I discovered a series of cracks in the aluminum frame of my travel trailer. Not everyone can handle a project of this complexity but Buddy and his crew were able to get us back on the road. They repaired the failure and custom built a steel exoskeleton to reinforce the stress points.The work was professional and completed in a reasonable timeframe (even in the busy season ) with great communication throughout the process.I’m typically a very fussy customer and want things done right. Buddy’s delivered. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Buddy’s Welding and RV Repair installed a solar system in my van two and a half years ago and just completed an upgrade to my system last week. I highly recommend Buddy’s. Their work is excellent, the equipment was installed with great skill and well designed. The cost was very reasonable and the job was completed in two days. Plus, Buddy and everyone working there are just plain nice folks!
The owner, Buddy, works on site and is a great guy. They have a pretty extensive welding / fabrication shop. He made a fantastic spiral staircase for my construction business. Price was good and so was the quality. I dont know much about their RV service, but I know they carry a lot of parts in their shop. I can recommend them for metal fabrication and purchasing raw metal.
Want to thank Buddy for saving my hunting trip. Broke a shock on my ATV and he was able to repair/weld it so I could continue hunting while I waited on the replacement shock. Thank you so much for your time and professionalism. Brett
Only place in Flagstaff that had the part I needed for my trailer. They were very friendly too! Highly recommended!
180.00 dollar mark up for a part/tool/equipment is inexcusable. His reasoning was high overhead, cost to work in Flagstaff, and unable to compete with other business. Such a shame. Buyer Beware. I dont mind spending a little extra at a small business, however gouging customers is not a way to get repeat business. Again Buyer Beware.
On our first day of an RV vacation to celebrate our granddaughter’s 5th birthday a big rig had a tire blow in front of us causing a copper electrical cable under the coach to drag on the ground and get chewed up. We arrived in Flagstaff at 11:00 pm and we’re waiting at Buddy’s door before they opened. Within 15 minutes they evaluated the problem and were able to fit us into their busy schedule. Within an hour one of their people was fixing it and assisting my husband in the repair of the black tank line that had also separated during the accident. Buddy’s is the best!
The wife and I are full timers and I bent a stabilizer jack on our 42 foot fifth wheel coming out of a steep parking lot. Called around and an RV repair place in Cottonwood recommended Buddys to me for the welding. Called them and setup and appointment for a few weeks out. Brought the trailer in a little late in the morning than we said we would (About an hour). They said it was okay, they could still take it. They originally told me it should be done same day and asked if I wanted to lift the other stabilizers to prevent them from getting damaged in the future too. Of course I said yes and the Wife and I took the dog and went out for the day to enjoy Flagstaff. I called them around 3PM for a quick update and they mentioned the damage was a little more severe than they originally thought and it wouldnt be ready until the next day. No problem, the wife and I found a pet friendly Marriott property downtown and stayed the night. Next day trailer was ready after lunch. Towed it back to our campground and everything worked great! The price was about what we where expecting to pay. They also re-attached a weather strip above a slide out for us too. Overall a good experience and I would definitely return. Even got the propane filled while we where there.Okay kids, lets talk about your expectations when you are having repairs done. If you are an RVer you MUST realize by now that things dont always go according to plan and you need to have a backup plan ready to go when it doesnt. This is applicable to life in general but especially RVing. If you make a plan and expect it to unfold exactly how you planned it you will live a life of disappointment and anger. The same applies to having repairs done on anything, RV, truck, car, boat, whatever it is. If we had not thought about What if they cant get it done today and need it an extra day? we would have been pretty upset when that happened because we didnt have a plan laid out. Instead it was a minor annoyance but we just enacted our plan to stay at the hotel we found previously and left the following day. Hell we actually had a great time staying an extra day! We even had a plan if they needed it longer than the two days! That might be a bit extreme for some but the point is, have a plan for things costing more than you think and taking longer than you think and youll find your life to be a lot less stressful. Be flexible and have a backup plan.Stay safe out there!
