My car/bike is not in impound. (STORY MODE)

[Let It Marinate]

I was playing as franklin and I was driving around in my bike, and this lady's car got stolen. So after shooting the thief while riding my bike, I had to get in the car and give it to the lady.
So I did. But after returning back to the place I left the bike I couldn't find it. I went to the impound but it was not there. Then I went back my safe house garage and it was not there either. I have been having this issue a lot and I have spent thousands of dollars on cars and bikes customising them and I think I should stop doing that now.
But is there any fix to this aside from mods?

thanks

[Mighty Chonker]

Only purchased cars that are modified at LS Customs go to impound. Player default vehicles go back to the safehouse.

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Originally posted by Mighty Chonker:

Only purchased cars that are modified at LS Customs go to impound. Player default vehicles go back to the safehouse.

its a car I stole and modified

[morph113]

The game has a really strange way of deciding what gets impounded and what not. I got cars and bikesimpounded that I just stole off the street (and didn't even modify). I also had cars that I bought getting not impounded. It's a messy system in singleplayer and you should just treat it as if any car that you leave somewhere for whatever reason will be gone forever, except the original character owned vehicles of course, which always respawn no matter what. So if you stole or bought another car and leave it somewhere, don't count on it getting impounded or anything. Just don't leave it anywhere and bring it back to a garage (the 4 car garage) to make sure you keep it when you save the game. The 1 or 2 car garages from player homes are prone to despawn vehicles as well, a bug that was never properly fixed since the game came out 7 years ago.

[Let It Marinate]

Originally posted by morph113:

The game has a really strange way of deciding what gets impounded and what not. I got cars and bikesimpounded that I just stole off the street (and didn't even modify). I also had cars that I bought getting not impounded. It's a messy system in singleplayer and you should just treat it as if any car that you leave somewhere for whatever reason will be gone forever, except the original character owned vehicles of course, which always respawn no matter what. So if you stole or bought another car and leave it somewhere, don't count on it getting impounded or anything. Just don't leave it anywhere and bring it back to a garage (the 4 car garage) to make sure you keep it when you save the game. The 1 or 2 car garages from player homes are prone to despawn vehicles as well, a bug that was never properly fixed since the game came out 7 years ago.

Damn, that sucks. I wish it worked well tho. I really want to upgrade the personal vehicles, but I feel like they would be just taken away just like how jimmy took mike's car after leaving him and left him with a pretty bad car. I guess I am just gonna have to complete the game and upgrade them then.

And yes, I did just buy the game.

[globefish23]

Only vehicles you store in the purchaseable 4-slot garages will persistently be saved, as they load a separate instance.

Garages from the various safehouses often lose vehicles.
Vehicles you leave on the street often disappear.
When you're busted or wasted, your vehicle often doesn't get impounded.

So, always return your vehicle to a 4-slot garage.

Or use the protagonists' default vehicles.

[Let It Marinate]

Originally posted by globefish23:

Only vehicles you store in the purchaseable 4-slot garages will persistently be saved, as they load a separate instance.

Garages from the various safehouses often lose vehicles.
Vehicles you leave on the street often disappear.
When you're busted or wasted, your vehicle often doesn't get impounded.

So, always return your vehicle to a 4-slot garage.

Or use the protagonists' default vehicles.

Alright then, thanks for that. I really wish it wasn’t like that. Hope the garage system is much better in the next GTA.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by Get Gaming:

Originally posted by globefish23:

Only vehicles you store in the purchaseable 4-slot garages will persistently be saved, as they load a separate instance.

Garages from the various safehouses often lose vehicles.
Vehicles you leave on the street often disappear.
When you're busted or wasted, your vehicle often doesn't get impounded.

So, always return your vehicle to a 4-slot garage.

Or use the protagonists' default vehicles.

Alright then, thanks for that. I really wish it wasn’t like that. Hope the garage system is much better in the next GTA.

Well, they added the whole tracker & insurance system in GTAO.
You can always see where your personal vehicle is on the map, if it's destroyed you can get it back from your insurance. The police impound also works reliable.

Guess they just didn't bother to retroactively add it to single player.
AFAIR, there are mods that do so, if you bother and risk a ban when (accidentally) going online.


A semi-solution:
During story mode, you'll get the chance to do some assassinations for Lester, coupled with stock market manipulation.
Save them all (except for the first which is mandatory for progression) for after you've finished the final story mission, so you can maximize the winnings from the stock market.
If you've also done all side missions and extra money sources, you can get $1.5 billion per protagonist.

You're then so rich to simply buy a new vehicle whenever one is lost.