Palmer Spring Company

Palmer Spring Company is a repair shop based in Portland, Maine, at 355 Forest Ave. You bring the RV to its shop rather than the other way around.

It works on springs, brakes, suspensions, and wheel alignments on motor homes, including RVs, alongside its truck and bus work. Specific jobs listed for trucks, RVs, and buses include Maine State Inspections, tune ups, and what it calls "Mechanical Services," described as critical heavy equipment repairs. On the general auto side it also lists air conditioning, coolant systems, exhaust systems, check engine lights, shocks and struts, wheel bearings, and tires, the kind of work that applies across its vehicle sizes. It also runs its own blacksmith shop to craft or adapt springs and u-bolts to custom specifications, useful if your rig needs an odd or obsolete part nobody stocks anymore. Its stated service area reaches well beyond Portland, naming towns from Brunswick and Sanford down to Bangor and Augusta, and it says it will check whether it can reach you even if your town is not listed.

No trip fee, hourly rate, or diagnostic fee is published, so ask about those when you call, along with whether it can take on your specific RV job.

Founded in 1849, the shop says it has kept vehicles on the road for "five generations and over 170 years." Google rates it 3.3 stars from 75 reviews.

This is a good fit for an owner near Portland who needs spring, brake, alignment, or suspension work on a motorhome and can bring the rig into the shop during weekday business hours.