Buddy and his crew were very helpful in repairing our weight distributing hitch for our camper trailer. They welded a new bolt on where one sheared off (the repair is still holding fine a couple thousand miles later) and charged me a very reasonable sum for the work. They took on and completed the job very promptly despite being busy with a steady stream of RV folks coming in with their maintenance needs and repair laments. My impression of the people and this place were of great competence, deep knowledge, and genuine kindness. Before I left, Buddy taught me about the points that needed lubrication on the hitch. And then, instead of selling me a tub of grease, he says “oh you don’t ever need much of this” and goes back to the service bay, returning with a ziplock bag with enough free grease to last a long while. Support this business...you won’t regret it!
We were far from home our home in Virginia and had a bent axle on our camper trailer. Buddy got it done in 24 hours and for a very fair price. Thanks to Buddy, we are back on the road and our camper feels great. Buddy even called to check on us while we were driving down I-40 in New Mexico. I cannot say enough good things about Buddy.
Had a heavy leveling jack on a Class A motor home break off while extended. The Winnebago factory weld simply failed. Buddy’s Welding & R.V., Inc. worked me in and did an excellent job disassembling the jack mounts, welding the U-beam securely to the frame and reassembling the jack to factory positions, and also saw a stretched Banks exhaust pipe hanger so they replaced it while they were checking out the other welds. Reasonable price and I have complete faith in the work that was done. I have been a Cliff’s Welding - Mesa fan, but Buddy’s in Flagstaff is every bit as good.
Great work, easy to talk with about the options. Didnt try to up sell me and were able to answer all my questions. Will definitely be back.
Best service I have ever experienced.Very professional and knowledgeable.Needed service to my motorhome gas furnace. In an out in a short time.
First of all, the one star rating is due to their lack of customer service skills. I never made it to the point of actually having the work done.I stopped by Buddy’s RV to get an estimate on replacing my 12’ awning fabric. Buddy looked at the awning and gave me a quick quote. The price seemed fair, it was about what I had expected. I explained to him that my partner and I lived in the motor home so we couldn’t leave it overnight, it was our home, and he said it wasn’t a problem. We went back inside, I chose my awning color, he wrote down my contact information, and said that when his assistant came in she would give me a call to get my credit card information and order the fabric. I thanked him and left. That was around the first of August.More than two weeks passed so I called to check on things. Buddy answered, he didn’t seem to remember me, at some point he seemed to remember us talking, so he took my credit card information and ordered the awning right away. He told me that it would probably be a week to ten days.Another two weeks passed by, so I called. Buddy answered, took my phone number and told me he’d have the lady that sets the appointments call me back. She called late the next day. She said they had the fabric and asked if Friday was okay. I told her to make sure and pick a day when they could for sure get it done because we were nomads and we live in our motor home, so if they couldn’t get it done in a day, just make sure it was drivable and we would bring it back the following day. She said she understood, then she asked me if I could drop it off Thursday. So, I assumed that she felt that Thursday was my best option and I agreed. I told her I would drop it off early the next morning which we did.We spent the day around Flagstaff, on one of the hottest days of the summer, trying to keep cool and semi comfortable until they called to let us know it was ready. We never got a phone call so I made sure to get there before they closed only to find our motor home parked in the back lot and the awning hadn’t been touched. When I went inside I told the lady at the desk that I noticed the awning hadn’t been replaced, at which time she informed me that it was scheduled for the next day. Evidently, the multiple times I stressed we could not leave the motor home overnight did not register.I was quite upset, explaining once again that I had told them time after time that we live in our motor home, leaving it overnight was not an option. I canceled the Friday appointment because it was already late in the day and we were camping about 40 miles away and didn’t want to spend the very next day traveling in two vehicles back and forth in the heat, it was just too much. I asked for my key, and she couldn’t find it, then I heard a voice from the office behind her say that the key was in it.So, frustrated, I walked out. When I got into our motor home, there were obvious signs that someone had been playing with the radio and antenna, also later after we got to our campsite we also found other little indicators that someone had actually been looking around inside, even browsing inside the cabinets. I was not happy!A week later, when we needed to run errands in town, we made the drive back to Flagstaff and stopped by Buddy’s to pick up my awning or at least get my money back. I knew from past experience that they would never call to either apologize or to reschedule the appointment, and true to form, they made no attempts to contact us.When I was walking into their office I noticed a long shipping box thrown on top of some junk outside the door. It was my awning. It had been left outside in the rain, the box had deteriorated and was now in a sort of elongated ‘Z’ shape, which I knew was bad for the material. I took the box and left.Worst customer service experience I have ever encountered.
