Your framework starts after Vehicle Keys, and detection only sees what is already running. Move its ensure above ensure qs-vehiclekeys and restart the server. The same goes for the inventory.

Usually one of four things:

• The item was spawned with a give command and carries no plate. Hand keys out with /givekeys, the admin panel or the exports, and buy plates at the copy shop.

• The item names in your inventory differ from the ones in config/main.lua.

• On ox_inventory, the plate, GPS and tracker are missing their client.export lines — see Inventory Items.

• ESX's default inventory stores no metadata, so no key can ever work on it.

The interface ships built in web/build/. If that folder is missing or half-copied, the windows stay blank with no error in game — re-copy the whole resource. Check too that the folder is still named qs-vehiclekeys.

Config.Locale names a file that is not in locales/. Use one of the 41 codes listed in Integrations.

Config.Debug ships on. Set it to false once the server is live.

Another resource uses the same key, or the player rebound it. Settings → Key Bindings → FiveM shows and changes every Vehicle Keys binding. The keys in Config.KeyMappings are defaults only — they reach players who have never bound that command.

With OwnerAccessWithoutKey on, owners need no key at all — so the car is not in your framework's owned-vehicle table under that plate, or the framework was not detected. With it off, the player holds no key for this plate: another script may have changed the plate. Recover a key at the bank clerk, or take one from /vkadmin → Give Self Key.

The script that spawned it did not hand over a key. Add the one-line export call to its spawn code — Integrations shows it — or, for a script written for qb-vehiclekeys, check that it fires vehiclekeys:client:SetOwner or qb-vehiclekeys:client:AddKeys, and that any exports['qb-vehiclekeys'] call now says qs-vehiclekeys.

Either the job script gives a key when it spawns the vehicle, or list the models in Config.NoLockVehicles so they never need one.

Config.Hotwire.Enabled is false, or a script called disableHotwire(true) for that player. With hotwiring off, a key is no longer needed to drive. If it is only some models, they are in a Whitelist or in NoLockVehicles — exempt on purpose.

Target player is too far away — stand within 8 m. Target already has this vehicle key — they hold it already. And yes, the giver keeps their own key: a transfer hands over a copy.

/givekeys is for admins. Players share keys through F7, the key transfer menu.

It removes every key for a car the player does not own in the database — job vehicles and friends' cars included. On a standalone server that is every key. Switch it off with Config.CleanKeys.Enabled = false.

A garage or job gives keys with bypassKeyCheck = true every time it spawns a car. Pass false and a player who already holds the key is skipped.

That action has RequirePolice on and MinimumPolice above the number of online players whose job is in Config.PoliceJobs. Robbing NPC drivers asks for two by default. Check the job names, and that they are written as police = true — a plain list counts nobody.

Hotwiring is off, the model is exempt, or the player already has access — a key, the master key or ownership. Only the driver's seat shows the prompt.

Stealing keys needs a gun drawn and aimed at an NPC who is driving — not a passenger, not a parked car, not a player — within MaxDistance.

Each car's driver can be robbed once per session, so a player cannot farm the same car.

The item in your inventory has a different name from Config.Lockpick.Item or AdvancedItem. Note that /lockpick always uses the standard one — use the advanced item from the inventory.

Lockpicks only work on locked cars. Try the door first.

Correct behaviour: a lockpick opens doors, nothing more. Hotwire the car, or set Config.Lockpick.GiveKeyOnSuccess = true.

The plate item has no plate number — it was given with a command. Buy plates at the copy shop, which numbers each one. On ox_inventory any plate is numbered automatically when it is created.

An owned car already wears that plate. Use another plate item.

Config.Plate.RequireOwnedVehicle is on and the car is not in the owned-vehicle table. Swaps on cars nobody owns need that setting off.

The car is stored in a garage, or too far away for the player's game to have loaded it. The tracker can only point at cars that are out and in range.

Removal needs ox_target and Config.Tracker.UseTarget, and the option only shows on cars in the player's own tracker list — ones they fitted, or hold a key to.

/tracker needs the receiver, vehicletracker, in the inventory.

Payment comes from the account in Config.CopyShop.Account — money on ESX, cash on QBCore — not the bank. On a standalone server every priced service is refused; set the prices to 0.

Both copy services need the original key in your inventory. For the nearby copy, the car must also be parked right beside you — within InteractDistance, 2 m by default.

The player's job is not in Config.Diagnostic.AllowedJobs (or AllowedTintJobs for the tint meter). An empty table lets everyone use it.

interact-sound is not running, or carkeys.ogg is not in its sounds folder. Check Config.Sounds too — see Integrations.

The player is not an admin by your framework's rule. Installation → Admin Access lists who counts on ESX, QBCore and standalone.

On standalone there is no owned-vehicle table to read. On ESX and QBCore, the list comes from owned_vehicles or player_vehicles — if your garage stores cars elsewhere, adapt the queries in custom/<framework>/server.lua.

Give Owner Key needs the owner on the server. Take the key with Give Self Key and hand it over later, or wait for them to join.

Go To Vehicle can only reach a car your game has loaded. Cars in a garage, or far across the map, are out of its reach.

