In Grand Theft Auto V, road assistance and mechanic services are primarily handled through the phone contact system in GTA Online, allowing players to repair, customize, and retrieve vehicles.
Mechanic Services in GTA Online
• Requesting Vehicles: You can call the "Mechanic" from your phone contacts to deliver any owned vehicle from your garages to your current location.
• Delivery Locations: If you are on a dirt road, the mechanic will usually drop the vehicle off on the nearest main road.
• Limitations: The mechanic will not deliver vehicles during certain jobs, such as Survivals or Heists, and may become "otherwise occupied".
• Payment & Fees: The mechanic charges a daily fee of roughly $50 in-game (about 48 minutes in real life). If this fee is not paid, the mechanic will stop working.
• Repairing Vehicles: While the mechanic delivers, they do not repair vehicles on the spot. To repair, you must drive the car into your garage (if you have at least $1,000) or take it to Los Santos Customs.
Alternative Roadside Assistance & Repairs
• Auto Shop Business: Players can own an Auto Shop, which provides specialized services including customizing and delivering NPC vehicles for profit.
• Free Repair Glitch: Driving a damaged vehicle into a car wash and immediately exiting the menu can sometimes repair the car for free.
• New Session: Switching to a new online session can sometimes fix a broken car.
• Roleplay (RP) Servers: In dedicated RP servers, player-controlled mechanics can be called to repair or tow vehicles, acting as a direct roadside assistance service.
Story Mode
- In single-player Story Mode, the mechanic contact is generally unavailable, and vehicles must be repaired at standard mechanic shops (Los Santos Customs).

































