Vehicle guides

These guides cover the questions we get most about add-on vehicles on FiveM servers: how to change them, and how to fix them when something looks wrong. Every guide works for our vehicles and for most other add-on cars.

• Change a vehicle's engine sound: give a car the sound of another GTA V vehicle or a custom sound pack.
• Stop a vehicle disappearing at a distance: raise the LOD distances, and what OneSync culling has to do with it.
• Add more liveries: texture liveries and livery tuning parts.
• Fix police lights in the wrong place: siren ID clashes and cache problems.
• Vehicle spawns with parts of the body missing: body parts that come as tuning or extras.

Before you edit a vehicle

Most fixes are edits to the .meta files in the vehicle's data folder. A few rules save a lot of time:

• Find the right entry first. One vehicles.meta or carvariations.meta can hold several vehicles. Search for the spawn name in <modelName> and only edit inside that entry.
• Use a code editor such as VS Code or Notepad++. They show broken XML, which a plain text editor doesn't.
• Keep a copy of the original file before you change it.
• Restart the server after editing. Meta files are read when a resource starts. Restarting only the resource while players are in the server can leave old data loaded, or crash players who are sitting in that vehicle.

New to add-on vehicles? Start with Installing vehicles.