How does vehicle repair work - exactly - ?

[Beast of War]

I now have a large vehicle repair building. It has external storage for all required materials, which are kept full at all times. There are 6 trucks assigned as repair vehicles.

Yet....There is not much sense in what the building does.

Vehicles that are displayed as being in a queue are not repaired and stay in queue. They are not coming to the building and repair vehicles do not go out to them. When i press the wrench symbol on a broken vehicle ( request for repair ) all repair trucks are not responding and just sit in the building. Once in a while one does go out but not to the ones first in the queue.

Sometimes vehicles come to the building and get repaired in one of the lanes. Often they do not come and just sit in their own yard or assigned building, request for repair being ignored. Often repair trucks go to a building and block outgoing vehicles causing a traffic jam.

I know this is a beta version and bugs are to be expected. But am i doing something wrong ( is this a capacity or distance problem ? ) or does it not work that well ?

[Vimes]

Those vehicles that are shown when a time clock in the repair stations Window are not often on their way for repair but just standing waiting or not visiting the repair station.
Sometimes they just seem to carry on what they are doing, personal cars included.

Some vehicles seem to be waiting for repairs within DO's whilst others will call and be repaired before them.

It doesn't seem to do with how busy the repair station is, or how it is staffed.

Take a read and watch the videos I have posted at the end of this thread....

https://steamcommunity.com/app/784150/discussions/6/3816284554977825605/

to illustrate that.

Helicopter repairs are doing well. They will deviate from their route to repair station with pad attached. Make sure you have aluminium supplied to those stations as well as other materials needed for helicopter repairs.
Aircraft will repair, but with an attached repair station. Again aluminium needed, as well as other materials.

Ship repairs seem to work BUT the repair station needs to be attached to the dock type that the ship visits. You can arrange it so that the station connects to two docks easily. IIRC they seem to need a lot of mechanical parts and so make sure you have enough of those being stored.

I use a small warehouse, with FLT's, attached to most of the repair stations. But I supply steel and aluminium directly

Trains, some limitations and that is still a job in progress to monitor.

In total I have 17 repair stations built, 117k population.

Ensure you stagger the repair needs per vehicle type, to ensure not too many are needing repairs all at one time. At least that is what I do. Altho they do seem to wear at differing rates.

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