3285550153 “Don't worry boss! I'll be there in a heartbeat!” —The Mechanic talking to the GTA Online Protagonist.
The Mechanic is a supporting character in Grand Theft Auto Online. The mechanic repairs the online player's vehicles and delivers the vehicles to them when requested.
Contents
1History
1.1Background
2Character
2.1Function
2.2Appearance
2.3Behavior
3Gallery
4See Also
5Navigation
History[]
Background[]
The mechanic is a man hired by the player upon their first purchase of a garage or a house or apartment that has one. The mechanic's purpose is to repair any vehicles that the player drives in to the garage.
Character[]
Function[]
Once employed, the mechanic appears in the player's phone contacts with a picture depicting the Los Santos Customs logo, indicating that is where he works.
The player can call the mechanic to deliver any Personal Vehicles to the player's current location, as long as they are near a road. The mechanic must be paid $10 ($50 prior to The Contract) per day per owned property with a garage to keep him employed. If the player has insufficient cash or Maze Bank funds the mechanic will suspend his services until he can be paid.
In the Enhanced Version there is a cool-down of two minutes between deliveries and the mechanic will not deliver a different vehicle if the player already has one nearby (approx 200 yard limit). The cool-down was reduced from five minutes to two minutes in the GTA Online: Arena War update but remained at five minutes in the original PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions until their access was removed on December 16th, 2021.
If a garage contains vehicles in storage (i.e. after a player trades down from a larger garage), the mechanic is the only way to retrieve the stored vehicles.
The mechanic will not deliver during certain Jobs in GTA Online such as Survivals and several Heists. The mechanic will not answer the player's call and states that he is "otherwise occupied".
He originally would not deliver bicycles, until this ability was added in the Los Santos Drug Wars update.
There are "road" paths in the LS Storm Drain so if the player calls the mechanic to deliver a vehicle while there, he will drop off the vehicle in the water.
The mechanic will often be unable to deliver vehicles, either because the player is in an inaccessible location or due to AI code bugs.
He had a tendency to crash or otherwise damage the player's vehicles while delivering them.
He tended to drive away when there was a fight going on.
Sometimes, the mechanic would go past the player and drive off with the vehicle, requiring them to kill the mechanic in some way or chase after him in order to retrieve the vehicle.
Due to the bugs with the delivery function, as of Title Update 1.10, the mechanic no longer delivers the player's vehicle in person, instead, after the update, if the player asks for a vehicle to be delivered, it will spawn outside the player's field of view after a few seconds.
A glitch may still occur after patch 1.10 where if the player calls the mechanic after their personal vehicle has been destroyed, the wrecked vehicle will spawn instead of the requested one.
If facing the nearest road and a large-enough NPC vehicle were to pass by at the moment of delivery, it's possible for the personal vehicle to spawn behind that vehicle as that space was momentarily out of the player's field of view, creating an interesting 'slight of hand' effect.
Appearance[]
After speaking with the mechanic the dialogue tab shows a unique contact picture showing his true appearance which is also used for the mechanic in a 10 car garage in the opening GTA Online cutscene. This is a common pedestrian "mechanic" NPC model available in Director Mode as Laborers>LS Customs.
The character model actually used in-game may be a random NPC model but the mechanic always wears a grey shirt and black shorts. Between Patch 1.10 and 1.57, the mechanic was an unseen character in GTA Online.
Despite each one having different physical appearances, every mechanic has the same voice.
NPC mechanics in identical uniforms can be found in Grand Theft Auto V, though the player cannot interact with them. The shirt is monogrammed with the generic name J.Jones Mechanic.
In the GTA Online: Los Santos Tuners update, the character physically returns in the opening cutscene of the LS Car Meet and he can regularly be found attending the meet with his modified Futo with a custom plate ONDASPOT.
Behavior[]
Even though the mechanic is employed by the player, he would act in a hostile manner if bumped or pulled from a vehicle by them, as if he were a random pedestrian.
The player could kill the mechanic when arriving with a vehicle, and loot his dropped cash, but he would always be available afterwards.
Gallery[]
Opening GTA Online cutscene showing a mechanic in a 10-car garage.Opening GTA Online cutscene showing a mechanic in a 10-car garage.Original model unused as the mechanic (back view)Dialogue photo (matching the opening cutscene model).Character model actually used in game.Mechanicafter delivering a vehicle.Mechanic NPCs spawning in GTA V.Mechanic in 2021 in the LS Car Meet introduction cutscene.Attending the meet.Garage Mechanic's ONDASPOT Futo.
See Also[]
Navigation[]
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Charlie Reed | Viktor Sokolov | Rooster McCraw | Paige Harris | Unnamed heist crew member (heavy weapons supply drop) | Unnamed heist crew member (weapon stash)
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Main characters
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Even the Score Mixtape
Hosts
DāM-FunK
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Snoop Dogg | Franklin Clinton | Lamar Davis
Bottom Dollar Bounties
Main characters
Jenette Eccles | Maude Eccles | Vincent Effenburger | Martin Madrazo
American 
Dialogue photo (matching the opening cutscene model).
Character model actually used in game.
Mechanicafter delivering a vehicle.
Mechanic NPCs spawning in GTA V.
Attending the meet.
Garage Mechanic's ONDASPOT Futo.