Love this company. The staff are skilled and honest. Went way above and beyond to help me quickly get back on the road after a catastrophic meltdown. And charged very fairly. Highly recommended.
The lady at the parts store KNOWS the parts, and will get you fixed right up,with a laugh,and smiles.,An alltogether nice experience!
WarningIf you fill your propane tanks at buddys they will over fill it, till the it shuts the value off so you can no longer use it. Then proceed to tell you that you will have to pay at least 100$ to fix it instead of taking responsibility for their mistake. This has not just happen once but twice now. Now I am left with only one working propane bottle and no propane for 3 days. I will not be going here again.
Amazing business! Very informative and knowledgeable and will take the time to give as much advice as they can
Buddy’s installed 2 large solar panels as well as cabling and a Midnight Solar circuit breaker box and a Victron 100/50 solar charge controller. Very high quality work was done at a very reasonable price. Everyone was friendly and easy to work with - a completely positive experience
Buddy helped us out big time today. He gave us the advice/instructions and parts we needed to replace our RV toilet. Thanks again for your time today Buddy
My wife and I were in Flagstaff trying to get some warranty repair work done on our Keystone Cougar fifth wheel. After a week of battling with Keystone over cracks in our bumper do to failed welds, Keystone denied our claim. Buddys Welding & RV to the rescue. We took our fifth wheel over to Buddys. Buddy was very personable and was able get us in the next day even though he was very busy. What a life saver. Buddy knows his craft very well. He was way ahead of me as to what was wrong and what needed to be done. Brought it in on Tuesday and picked it up on Wednesday morning. Could not have asked for more. Not only did they fix my bumper they made it better. They made it stronger so I can now take the spare tire out of the bed of my truck and put it back on the bumper without having to worry about the bumper cracking and failing again. I would HIGHLY recommend Buddy for any repair work on your RV. If you need some work done I would call Buddys Welding & RV first before anyone else.
Add another five star from me. Damaged RV to the point I couldnt unhook from my truck. Buddy fit me into his already full schedule and had me fixed and on my way quickly and reasonably. Thanks to Buddy and his staff!
Had Buddy install tow package on Jeep to pull behind RV. His cost was less than Camping World and other local RV dealer/shop. Hes a genuine nice guy and helped me so much. I cant promote enough.
Buddys helped me out. Had a tow hitch issue in the middle of a 3 week road trip with our RV. Buddys went above and beyond!
I was trying to repair an axle on my trailer and failed. Went to Buddys and had a new axle ordered within 10 min. Excellent service compared to competitor down the road.
Every time were in Flagstaff camping we seem to need something fixed, and Buddys has always been there for us. I even leave a few non-urgent jobs undone so I can bring them to this shop, their work is that good.
We were traveling when our trailer brakes started locking up when ever I touched the brakes. Found Buddy just by chance and he immediately figured out what was wrong and had us back on the road in less than 2 hours even though he was very busy with other customers. Highly recommend for any trailer repair or parts! Thanks you.
Great service! Had electrical problems with trailer brakes on first day of vacation and Buddy and his son CARED. They squeezed us in and got us back on the road.
Helluva nice people just dont tip them they will laugh at your dollar that you try to give as a tip
Excellent service, people, and inventory!
They got me in on a an emergency basis to fix my slide, great job and great price thanks Rusty
Can’t recommend Buddy enough. He did a complete solar install on my Casita and I couldn’t be happier.
Great Service friendly and most of all top notch work.
Excellent customer service!
Highly recommended took care of me on the road when I had a problem
Great customer service