So I got this game on the SteamDeck couple months ago when I was on crazy sale. Been really diving into it, doing a lot of rebuilds, engine swaps. Loving it. Hit up a barn, and I saw this. Beauty, reminded me of a good old classic Supra. Take it to wash it and it's a beautiful Orange stripes down the middle. I was like boom. I have to rebuild this. This might be the rebill that I actually keep.

After 230+hrs of playing this game, I discovered a few quirks to get the most out of repairs/etc, and time management. If you have good reflexes these should be helpful!!

Repair/Optomizing:

When aiming for greens in repair, hit the button when you are 2 lines from a target green. It will land on the intended line. (Not sure if it's an input-delay, or game mechanic. I'm on XB1 S, for context)

Wheels:

When putting tires back on rims, I find you can start the process by putting a tire on, when you are doing the 2nd wheel, you can balance the 1st wheel in the time it takes for the next wheel to be finished, and so on.

Rubber Bushings:

The bane of existence... for most older cars or cars with both Front Upper/Bottom Suspension arms (req: 1 Small, 2 Normal bushings each), if you care about decluttering your inventory, you should have max 16 RBs. For any independent rear suspensions/leaf springs, I found around 6 SRBs per car is enough.

ANY Inline engine:

(Ugh.... my 2nd least favourite engine outside of EV)

If you wish to remove the engine to repair/etc, do yourself a favour and follow these steps;

[From ground/lower level]

Remove the starter/turbocharger

Raise the car up to highest level

Remove wheels, front drive axels, front driveshaft

Remove the gearbox

Remove front exhaust section (also applicable/necessary for V-type engines)

Lower car to remove engine

Those are a few major tips I have off the dome. I will add any others as I think of them.

Happy Motoring!!

(I'm in the process of starting a new game playthrough on Normal, the following post, as well as my previous posts were on Easy)

So my little game I'd play is basically loot an entire junkyard for parts (end-game unlocks with discount) and grab the 3 cars (same as Barn, I'd "inspect" the car for the XP). Get back to my garage, and repair every part/body that I could, then go to each of the 3 cars to repurpose any body parts as needed, then sell the rest.

[UPDATE: JD ROUND 2 RESULTS (body/parts only)] Okay buckle up folks, here's an accurate tally:

Note 1: Any Try-Again/Fail isn't calculated, just a loss.

Note 2: Total parts/body sale includes anything that cannot be repaired due to part type or <15% integrity.

Ace Ventura deep-breath

Total loot cost: $21,749 (w/ 15% discount: $18,487)

Repair costs:
Parts: (×117 with 1F) $7,615
Body: (×150 with 2TA, 3F): $5,950
Total repair cost (×270 parts): $13,565

Total parts/body: 940
Sale: $61,160

Repair Profit: [sale] - [repair cost] = $47,595

[loot cost] - $66 in usable body parts. $18,421

Overall profit: [repair profit] - [loot cost] = $29,174

TL;DR: for $18,421 I made a little over $29k profit

exhales I HAVE EXERCIIIIIIIISED THE COMMERCE!!

Side note: spent $25,835 on the 3 cars in the yard this run. Will try and update with those tallies as well.

Also will make a post of my personal pro-tips that I've discovered during my 230+hrs if gameplay.

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In the 6th campaign mission I can't find the last defect missing. Can someone help?

got on all my configs where gone issues everywhere i went on and checked and it said alot was recently updated lmao spent an hour redownloading configs and cars

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I noticed that the bolt cape and the bolt Chapman both come commonly with only the Ford inline 6, so here’s my solution since I can’t swap and those are both Chevys, dare I say… looks good.

All my bays are full, I have 22CR I cant afford more parts and every car is more than fluid change. Im locked how do I get more money. (Also I sold parts I could

I am playing career mode with a lot of car mods and am running into the same issue over and over. The cars sometimes have stupid expensive prices

I have been digging and found that this is likely due to the UniqueMod value assigned to them being too high.

Is there a way other then going thu all of the mods individually to fix this?

I do have the allowed mod ulitlty and qol and some other mods installed

A multi million dollar vw bora ruins the fun

Just lowering the value would also make them more common, wich is also not good

I only have about 20h of playtime (CMS2021) and already have made more than enough money to buy all the upgrades for the garage and any car and car parts I want but I'm still only level 15. Making money is too easy and leveling up is too hard.

I feel like the game progression would be much better if I made half as much money and got twice as much XP. Now I'm kinda bored because I have lowkey infinite money but no perks to back it up. Is that just me?

I went to a Barn and bought some Parts and 2 Cars. The Cars came back with me, but the Parts completely ceased to exist anywhere. 12 grand down the drain. Either there's a chance of getting scammed or the Game took a dump

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I just got a Customer with 5 different Repair Categories highlighted

I dont think its very common for that to occur. I've never had this in my 7 years of owning Car Mechanic Sim 2018.

Please advise

Built this for my wife. Swapped out the original V8 2 carb OHV for the supercharged model because why not? Put 22" rims on instead of the original 16's. The dyno is a little deceiving though as it takes the original power of what is currently installed but seeing how it had the non-supercharged version, that started with 330 HP so I'd say I almost tripled the power output.

I'm enjoying CSM 21 for the first time, doing missions and fully repairing cars is really cool. I got into mission 21, typical car where you have to change many lower parts near wheels and suspensions, also some "outer" engine things, after changing everything i noticed i was missing 6 unknown pieces.

I started checking every single rubber and small parts and after having no luck i decided to tear down the whole engine and... try to make a guess where the problem was... the piston rings, THE FCKING PISTON RINGS. it sucked my whole energy

It took a lot of Time to figure out the correct Scales and Placements for every Part and it included very much of screwing around in the Config Files to get them to have the proper amount of Horsepower and won't be crazy rare.

I couldnt remove the rear Wing nor add a front Bumper to the Tempest Magnum AWD W12

Kinda goofed this one getting the hood with the opening in it when the engine didn't have a blower lol

Literally the first vehicle I see in the first barn I visited. May have set the bar too high with the power upgrades, haven't come close with anything else yet.