Fit before features
Measurements come first. A vehicle that doesn't clear your chair isn't a deal at any price.
About
Our name is Guide for a reason.
An accessible vehicle is one of the largest and least transparent purchases a family ever makes. We'd rather be the people who explain it than the people who close it.
Our story
A vehicle manufacturer that went where its customers needed it to.
Guide Mobility is the mobility division of Van America — a vehicle manufacturer that has spent over a decade building Mercedes-Benz Sprinter conversions in St. George, Utah, across five lines of work: camper, passenger, service, moto and mobility.
That last word carries weight in this industry. Van America doesn't buy finished vehicles and resell them. It takes delivery of bare chassis and builds them out to its own engineering, under audit by Mercedes-Benz as an Expert Upfitter and by RVIA as a certified manufacturer. Almost nobody selling you a wheelchair van can say that, because almost nobody selling you one built it.
Mobility work found the production floor. Customers arrived needing a lift fitted, a chair secured, a family vehicle that worked for all of them. We certified on RICON and BraunAbility lifts and Q'STRAINT securement, and it grew into a division of its own.
Today Guide Mobility sells across the whole size range: the full-size vans are manufactured by Van America here in St. George, and the accessible minivans come from VMI, where we're an authorized dealer. The lift work — fitting and servicing — stays with us.
What carried over from the camper side was a habit: building around how someone actually lives, rather than around what the catalog offers. That matters more in mobility than anywhere else.
How we work
Four commitments.
Every lift we fit gets run through its full cycle before it leaves the building. That is the least interesting of these four, and the one everything else depends on.
Plain numbers
Conversion cost, vehicle cost, and what funding might cover — separated out, not blended into one figure.
Say no when it's no
If a transfer seat solves it for a fraction of a conversion, that's what we'll tell you.
Still here after
Service, inspection, and answers for as long as you own the vehicle.
Where we are
St. George — and the corner of three states.
We serve southern Utah, southern Nevada, and northern Arizona from our facility at 976 North 1100 West. The wheelchair van dealers this region is expected to use sit in the Salt Lake valley or in Las Vegas — a full day's round trip from most of the towns we work with, and most of a week if a part has to be ordered while the van waits in another state.
That gap is the reason Guide Mobility exists in the form it does. Being twenty minutes from Hurricane and under an hour from Cedar City is not a convenience in this business. An accessible vehicle isn't a second car — when it's off the road, somebody stops leaving the house.
Traveling to us? Tell us what chair you use beforehand and we'll have the van staged and the lift ready, so the drive is worth making.
Certifications
What we're accountable to.
These are Guide Mobility's own certifications — the lift, securement and dealer credentials we hold and work under.
RICON & BraunAbility
Certified to install and service both wheelchair lift lines, including warranty work.
Q'STRAINT
Certified on wheelchair securement and occupant restraint systems.
VMI
Authorized dealer for Vantage Mobility International wheelchair accessible minivans.
Start here
No pressure. Just answers.
Call the shop, send a note, or describe the situation. We'll tell you what we'd do — including when the answer isn't a sale.