Los Santos Customs

"National leader in car customization, not to be confused with the lovely people who greet you with rubber gloves on arrival at Los Santos International Airport."

- Description at Bawsaq.com.

Los Santos Customs is a vehicle customization and repair shop featured in Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online. The player can buy stocks from them at Bawsaq.com.

Description
"Residents of Los Santos take great pride in their cars. They spend the majority of the day in them. When you're ready to trick out your ride, visit LS Customs, because nothing says class like neon. Customized wheels, paint, body kits and more are available to make your ride your own."

- Rockstargames.com description

Their garages serve as a replacement for the Pay 'n' Spray shops featured in previous titles. Los Santos Customs is very similar to TransFender garages in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as well as the mod shops used in , a video game series developed and published by Rockstar.

The player is able to lose any wanted level by entering Los Santos Customs. However, if the player is spotted by the police while approaching the workshop, then the garage door will not open for the player. It is possible for the player to kill the mechanic inside while the garage door is open, allowing the player to walk in and explore freely. However, once the shop is exited, it will be closed until the player leaves the area.

Los Santos Customs is an obvious parody of, a business located in Los Angeles offering similar services, popularized in the MTV show . West Coast Customs was also responsible for producing the real-life Banshee as part of the game's promotion.

The player can "stalk" Los Santos Customs on the real life Lifeinvader, and will receive an in-game coupon for a free respray.

Garage Locations
There are four Los Santos Customs garages in San Andreas, located on:

It is possible to enter all branches of Los Santos Customs (and Beeker's Garage) on foot. The Los Santos Customs branch in Harmony and Beeker's Garage can both be accessed through a small side door to the left of the vehicle entrance, while the branches in Burton, La Mesa, and Los Santos International Airport must be accessed by parking a car far enough into the entrance that the door can't close, but not so far that the cutscene of the car entering is triggered, before getting out of the car and walking in.

LSC as an Owned Property
The Harmony branch of the company is one of the properties available to be purchased by Franklin Clinton for $349,000 and generates a weekly income of $1,600. It is available to purchase after the mission Nervous Ron.

E-Mail
Upon purchasing the Harmony Los Santos Customs shop as Franklin, Hao will email the player regarding the purchase:

"WTF? Just heard you bought a franchise in LS Customs, man??? Crazy. Clearly your game's not as weak as I thought it was! Well I guess I can't charge you for work any more :) Just please promise me you won't make me call you boss... Say hi to that shit-talker Lamar."

- Hao's e-mail

Benefits
If Franklin purchases the Los Santos Customs garage on Route 68, all vehicle modifications will be free, although only at that location and only for him. However, it is still possible to take advantage of this and customize other characters' Personal Vehicles for free (e.g. Michael's Tailgater and Premier, Trevor's Bodhi, Amanda's Sentinel and Tracey's Issi). To do this, players need to acquire these vehicles as Franklin; in the case of Michael and Trevor, players will need to move them and their personal vehicle close to Franklin in the game world, before switching characters and taking the car as Franklin. Amanda's and Tracey's cars, meanwhile, can be found at the De Santa Residence.

Employees

 * Hao
 * Unnamed Mechanic
 * J. Jones
 * Franklin Clinton (Owner, optional)

Prominent Appearances in Missions

 * Father/Son
 * Gauntlet

Services
"If you don't leave with polished chrome we didn't do our job."

- Los Santos Customs business guarantee Los Santos Customs serves to provide upgrades and modifications for land vehicles. Modifications are available for both aesthetics and performance. However, care must be taken with performance upgrades as it is possible to modify some cars such that their power and torque are beyond a controllable amount; upgrading the vehicle's transmission is usually an effective counter to this. Los Santos Customs will also repair vehicles if required.

Modifications
Throughout the game's progress, and as the players rank up in GTA Online, various types of car parts will be unlocked for purchase. Progressive performance upgrades are unlocked by winning races in GTA Online. There will be a small yellow star next to the category listing for any items that has been unlocked but not viewed.

