dealer parts counter can order off a shelf.
Nobody makes the front cap for my Pace Arrow anymore. What are my options?
Three, in order of cost. Repair the existing cap if the substrate is sound, which is often possible even on badly cracked gel coat. Source a used cap from salvage, which we check first because it saves weeks. Or mold and fabricate a replacement section in house, which is the slowest path and sometimes the only one. We price all three before you decide rather than defaulting to the most expensive.
How do you decide whether an older Fleetwood is worth repairing?
The floor and the frame decide it. A Discovery or Bounder with a dry subfloor, sound rails and a healthy drivetrain is a lot of coach for the money, and correcting a roof and a cap on one is rational. Intrusion across multiple bays with soft floor front to back usually is not, because the repair exceeds the value. We map moisture and show you the readings before you spend money on a teardown.
Can you replace the roof membrane on a twenty year old Bounder?
Yes. It is a full strip to the decking, inspection and replacement of soft substrate, new membrane, new terminations and a complete reseal of every penetration. Membrane replacement runs $3,500 to $18,000 and up depending on length and how much decking has failed. On a coach that age we expect to replace some decking, and we tell you that up front instead of discovering it as a supplement.
My old Fleetwood leveling jacks will not retract. Is that repairable?
Usually, though rarely by ordering a replacement assembly. On the Power Gear and HWH systems from that era we rebuild the cylinder, replace seals, service the valve block and trace the control wiring, which on a coach with two decades of prior repairs is often where the actual fault lives. Leveling system service runs $350 to $6,500 and up at our mechanical and electrical rate of $260 per hour.