How long do vehicles last in dayz

DayZ Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages. DayZ Mod Wiki Admin noticeboard. Official DayZ Links. Website Forum Twitter Discord. MBraedley Also, heli's have been disabled for the time being. This has been for the last few weeks as they needed to work out some bugs with it I suppose. So don't spend too much time server hopping to find one, because for now you never will until a patch states that they have added them back.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You have to Save the vehicle in order for it to stay where you left it. Other people can take or destroy the vehicle if they want. If a vehicle is unused, bugged or left, it will respawn after a minimum of 7 days.

Improve this answer. Justin Justin 3, 5 5 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. Source: Experience — Serge Bekenkamp. I gave it a few mins and logged back in. No Ada. So I searched and finally found she had teleported from the quay side about yards away to the bottom of the sea and had spun to face the opposite direction.

Because she was full of nails and metal sheets? Because I had just completed her bodywork? Because I revved her engine too high?

I really don't know. I could see her there beneath the waves, totally unreachable. Poor Ada. Others have happened when the sever restarted without noticing it was about to happen. I found my position further back up the road from where I was when the server restarted i'm usre you must have experienced that The car was down the road near where I was when the restart kicked me.

Not exactly teleporting but a good pointer if it happens to someone else. The car is usually just down the road. A couple of others have simple despawned out of a locked and unraided base after a couple of days of not being started, even though I interacted with the boot space.

Others I have crashed, romoved the radiator and gone looking for a new one to return and find the car despawned. Its to be expected from what I've been informed and so now I don't try to repair unless I am carrying the parts with me in the boot. While I have come across these issues I still have to say that for the most part the cars have behaved themselves.

While a lot of this was on a private server, I popped back onto a public vanilla server last week. The police car is a land vehicle which is hinted to be a vehicle type which might be introduced upon implementation of vehicles in DayZ Standalone.

Fuel Tanks can be found throughout Chernarus and are most likely to be found either at gas stations, or at medium and large Industrial areas. You can help DayZ Wiki by uploading an improved version of this image. There are many Fuel Stations located around Chernarus and Livonia. They are usually found at intersections or on the outskirts of some towns, and are characterised by fuel pumps and payment kiosks.

You could pull this off with a few canteens of gas, which barely pegs the needles.