Many of the modifications available for vehicles are based on real world aftermarket parts, particularly wheel rims. For example, the Endo V1 rims in the Sport section are based on VOLK TE37's, which are popular in the import scene.

Aesthetics
These modifications do not change the performance of a vehicle, merely its visual appearance. Note that some of these modifications are not available on all vehicles.

Modifications include:
 * Bumpers (Front and back)
 * Exhaust
 * Grille
 * Hood
 * Horn (Stock horn, truck horn, cop horn, clown horn, various musical horns, holiday/timed content horns, and classical car horns, plus several horns exclusive to the Enhanced editon only)
 * Bobbleheads (Enhanced version only)
 * Lights (Stock lights, Xenon lights and Neon lights. Neon lights and underglow exclusive to Enhanced version only)
 * Plates
 * Respray (Both primary and secondary colors (where applicable), including classic (gloss), matte, metallic or pearlescent† paints. Chrome plating and brushed metal finishes are also available. Stripes/liveries available on select vehicles, primarily racing oriented vehicles.)
 * Roll cage
 * Roof (Carbon roofs and sunstrips, along with removal of roof on certain cars, and other roof accessories such as roof racks, luggage, and stripes)
 * Skirts
 * Trims
 * Wheels
 * Type (Including high end, lowrider, muscle, offroad, sport, SUV and tuner wheel types, all rims can be bought as a chrome version as well)
 * Color
 * Accessories (Custom branded and bulletproof tires, as well as white, black, blue, yellow, green, orange, red, purple, pink and crew colour tire smoke. Patriot tire smoke only available for purchase once a year.)
 * Windows (window tints, which are light smoke, dark smoke and limo, and exclusive to last gen is pure black)

†Pearlescent paint requires that a metallic paint base be applied first. A second color can then be selected under the Pearlescent option, adding a tint or hue to the car. Some combinations of colors work better than others, so some experimentation is recommended. A glitch allows pearlescent to be applied to chrome, matte and metal colours as well, along with crew, allowing for up to three different colours on a single car.

For some vehicles, further unique modifications can be applied. Examples include various truck beds on some pickups, fuel tanks, frames, sidesteps, bodywork and fenders. Some other vehicles (such as the Karin Rebel or the Declasse Tornado) feature multiple variants, with each of these variants featuring unique mods that the other(s) cannot have.

Some motorcycles have unique modification possibilities as well. Examples of these include removable fairings and assorted frames, fuel tanks, seats, rear mudguards, handlebars, mirrors and saddle bags. Additionally, the player can choose the front and rear wheel of bikes independently. However, only the rims can be changed. Selecting custom tires on motorcycles always gives them whitewall tires, similar to lowriders.

On some vehicles, the overstitches of the dashboard, steering wheel and seats matches the color applied on the rims. This modification can be seen on the Osiris and the Zentorno and some other vehicles sharing the same interior. Sometimes, primary colours affect the interior colour of a select few vehicles.

Bonus modifications (these modifications are available only in GTA Online). These modifications include:


 * Loss/Theft Prevention (Insurance and tracker)
 * Explosives (Remote Bomb and ignition bomb)
 * Crew emblems are also available, applied to the hood or the door of the vehicles.
 * Crew tire smoke.

Performance
These modifications are available on all vehicles and affect their performance in some fashion.

Possible modifications include:
 * Armor (Armor upgrades ranging from 20 to 100%)
 * Brakes (Street, sport and race)
 * Engine (EMS upgrades, level 1 to 4)
 * Suspension (3-5 options, dependent upon vehicle)
 * Transmission (Street, sport and race)
 * Turbo Tuning (does not give a nitro boost ability as the name may suggest)
 * Spoilers†

†After title update 1.14, spoilers positively affect the vehicle's traction. Some spoilers work better than others on certain vehicles. Downforce is heavily affected by spoilers.

