Unlocks at What Level?

What game features unlock at what level? This guide puts all that information in one place.

What Game Features Unlock at What Level

The places you can find buyable autos charge different fees to visit:
- Auctions = $200 per visit
- Junkyard = $500 per visit
- Barns = $100 per visit
(You can turn these fees off in game options.)

XP Level	What Unlocks
1	Your Basic Garage. 1-lifter, tire changer, wheel balancer and spring puller, radio and phone. Click the phone to choose from among available customer jobs.
1	Parking. One level with 12 parking spots (You can buy more levels.)
1	Test Track. Use to determine broken steering, gearbox and suspension parts. (N.B. test path does not discover all bad steering-related parts.)
1	Bonus Track - Abandoned Airport. For free roam fooling around. (Doughnuts, or even perhaps driving off the edge of the world if you like to do that)
1	Race Track. For time trials around a loop track
1	Car Salon, aka Car Dealer. For buying new and expensive cars.)
4+	Garage Level II Upgrade. Adds test path and repair bench to your garage. The test path is in your shop, through the red metal doors by your repair bench. Here, you can find bad brake parts, bad bushings, shocks and other suspension issues. But not all.
6	Barns. Go to purchase cars in mid to poor condition. 1, 2 or sometimes even 3 cars available. Also random used parts. Note, you might receive a map to a barn earlier than level 6, as a reward for a special customer job.
12+	Garage Level III Upgrade. Adds 2nd lifter and parts warehouse. Also the engine lift and stand system, for you to lift an engine out and repair it on the engine stand.
12+	Junkyard. Go here to purchase mid to poor condition cars and random used parts. Like a very large barn with a larger selection than a barn, typically 6-8 vehicles.
12+	Garage Customization. If you download the (free) DLC, you can from now on customize your garage. Change the appearance of floor tiles, walls, lifters, etc. to suit your mood or the holiday color scheme (Click on the ladder near door #2, in your level III garage.)
18+	Auction. Go here to bid on an assortment of cars in good condition (but not perfect). Usually about 10-15 cars available at an auction, which is much more than you see in a barn or a junkyard at one time.
30+	Garage Level IV Upgrade. Adds paint shop, a third lifter, a welder (to repair car frame) and cleaning / detailing tools (to improve interior condition). Also a battery charger, to magically make old batteries new. If you have the Tuning DLC, you also get a Dyno in a dedicated room. This is the level you have been waiting for: At last you can get cars looking nice, and to 100% condition in all 4 areas (parts, body, interior, frame). Imagine, a $100 interior cleanup job can increase the value of the car by $5000. I kid you not.
35+	Able to repair car body parts --doors, bumpers, etc. This should allow you to fix any car to 100% without having to buy so many new parts.

[FaustLevity]

Whats that lucky skill at lvl 50?
I´m at lvl 47 currently btw.

[Limmin]

Left click on the oil fill cap and oil will appear in your hand.

[ate16amoco]

were is oil

[Maison De Cornusiac]

Late game advanced workshop should also have a paint cabin.

[Maison De Cornusiac]

Wondering why they put body work so far, in reality it is so easy to weld and form sheet metal. Sad I have to wait so long...

[Limmin]

Maybe they'll find a way around the issue of unpainted or wrong color parts in the next version of CMS.

[JimmyG]

Thanks Limmin. I had refurbished a vehicle and when I got a couple of body parts for it they came as black. I didn't see a way of asking for a color from the body shop, and didn't see of any way of having it painted so I gave up and sold it :)

[Limmin]

Not without the paint shop, as far as I know. That arrives no sooner than level 30.

[JimmyG]

Sorry for the dumb question but is there a way to paint parts before 30?

[Daisy]

what dose the good to be lucky thing do at level 50