How much of a difference does 100% armor make?

[Soulrise]

I'm currently Level 97 and have 60% armor on 8 of my cars (my new Turismo and Jester don't have any armor yet). When I hit Level 80 I decided to skip armoring my garage and save the money for when I got to Level 100 for 100% armor. The thing is, 60% armor has done pretty well for me. My cars do get banged up over time, but I've never had one destroyed except by random sticky bomb griefers. And once I return to my garage it's fixed up thanks for my (underappreciated) mechanic. For those with 100% armor, is there much functional difference or is it mainly for cosmetic purposes?

 

It will cost me $500,000.00 to buy full armor for all 10 of my cars, not sure if it's worth it so feedback is welcome.

[Spyrothedragon9972]

Ummmm......having 100% armour increases the amount of damage that your car can take before being destroyed by......100%.

 

So if you go from having 60% to 100%...you can do the math.

Edited March 5, 2014 by Spyrothedragon9972

[Psoloquoise]

Totally worth it, even if you do it just to save from deformation.

[MantisFang]

or you could find a car with a nice rollcage

Edited March 5, 2014 by MantisFang

[A Maned Wolf]

100% helps stops almost all low-to-medium crash deformation, and for off-road vehicles with exposed axles (Rebel, Sandking) helps keep the axles straight after crashes.

[vaguecmac]

Totally worth it, even if you do it just to save from deformation.

Mainly this, Nothing worse than having a bent wheel and cant turn worth a f*ck

[G37]

It's significant and pretty unfair actually. You can throw a car down Mt Chilliad, all bumps, rolls and crashes included and when you're at the foot of the mountain you may have some broken windows and short a hood and that's about it.

[sadpandamakeup]

Well OP if you have 60% armor and wondering how much better is 100% armor . . . I would say it's about 40% better . . . give or take.

[GTA-Freak-Vi]

If only 100% armour made your head/tail lights undamaged then I wouldn't be going back to LSC to fix it every damn 5 minutes. Idk about you but I can't stand driving the car at night when one of my headlights isn't working!

[LahTigre]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but does just 20% armor prevent vehicle frame deformation?

Edited March 5, 2014 by LahTigre

[Unknown_33]

id be awesome if we can get armor upgrades like this

[dedlee]

get to 75 and RR your way to 100. pretty fast and easy and you'll get more than enough money for armor. it's worth it.

[Sushi__Wolf]

Totally worth it, even if you do it just to save from deformation.

does it really keep the shape of the vehicle at 100% ?¿

[yoloswag420xd]

It's well worth it. I have 100% armor on all my cars(Yes, I hacked iFruit to get 100% armor on all my cars even though i'm only level 56), and it really helps against crashes. My headlights and taillights on my Entity almost never break with 100% armor(windows do though), and the car can take a lot of bullets before starting to smoke. And it's never lost a wheel or not been able to turn after I put 100% armor on it.

 

So my point is, yes it is completely worth it. Makes your car 40% stronger, which could really help sometimes. Heck, if you can, you should try hacking the iFruit app too to get it before reaching level 100.

Edited March 6, 2014 by fofofofofofofofo

[SaturdayNight]

A car's chance of exploding drops significantly, I like adding only 60% personally.

[Soulrise]

Lol, thanks for the feedback guys. Yes, doing the math I can tell that it's 40% stronger but what I was unsuccessfully trying to explain and ask in my OP was that my vehicles don't really explode or deform that much at 60% so was 100% really that much of a difference.

 

Thanks to those that gave examples of your experience at 100% though. Guess I'll be spending 500K on armor soon...

[smokingndriving]

I have 100% on my cars. I occasionally have a car that I just use for just heading down to the beach if I'm in invite only and then don't put 100% on, but otherwise, have 100% on everything at this moment.

[Shaundi.]

100% armor can make a difference with head on crashes. My Coquette can take 9 high speed head on crashes before one headlight is broken. That's how strong it is.

[iFight]

I just bought turismo R. Wanted to purchase 100% armor, I don't feel like to waste 50k now as i wasted 100k for full speed and other parts.

[podyx]

60% to 100% would make the car 67% stronger

[SpidersWeb]

Also not having armor means your car blows up easily when people shoot at you.

Forcing them to pay for it

[TheWomenBeater]

id be awesome if we can get armor upgrades like this

What game is that?