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#Garages
You take out and park your own cars at garages and parking lots. It doesn't matter where a car was left: any garage will give it to you.
| Name | Area | District |
|---|---|---|
| Garage | Red Peaks | Badlands |
| Garage | Downtown | City Center |
| Parking | Downtown | City Center |
| Garage | Dogtown | Pacifica |
| Garage | Kabuki | Watson |
| Parking · Afterlife | Little China | Watson |
- Taking a car out: walk up and press E, pick the car in the “My cars” list and click “Take the car out”. It appears nearby, locked. If another car stands where the garage puts cars out, yours stays in until that one is moved: “Another car stands where yours comes out: move it first”.
- Parking: the car must be within 30 m of the garage, with nobody but you in it. Click “Park it here”.
- Starter vehicles, test cars and work vehicles can't be parked in a garage. Neither can faction cars: they go back at the faction's base.
#When a car goes to the garage by itself
- When you leave the game or switch characters, all your cars go to the garage.
- If nobody has gotten into your car for 60 minutes, it goes to the garage and you get a notification.
#Calling your car with the phone
The phone (↑) has a “Garage” app: it shows all your cars, wherever they are.
- Pick a car and tap “Call”. It's free.
- If the car is already out in the city less than 60 m from you, it drives up by itself from where it stands. If it's farther, it pulls onto a free spot on a road 50-160 m from you, at about your height, usually behind you, and also pulls up almost right next to you. Its marker appears on the map.
- If the car gets stuck, it reappears on a road closer to you. If it can't get through within two and a half minutes, the call is canceled: call it again.
- You can call a car once every 20 seconds, and only your own. Key holders can't call it.
- You can't call a car with someone in it (at the wheel or as a passenger), or one that's already less than 10 m from you.
- You can't call a car from inside a home or a hotel room, while unconscious, cuffed or in jail.
- If there's no road nearby the car can pull onto (say, you're on a roof high above the street, or the spot on the road is taken by another car), you'll see “It can't get to you from there: try from another spot”: move somewhere else and call again.
#Sending a car to the garage
The “Send home” button in the same app works once every 3 minutes, and only for an empty car. If the car is nearby, it drives off by itself and then ends up in the garage. If it's far away, it's in the garage right away. If someone gets into it on the way, the trip home is called off and you get a notification.
#Damage
The server doesn't keep track of car damage, and there's no insurance. A roadside mechanic repairs a damaged car for 350 €$.