We study upper bounds, approximations, and limits for functions of motivic exponential class, uniformly in non-Archimedean local fields whose characteristic is 0 or sufficiently large. Our results together form a flexible framework for doing analysis over local fields in a field-independent way. As corollaries, we obtain many new transfer principles, for example, for local constancy, continuity, and existence of various kinds of limits. Moreover, we show that the Fourier transform of an L 2 -function of motivic exponential class is again of motivic exponential class. As an application in representation theory, we prove uniform bounds for the Fourier transforms of orbital integrals on connected reductive p-adic groups.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 14E18; Secondary 22E50, 40J99.Key words and phrases. Transfer principles for motivic integrals, uniform bounds, motivic integration, motivic constructible exponential functions, loci of motivic exponential class, orbital integrals, admissible representations of reductive groups, Harish-Chandra characters.