LSC in GTA Online
Los Santos Customs works in the same way in Grand Theft Auto Online as it does in Grand Theft Auto V, with the added benefit of being a chop shop. Once per in-game day (48 real time minutes), players can deliver a vehicle to an LSC garage in Free Mode and sell it, receiving a cash payout in return. Assuming vehicles are delivered in undamaged condition, players will receive a payout equaling 10% of the car's retail value (the price for the car when new). For example, a car that can be purchased for $30,000 will net the player $3,000 at LSC.

It should be noted that vehicles with a retail value in excess of $100,000 can only be sold if they were legally purchased by the player (e.g. from Legendarymotorsport.net). However, cheaper vehicles with a retail value of less than $100,000 can be stolen on the street and sold for profit. Motorcycles have a lower retail limit however. Taking a vehicle that cannot be sold to a chop shop will give the player a message that the vehicle is "too hot". There are visually modified gang vehicles that can be found in south and east Los Santos that will net a higher value payout.

Any personal vehicle purchased online and later sold at Los Santos Customs will net 50% of the new cost and 50% of the value of any applied customization. When selling any vehicle with a tracker, the money will be banked immediately, whereas selling a hot car stolen from the street will put the funds in the player's carried wallet.

In the Enhanced Version, along with the previously mentioned "gang" modified vehicles, the player can commonly see other visually-modified vehicles spawning in some locations around the map. Most of these NPC pre-modified vehicles can be sold at LS Customs for a premium price although some will still be "too hot". Currently active discounts on any of the parts used in the modifications will result in a relative reduction in the sale price.

Vehicle values
Below is a list of vehicles in GTA Online. Note that the following values will only be given if the vehicle is in undamaged condition with no active discounts on their modification parts.

Pre-modified
* As of Los Santos Summer Special update patch 1.51, these vehicles can enter Los Santos Customs when on the Simeon Export List but can only be resprayed (free), and using a pre-modified example does not impact the final export price at Simeon's Delivery Garage at Terminal.

Stock Vehicles
For the full list of vehicle values, see Los Santos Customs Vehicle Prices.

iFruit App
The real life iFruit app allows the player to order modifications in GTA V and GTA Online, and create custom/vanity licence plates for their Online characters Personal Vehicles. A select amount of characters can be used on plates, although profane words is strangely allowed on plates.

Bugs/Glitches

 * Before the 1.17 update, there was a glitch where the section "fenders" were still marked with a star (a new feature is added), even if the player has checked all of them. The same happens with horns on last gen versions of the game.
 * If the player spooks and kills the mechanic with occupied players inside, the players will appear, leaving them vulnerable to be killed by the player who killed the mechanic. Killing the mechanic inside will close down the shop for a while, making it unusable until he respawns.

Trivia

 * All but two of the vehicle modification shops in Grand Theft Auto Online are Los Santos Customs outlets; the others are an independent tuning garage known as Beeker's Garage, located in Paleto Bay, and Benny's Original Motor Works, a low rider modification shop located in Strawberry.
 * If the player adds armor to their car as Franklin or the GTA Online Protagonist, the mechanic may ask, "You got some heat with the Ballas or something?"
 * If the player drives any vehicle while wearing the Epsilon robe into Los Santos Customs as Michael, the mechanic will shout, "Kifflom!"
 * In the email he sends to Franklin upon purchasing the Harmony branch, Hao states he will no longer charge for modifications. However, modifications are only free for Franklin at the Harmony outlet, whereas Hao works at the Los Santos International Airport branch.
 * The Pure Black window tint is currently exclusive to Enhanced versions of GTA Online. It completely turns all windows on a car except for the windshield black, making it impossible to see in or out of the car. It was presumably removed in the next gen release to accommodate for the new first-person mode, as the blacked-out windows would have made it impossible to look out of the car in first person, thus making it very unlikely it will ever return. However, mods can still add it back in GTA V.
 * Pre-modified vehicles in GTA Online are never locked. As many are too hot to enter LSC to be fixed, presumably it is so the player will not have to break a window if they want to joyride around in a unique car, or always have to repair the damage if it can be sold.

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