Buying A Vehicle
Vehicles are available for purchase at multiple dealerships around the state. In order for you to legally ‘Own’ vehicles, be able to store items in the trunk and store the vehicle in your garage you must purchase Your vehicles from one of them, or purchase one from another player who is selling their used vehicle. There is a wide range of vehicles available from low-end starters ranging from $1100 to $6000 dollars; To exotics, highly customized off-road trucks and classic muscle car that cost as much as $400K. There’s even bicycles for around $250 if money is really tight.
To purchase a vehicle, visit one of the dealerships, based on what you’re looking for. The dealerships carry different selections.
Dealership Locations / Selections:
- Simeon’s Premium Deluxe Motorsport – Postal 8167, Corner of Power Street and Adams Apple Blvd.
- Vehicle classes: compacts, sedans, coupes, suv, muscle, utility, and off road
- Roxwood Benefactor Dealership – Postal 916, Riverfront Avenue, Roxwood Island.
- Vehicle classes: compacts, sedans, coupes, suv, muscle, utility, and off road (same as Simeon’s)
- Luxury/Sports Premium Deluxe Motorsport – Postal 7175, Corner of Boulevard Del Perro and Morningwood Blvd
- Vehicle classes: sport, sport classic, super, electric, sport bike
- Sanders Motorcycles – Postal 8175, Adam’s Apple Blvd.
- Vehicle classes: cycles, sport bikes, off road bikes, electric bikes, cruiser bikes, scooters, chopper bikes, and quadricycles
- Big Schitt’s – Postal 10072, Voodoo Place
- Vehicle classes: big trucks and industrial
- Los Santos Boats Dealership – Postal 8239, Tackle Street
- Vehicle classes: jet skis and motorboats
- Roxwood Boats Dealership – Postal 941, off Great Voyage Rd, near Aweigh Marine.
- Vehicle classes: jet skis and motorboats
- Aircraft Dealership – South of postal 10019, LSIA Airport Hangar on the Southwest Corner of the airport.
- Vehicle classes: planes and helicopters
When you enter the showroom, walk up to any vehicle door or the red chevrons near the vehicle to access the showroom menu. You should see prompts to guide you through the purchase process. You can test drive a vehicle by pressing E, or purchase it by pressing C and not even have to open the menu at the chevron.
- Buy Vehicle – you will immediately purchase the vehicle you choose.
- Finance Vehicle – you will finance the vehicle you choose and pay on it over time. Highly advise against this, you have to make a payment every day until it’s paid off. If you miss payments, your vehicle may be automatically removed from your garage.
- Preview Vehicle – you can change to another vehicle model from other categories to view.
- Test Drive – you can test drive the currently displayed vehicle.
After making your purchase, you will then be placed outside the dealership in your new vehicle. You may then take the vehicle to Los Santos Customs to re-paint it, and purchase some upgrades. These are very expensive and you may save money by scheduling an appointment with Benny’s, Hayes, Mooseknuckle, or Mosley’s.
In order to store and/or access your owned vehicles, visit either the public garage (or your home garage if you purchased a property), enter the marker, and follow the menu prompts.
**NOTE: Personal vehicles can only be stored and accessed at the public and home garages. Work vehicles provided by your employer may only be accessed and stored at the specific job garage (i.e.- Police garage, Bank Driver garage, etc). Additionally, Stolen vehicles may not be obtained and then stored in any garage. The Police have access to the ‘No-Jack’ Stolen vehicle locator system and in-car cameras that scan RFID chips embedded in license plates – This system will notify a unit of a stolen vehicle upon detection and provide registered owner’s information.
Selling A Vehicle
You can sell any vehicle that you legally own at the used car lot at Larry’s located in Harmony at postal 940. This wholesale buyer will only pay about half what you originally purchased your vehicle for inside Simeon’s Showroom. You can choose to accept the cash sale, or list it for consignment and wait for another player to buy it from there.
You can also sell the vehicle back for about 70% of it’s value to any dealership location that carries it. Access the menu at any of the red chevrons.
You can also transfer ownership of a vehicle you own to another player, manually, after roleplaying out any price negotiations and payment. Use the /transfervehicle chat command to do this. You will need to press HOME on the keyboard to see the ID number above the head of the player you are transferring ownership to.
Engine Toggle
- G on the keyboard will toggle your engine on/off while in the driver’s seat.
Cruise Control
- Start and stop cruise control by pressing Y on your keyboard.
Seatbelt
- Put your seatbelt on and take it off with PageDown on your keyboard.