Settling the impound/garage/saving dilemmas

[Iroquois]

I too had a problem with this in the beginning where i lost important tuned cars. After reading the threads and from my observations, i want to compile a list of facts for others to read or use for the future, help or any info missing to be added woukd be appreciated l.

 

1. Cars being bought and those stolen dont have much of a difference in terms of being saved or impounded.

 

2. Whether you steal or buy a car and store it in your safehouse garage, it will remain there unless for 3 reasons:

* Few missions (~15) affect your safehouse garage which causes your car to disappear.

* Randon time of car disappearance glitch (R* said they are trying to fix this).

* Abandoning your vehicle to get into another vehicle and saving that car.

 

3. Impound tows stolen and bought cars as well.

 

4. Unique cars such as the elegy have a hard time being stored in a garage.

 

5. You can store vehicles in the colored garages as well. These are the garages where each character picks up his bought car.

 

6. Stolen cars can also be saved in these "colored" garages.

 

7. For some reason, stolen cars have a higher chance of being impounded than bought cars. But stolen cars may get lost too.

 

8. You should never use your personally bought car in a mission where you will have to get in another vehicle because it will disappear. For example, driving out from your garage to a mission marker which usually is followed by cutscenes and using another vehicle will be lost.

 

9. The way the saving/garage/impound is meant to work is that stolen and bought cars would be impounded if lost or abandoned.

 

10. Character specific cars receive small tunes as game storyline progresses and will remain that way until tuned again indirectly by the AI.

 

11. If you purchase a vehicle and collect it from the respective garage, if it is removed from that garage and is not saved anywhere, it will be lost. You will then have to buy that car again.

 

12. You do not have to save the game for the car to remain in your garage.

 

13. If a car you own is destroyed, it will be impounded (if the bug doesnt interfere with it)

 

14. 4 cars can be stored in colored garages.

 

15. Cars stored in safehouse garages may simultaneously disappear after the last storyline mission.

 

16. If you save your game after using your characters personal vehicle as the last car you've driven, it may delete any car stored in your safehouse garage.

 

17. You can never permanently lose your personal car.

 

18. If you tune a car and store it in a colored garage, it will remain tuned.

 

19. If you tune your personal car, it will remain tuned.

 

20. If worried about losing your cars because of the car saving glitch/bug, storing your vehicle in the colored garages decreases the chances of losing your car by a lot.

 

21. Any bicycles bought online can be saved in front of your safehouse. You do not need to store it any garage. You can leave it anywhere near or front of your safehouse garage and will remain in a fixed yet different position, so counts as an extra vehicle storage...sort of.

 

 

There are lot more pieces of info i have found out but currently having writers block. I will update as i go along.

 

Things have to be validated as still unknown:

* Max number of possible stored at impounds.

* If possible to store cars at impound?

Edited September 23, 2013 by Iroquois

[stokiekris]

 

 

Things have to be validated as still unknown:

* Max number of possible stored cars in colored garages.

* Max number of possible stored at impounds.

* If you tune the 1st character assigned cars (jeep for trevor, white car for franklin, etc.) that are stored outside safehouse garages, will they remain tuned?

* If you tune a car and save it in your colored garage, will it remain tuned the next time you access that garage.

 

Not sure on max number I think it's 5

 

No idea with Impounds

 

Up to yet yes tune Trevor's jeep and micheals audi lookalike and still in there drives, actually changed to Michael and he was driving his.

 

And same with the garages Michael got an adder and a 9f fully modded they're both still modded same for Trevor's amg lookalike and franklin has two modded cars saved on mine so if that helps

[Iroquois]

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