The route
Eight stops, in the order a rig meets them
This is not a menu of packages. It is the order the work tends to arrive in over a season — inspection first, because everything after it depends on what the inspection found. Every one of these ends the same way: a written sheet with the things we did not do written on it too.
The work, stop by stop
Roof, tires, bearings, brakes, gas, batteries, seals, appliances — walked in a fixed order so nothing gets skipped because the bay was busy. It ends in a log sheet with a line for every item, its state, and its cost, including the zeroes. Book it three or four weeks before you leave, not three days.
Half a day · the sheet goes home with you
The membrane, every seam, and every hole cut through it — vents, fans, the A/C shroud, the fridge vent, the antenna, the ladder mounts. We reseal what has actually failed, and we write down what we left alone and why, because a full reseal on a sound roof is money set on fire.
Inspect twice a year, and after anything hits it
Date codes read and written down. Pressures set from real axle weights against the inflation table, not from the sidewall maximum. Bearings pulled, cleaned, inspected and repacked with new seals. Shoes measured with a gauge and magnets checked for face wear.
Bearings roughly annually or every 12,000 miles
A timed leak-down test on a gauge, regulator outlet pressure measured in inches of water column, then the appliances actually run — the fridge until it is cold, the furnace until it cycles, the water heater until it lights on gas and on element.
A smell is not a test. A gauge is a test.
Shore power, the converter and the inverter are three separate systems that all end at a socket, which is why they get blamed for each other. We test the pedestal, the cord, the transfer, the charging profile, and the batteries under actual load.
House bank · chassis · charging · solar
Bulb and wiper seals cleaned and treated with something that will not swell the rubber. Rails, rollers and gear racks checked. The room brought in and out and watched for square, because a slide that runs out of sync destroys a seal and then a wall.
Treat the seals. Do not grease what should stay dry.
CVT belts and clutch housings, air filters after dust, differential oil after water, valve clearances at the interval, and the fuel system on anything that sat through a Florida summer on pump gas.
The maintenance everyone skips until it stops
The van goes to storage lots and campsites for inspections, gas tests, batteries, seals and small repairs. Some jobs need the bay and we say which before we roll, rather than turning up and charging you for the discovery.
Sarasota County, and honest about the limits
What we will not sell you
Every one of these has been quoted to somebody who then brought the rig here for a second opinion. None of them are hypothetical, and none of them are difficult to check — which is exactly why we publish them.
Six tires on tread depth alone. If the date codes are recent and the sidewalls are clean, tread depth is not a reason to replace an RV tire. Age is. We read you the codes and let you do the arithmetic.
A full roof reseal because two penetrations failed. Lap sealant is inspected penetration by penetration. Two bad ones out of six is two bad ones, not a roof.
A matched pair of batteries when one tests fine. If the good one is close in age and the same chemistry, replacing one is correct and replacing two is a sale.
A tank treatment to fix a sensor. Sensors read high because residue bridges the probes. No bottle in a shop fixes that permanently, and we are not going to sell you one every season pretending it does.
How pricing works here
- Diagnosis is charged as time, and it is charged honestly — we tell you what we found even when the answer is that nothing is wrong.
- Parts and labor hours are written on the estimate before anything is opened, ordered or fitted.
- If the job turns out smaller than the estimate, the invoice is smaller. That should not need saying and it does.
- If it turns out bigger, you get a phone call before the extra work happens, not a surprise at the counter.
No prices are published on this demonstration site because they would be invented, and an invented price is worse than none.
Next stop
Start with the walk
If you are not sure which of the eight you need, you need the first one. The inspection tells you what the rig actually wants, and it is the only honest way to answer a question nobody can answer over a phone.