Guides / Firms / Used Cars🚙 Used Cars firms
Buy second-hand cars and sell them from your lot. A used car firm buys cars from the scrapyard and from other players, parks them on its lot and sells them on. The franchise dealerships sell new cars. You sell everything else.
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Getting started
Fee, registration and your lot
$85,000to register: the $50,000 base fee plus $35,000 for the field
No licenseanyone can start a used car firm
15cars fit on your lot to start with
Register the firm
Registration happens at the Red County Administration Building front desk with /firmcreate [field] [abbreviation] [name]. The abbreviation is up to 8 characters and the name up to 64. The fee comes out of your cash and you become the owner. Use the field name usedcars.
Find stock
Buy cars from the scrapyard pool or from players, as described below.
Open the lot
Park each car where you want it and put it on sale.
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Finding cars
Where the stock comes from
The scrapyard
Every car a player scraps waits in a pool at the scrapyard, tuning and all. At the yard use /usedpool to see what is there and buy one. The price is what the scrapper was paid, and it comes out of the firm bank. The car appears next to you, ready to drive to your lot.
Other players
Players sell you a car with /carsell. When you are the buyer you choose whether it is for you or for the firm, and you see its mileage and scrap value to help you judge a fair price.
Both need permissions. Buying cars for the firm needs the vehicles and bank permissions. Owners and managers have them by default.
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Selling from your lot
Prices, parking and customers
Park and price
Drive the car to your lot and use /usedcar price [amount]. It parks where it stands, stays there after restarts and gets a green FOR SALE label showing the price and mileage.
Pick a fair price
The asking price can be anything from 30% to 100% of the car's price when new.
The customer buys
They stand next to the car, use /dl to see its vehicle id and then /buyusedcar [vehicle id]. They need the cash and a free vehicle slot.
The money
It goes into your firm bank and the car becomes theirs, with the doors locked.
- /usedcar unlist takes a car off sale, /usedcar park saves where a car is parked and /usedcar list shows every car your firm owns.
- Only your firm's members can drive the cars on your lot, so customers can't test drive them.
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Mileage and value
What a car is worth
Every car counts the distance it actually drives. The more miles it has done, the less the scrapyard pays and the less a car is worth. For a car that cost $40,000 new:
| Miles driven | Share of the new price | Scrap value |
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| Up to 100 | 50% | $20,000 |
| 1,000 | about 44% | about $17,600 |
| 2,000 | about 36% | about $14,400 |
| 3,000 | about 28% | about $11,200 |
| 4,000 or more | 20% | $8,000 |
Closing the firm is final. Every car on the lot goes back to the scrapyard pool and the firm gets nothing for them.
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Your crew
Ranks, permissions and the firm bank
A firm starts with room for 10 members. The owner invites people with /firminvite and everyone works under one of four ranks. Each member also has permissions, and the owner can see who has what with /firmmembers.
| Rank | Title | Default permissions |
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| 1 | Owner | Everything |
| 2 | Manager | Invite, kick, change ranks, use the bank, field tools and vehicles |
| 3 | Employee | Field tools only: the job commands in this guide |
| 4 | Trainee | Nothing. A trainee is on the roster but can't use the job tools yet |
- Promote or demote with /firmrank [player] [1-4], or /firmorank [character id] when they are offline. /firmkick and /firmokick remove someone.
- Members clock in with /firmduty. Most job commands only work while you are on duty.
- The firm bank is shared. Anyone can deposit with /firmbank deposit [amount], but withdrawing needs the bank permission. Owners and managers have it.
- Only the owner can close the firm, with /firmclose. Closing is final.
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Commands
Everything for this firm in one place
/usedpoolAt a scrapyard: browse and buy scrapped cars for the firm.
/carsell [player] [price]Sells your own car. A used car firm buyer chooses whether it is for the firm.
/usedcar price [amount]Puts the car you are driving on sale and parks it.
/usedcar unlist / park / listTakes a car off sale, saves its parking spot, or lists your cars.
/buyusedcar [vehicle id]Customers: buys a car with a FOR SALE label, using the id from /dl.
/firmbankThe firm bank. Purchases come out of it and sales go in.
Every firm also has /firmhelp, /firmduty, /firmbank, /firmmembers and the invite and rank commands. See the firm guide for those.
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Questions
Common things people ask
How many cars can I keep?
Fifteen on the lot to start with.
Why can't a customer buy a car?
They need the cash and a free vehicle slot, and they have to use the vehicle id shown by /dl.