| Services | Five: respray, machine guns, mines, oil slicks and a vehicle bomb |
|---|---|
| Cheapest | $5,000, for Max Paynt and Red Army Surplus |
| Mines | Gold Mines is not available in the Downtown District |
| Needed for 100% | Nothing, though visiting every garage once is on the extra list |
Garages in GTA 2 are drive-through shops that repair your car, clear your wanted level or fit it with a weapon, each for a fee. Claude drives in at the front, pays, and drives out the back. The most useful is Max Paynt, which fixes the car and wipes your wanted level for $5,000. The others add machine guns, mines, oil slicks or a bomb to your vehicle.
The five services
| Garage | Cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Max Paynt | $5,000 | Repairs the car and clears your wanted level. |
 Smith and Heston’s | $25,000 | Fits vehicle machine guns. |
 Gold Mines | $50,000 | Fits 10 vehicle mines that drop behind the car. Residential and Industrial Districts only. |
 Hell Oil | $10,000 | Fits 10 rounds of oil slick to dump behind the car. |
 Red Army Surplus | $5,000 | Arms the car with a time-delayed bomb, set off with the fire button. |
The weapons page describes how each vehicle weapon behaves once fitted.
Max Paynt
This is the garage you will use most. When you leave, your wanted level is gone and the car is repaired and painted. Garages near a gang’s turf paint the car in that gang’s color, and the rest use ordinary colors. If your car is already the color a garage would paint it, the car keeps its color and a message says the plates have been changed instead.
Government vehicles and gang cars cannot be resprayed, though buses can, and taxis only get new plates.
Weapon garages
Smith and Heston’s, Gold Mines, Hell Oil and Red Army Surplus all fit a weapon you then use from the driver’s seat with the fire button. The machine guns and mines are good for missions that ask you to destroy vehicles, the oil slick is for shaking a chase, and the bomb is for jobs where a vehicle has to blow up. Pick the garage that matches the job, because each one charges again every time you use it.
Where the garages are
Each district has a chain of garages built into a few suburbs. Look for the garage doors on the map, and note that the Residential and Industrial Districts have a 5-in-1 garage with Gold Mines.
| District | Suburbs with a garage |
|---|---|
 Downtown | Flotsam (two garages), Fruitbat, Funabashi, Shiroto, Zarelli |
 Residential | Belmont, Cayman, Largo, Xenoton |
 Industrial | Escobar, Lubyanka, Tabernacle, Tedium |
The Residential garages are the ones you pass most often on the way between the Residential District missions. When the police are close, drive to the nearest one, and see wanted level for the other ways to lose them.