RV Systems Repair Pricing

Slide rooms are the most complicated moving assembly on a coach and the one owners are most afraid of. They are also, in most cases, repairable rather than replaceable. Schwintek, Accu-Slide, hydraulic and cable systems each fail in characteristic ways, and the failure mode tells you where the money goes.

Seals are the maintenance item nobody does. A slide seal that has hardened lets water into the floor at the leading edge, and that turns a $600 seal job into a $6,000 subfloor job. On the coast, seals go faster because UV and salt air harden the rubber. We check them on every systems inspection whether or not you asked.

The roof is the highest return maintenance item on any RV. A recoat and reseal is $750 to $4,500 and it prevents the failure that costs twenty times that. Every penetration on an RV roof, and there are typically fifteen to thirty of them, is a joint between two dissimilar materials held together by sealant that has a service life of about five years in Southern California sun.

When water gets in, it does not run out. It runs along the roof decking to the sidewall, down inside the wall cavity, and it collects in the subfloor where you cannot see it. The first visible symptom is usually a soft spot in the floor or a stain at a ceiling seam, and by then the damage is a year old. Roof work is the one place we will tell you to spend money you did not plan to spend.

Electrical work starts at diagnosis, and diagnosis is one hour at $285 that gets credited back. Nobody should be replacing components on a modern coach without a load test and a voltage drop measurement, and a surprising number of shops still do. A converter that reads correct voltage at no load and collapses under a 40 amp draw is a common failure that a meter on an idle bus will not catch.

Lithium conversions are the most requested upgrade we do and the one with the most bad installations behind it. A LiFePO4 bank needs a compatible charge profile from the converter, the alternator and the solar controller, plus low temperature charge protection. Dropping lithium into a system built for flooded lead acid and calling it done is how a $6,000 bank dies in eighteen months.

Fresh water plumbing on an RV is PEX in walls and floors that were never designed for access. A fitting that lets go behind a wall panel is a plumbing repair plus a carpentry repair plus, if it sat, a subfloor repair. We pressure test the whole system rather than fixing the visible drip, because a system that dropped pressure once will drop it again somewhere else.

Waste tanks are the job nobody wants and everybody eventually needs. Cracked ABS tanks, failed dump valves, broken vent lines and sensor boards that have been reading full since 2019 are all standard work here. Appliance work covers absorption and residential refrigerators, water heaters, furnaces, cooktops and rooftop air conditioners.

Leveling systems fail in two directions. Hydraulic systems leak, and the leak is usually at a ram seal or a fitting rather than the pump everyone wants to replace. Electric systems on Lippert and Equalizer platforms fail at the control board or at a single jack motor, and the symptom is the whole system refusing to deploy, which looks catastrophic and usually is not.

Annual maintenance is $400 to $2,500 and it is the cheapest thing on this page. It covers seal inspection, roof inspection, LP pressure test, generator service, battery load test, brake and bearing inspection on towables, and a systems function check. Owners who do it spend meaningfully less over ten years than owners who do not, and it is not close.

Body and paint labor is posted at $210 per hour. Mechanical and electrical is $260 per hour. Diagnostics run $285 per hour with a one hour minimum that is credited back against an authorized repair. Ranges below reflect jobs we have actually completed.