Downtown Mechanic is a complete mechanic shop MLO for FiveM, built inside an existing Los Santos building. Three service bays, each behind its own roller door and fitted with a custom lift. A tyre corner with wheel balancers, racks and rims. A wall of tool chests, oils and gas cylinders. And at the back, an office and a lounge with sofas, a jukebox and a soda machine — more than 150 placed pieces, with the lifts, balancers, wheel racks, desks, chairs, sofas and doors modelled for this map.
What sets it apart from a static map is that it changes with your server. Two optional layers turn the workshop into a meet — a gazebo, a barbecue, tables and chairs — and then lay out a spread of burgers, tacos and drinks on top. One command switches them live for every player, the choice is saved across restarts, and there is nothing else to install: no framework, no database, no dependencies.
Where to start#
Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
Requirements, the game build, download, server.cfg, the starting layer and the command permission. | |
The three layers, what each one adds, switching them live and how the choice is saved. | |
Frameworks, mechanic jobs and their points inside the workshop, and the vanilla files the map replaces. | |
The /mechanicmap command, its two network events, and switching layers from your own scripts. | |
What each problem means, the console lines to look for, and conflicts with other maps. |
What it does#
Area | Details |
|---|---|
Service bays | Three bays, each behind a custom roller garage door and fitted with a custom lift, plus two engine hoists, car creepers and power drills. |
Tyres and wheels | Two wheel balancers, five wheel racks, hub racks and eighteen rims on display. |
Parts and tools | Tool chests and drawer units, oil cans, paint tins, gas cylinders and racks, pallets, a sack truck and a custom pipe run. |
Office and lounge | Two desks, three sofas around a coffee table, ceiling TVs, a jukebox, a soda machine, a key cabinet, trophies and framed car art. |
Event layers | A meet setup — gazebo, barbecue, tables and chairs — and a food layer of 57 dishes and drinks laid out on it. Switched live, synced to everyone, remembered after a restart. |
Exterior | The original building, its collisions and its distant versions are replaced, so the shop fits the street seamlessly up close and from across the city. |
Compatibility | Standalone. Runs the same on ESX · QBCore · Qbox · ox_core · ND_Core or no framework at all. No SQL, no config file. |
Running events from your own scripts? A server resource opens the meet with one line, and a client script can listen for the moment it opens. See Commands and Exports.