How do I destroy a car?

[Plok!]

Do grenades damage vehicles?

[Mad Mike]

I tossed 3 at a car last patch and it got damaged but not ruined... Ymmv.

[Mad Mike]

Machine gun untill the engine smokes worked for me everytime though.

[Allavez]

Used to be with matches on 0.62. Try it if you can

[Mad Mike]

Originally posted by Allavez:

Used to be with matches on 0.62. Try it if you can

Yes. This was handy! Failed for me.

[us271934-Слава Україн]

I haven't thrown a lot of explosive grenades just mostly smokers. So I had a car that due to bad driving had the engine light lit up yellow. Since I had another car I decided to practice blowing stuff up with a few grenades. I had seen too many players on youtube blowing themselves up so I made sure I had the keying actions right. I stood back plenty far to avoid eating some shrapnel.
First throw was too far.
Second skidded past.
Third veered off to the left (like my golf swing).
Fourth was a bit short.

And not one infected showed up even though it was in Sintok next to the little medical clinic.

Thinking (not thinking) none were around I took a single M4 shot at the car and BAM! FIFTEEN infected came out of nowhere straight at me. I ducked into a 2 story house that had no angle to shoot the mob hanging by the front door. I went upstairs and saw I could hit the car so I shot it several times and could detect some visual changes. Then it was waiting time until the infected got bored and stumbled off. I pickaxed a few laggard infected and went over to see what the car's condition was - it was RUINED. About 4-5 minutes later it had despawned as predicted by the configuration file I had looked at earlier.

My big take away from this was: Grenades don't attract infected?!?!??!
The 2nd thing I learned: Getting grenades to blow up where you want them to is easier said than done.

[Plok!]

Originally posted by us271934:

I haven't thrown a lot of explosive grenades just mostly smokers. So I had a car that due to bad driving had the engine light lit up yellow. Since I had another car I decided to practice blowing stuff up with a few grenades. I had seen too many players on youtube blowing themselves up so I made sure I had the keying actions right. I stood back plenty far to avoid eating some shrapnel.
First throw was too far.
Second skidded past.
Third veered off to the left (like my golf swing).
Fourth was a bit short.

And not one infected showed up even though it was in Sintok next to the little medical clinic.

Thinking (not thinking) none were around I took a single M4 shot at the car and BAM! FIFTEEN infected came out of nowhere straight at me. I ducked into a 2 story house that had no angle to shoot the mob hanging by the front door. I went upstairs and saw I could hit the car so I shot it several times and could detect some visual changes. Then it was waiting time until the infected got bored and stumbled off. I pickaxed a few laggard infected and went over to see what the car's condition was - it was RUINED. About 4-5 minutes later it had despawned as predicted by the configuration file I had looked at earlier.

My big take away from this was: Grenades don't attract infected?!?!??!
The 2nd thing I learned: Getting grenades to blow up where you want them to is easier said than done.

Yep I threw my grenade over the car and was disappointed a lot. I saw the guy driving past me few times there was no clear shot so I stumbled across his car parked few towns up north in the woods. I waited for a long time for him to come back it never happened :( I just wanted the car to go away. Nade flew over it and did no dmg at all.

[ribeye007]

just shoot it till smoking and will despawn after restart