Your framework starts after Vehicle Keys, and detection only sees what is already running. Move its ensure above ensure qs-vehiclekeys and restart the server. The same goes for the inventory.

Usually one of four things:

• The item was spawned with a give command and carries no plate. Hand keys out with /givekeys, the admin panel or the exports, and buy plates at the copy shop.

• The item names in your inventory differ from the ones in config/main.lua.

• On ox_inventory, the plate, GPS and tracker are missing their client.export lines — see Inventory Items.

• ESX's default inventory stores no metadata, so no key can ever work on it.

The interface ships built in web/build/. If that folder is missing or half-copied, the windows stay blank with no error in game — re-copy the whole resource. Check too that the folder is still named qs-vehiclekeys.

Config.Locale names a file that is not in locales/. Use one of the 41 codes listed in Integrations.

Config.Debug ships on. Set it to false once the server is live.

Another resource uses the same key, or the player rebound it. Settings → Key Bindings → FiveM shows and changes every Vehicle Keys binding. The keys in Config.KeyMappings are defaults only — they reach players who have never bound that command.

With OwnerAccessWithoutKey on, owners need no key at all — so the car is not in your framework's owned-vehicle table under that plate, or the framework was not detected. With it off, the player holds no key for this plate: another script may have changed the plate. Recover a key at the bank clerk, or take one from /vkadmin → Give Self Key.

The script that spawned it did not hand over a key. Add the one-line export call to its spawn code — Integrations shows it — or, for a script written for qb-vehiclekeys, check that it fires vehiclekeys:client:SetOwner or qb-vehiclekeys:client:AddKeys, and that any exports['qb-vehiclekeys'] call now says qs-vehiclekeys.

Either the job script gives a key when it spawns the vehicle, or list the models in Config.NoLockVehicles so they never need one.

Config.Hotwire.Enabled is false, or a script called disableHotwire(true) for that player. With hotwiring off, a key is no longer needed to drive. If it is only some models, they are in a Whitelist or in NoLockVehicles — exempt on purpose.

Target player is too far away — stand within 8 m. Target already has this vehicle key — they hold it already. And yes, the giver keeps their own key: a transfer hands over a copy.

/givekeys is for admins. Players share keys through F7, the key transfer menu.

It removes every key for a car the player does not own in the database — job vehicles and friends' cars included. On a standalone server that is every key. Switch it off with Config.CleanKeys.Enabled = false.

A garage or job gives keys with bypassKeyCheck = true every time it spawns a car. Pass false and a player who already holds the key is skipped.

That action has RequirePolice on and MinimumPolice above the number of online players whose job is in Config.PoliceJobs. Robbing NPC drivers asks for two by default. Check the job names, and that they are written as police = true — a plain list counts nobody.

Hotwiring is off, the model is exempt, or the player already has access — a key, the master key or ownership. Only the driver's seat shows the prompt.

Stealing keys needs a gun drawn and aimed at an NPC who is driving — not a passenger, not a parked car, not a player — within MaxDistance.

Each car's driver can be robbed once per session, so a player cannot farm the same car.

The item in your inventory has a different name from Config.Lockpick.Item or AdvancedItem. Note that /lockpick always uses the standard one — use the advanced item from the inventory.

Lockpicks only work on locked cars. Try the door first.

Correct behaviour: a lockpick opens doors, nothing more. Hotwire the car, or set Config.Lockpick.GiveKeyOnSuccess = true.

The plate item has no plate number — it was given with a command. Buy plates at the copy shop, which numbers each one. On ox_inventory any plate is numbered automatically when it is created.

An owned car already wears that plate. Use another plate item.

Config.Plate.RequireOwnedVehicle is on and the car is not in the owned-vehicle table. Swaps on cars nobody owns need that setting off.

The car is stored in a garage, or too far away for the player's game to have loaded it. The tracker can only point at cars that are out and in range.

Removal needs ox_target and Config.Tracker.UseTarget, and the option only shows on cars in the player's own tracker list — ones they fitted, or hold a key to.

/tracker needs the receiver, vehicletracker, in the inventory.

Payment comes from the account in Config.CopyShop.Account — money on ESX, cash on QBCore — not the bank. On a standalone server every priced service is refused; set the prices to 0.

Both copy services need the original key in your inventory. For the nearby copy, the car must also be parked right beside you — within InteractDistance, 2 m by default.

The player's job is not in Config.Diagnostic.AllowedJobs (or AllowedTintJobs for the tint meter). An empty table lets everyone use it.

interact-sound is not running, or carkeys.ogg is not in its sounds folder. Check Config.Sounds too — see Integrations.

The player is not an admin by your framework's rule. Installation → Admin Access lists who counts on ESX, QBCore and standalone.

On standalone there is no owned-vehicle table to read. On ESX and QBCore, the list comes from owned_vehicles or player_vehicles — if your garage stores cars elsewhere, adapt the queries in custom/<framework>/server.lua.

Give Owner Key needs the owner on the server. Take the key with Give Self Key and hand it over later, or wait for them to join.

Go To Vehicle can only reach a car your game has loaded. Cars in a garage, or far across the map, are out of its reach.