Should I dismantle cars if I have loot respawn enabled?

[Fizzie]

Wondering if I should use a wrench to dismantle "searchable" cars. I have loot respawn enabled every 7 days. Should I just stick to dismantling cars that are broken down and cant be searched?

[dexter]

There's resources you need from cars so you will have to dismantle a lot of them. Cars within the radius of quests will respawn when you start them though, so no harm done if you dismantle all of them.

[DarkFaceGlow]

I usually leave cop cars, ambulances and utility trucks alone. The rest are scrap.

[Ragequit Inc.]

I would argue that there's enough cars in the world to not worry about it. If you're prepared to travel a bit.

I'm on day 140-something and haven't even explored all the towns/cities on the map, so there's still plenty of cars to be found. Not that I really even need the loot from them, the materials from dismantling them is of more value to me.

Granted, I always have loot respawn disabled, so I wouldn't have to worry about it anyway. :)

[wizdmalegj]

Originally posted by DarkFaceGlow:

I usually leave cop cars, ambulances and utility trucks alone. The rest are scrap.

Same.

[optOut]

Originally posted by wizdmalegj:

Originally posted by DarkFaceGlow:

I usually leave cop cars, ambulances and utility trucks alone. The rest are scrap.

Same.

Same.

[jynx]

There's a quest tied to wrenching cars. Cars on POI's will be regenerated when you start a quest on them, so you will never run out of cars if you concentrate on those first. It's a waste to wrench indiscriminately if you have low or no salvage skills, because you're missing most of what you could be getting.

[onanonehand8]

Utility trucks, ambulances, fire trucks and other large vehicles, at least in my experiences have a somewhat higher drop rate of batteries and engines, also just more materials.

There are two strategies for cop cars, one-fight the spawn, two-run away, yes they will follow but only for a while. Then return and get your reward.

With a wrench, scavenging results may vary with a higher skill level, but I have never noticed it. What I do notice is stamina loss, always have enough stamina to get away if an alarm goes off.

[BurningSoul]

well since there is a chunk reset setting, dismantling cars shouldn't matter much.

[neock]

i just wrench the cars that cant be searched. still get plenty of mats out of those

[Ak-87]

cop cars are amazing dont scrap