New car tuning problems

When you download a car, quite often when you install an air intake or a spoiler on it, the game crashes. I will explain to you how to get rid of this problem, and at the same time I will show you how to make a pumpable car. I wrote the article myself, I did not tear it out from any site. This problem is due to the car model. I am unfamiliar with the intricacies of their creation, but it seems to be difficult to make a car pumpable. So to install a spoiler, air intake, body kit, etc. the model needs to be redone. But isn't it better to just not tune the car? And so that you do not accidentally fly out of the game, I will explain how to leave only what is installed on the car in the tuning menu.

So. You discovered that the exhaust pipe and new headlights are not put on the car.

To remove the muffler and lights item from the pumping menu, you need to:
1. Go to the folder with the game.
2. Go to the Data folder.
3. Find the Carmods.DAT file in it and open it with notepad. (Right-click on it and select open with and select notepad. Or go to notepad by clicking the Start button, click the file button at the top - open - indicate where Carmods.DAT is located.)
You see what is shown in the screenshot below. We do not need what is indicated in red. You need what is indicated in blue.

As you can see, the name of the model is written first, then the spare parts that are installed on this model.

So, my Niva replaces Landstalker. We are looking for Landstalker in the list. It's pretty easy, everything is in alphabetical order.

Here it is worth explaining what these incomprehensible lines mean.
nto_b_l, nto_b_s, nto_b_tw is painting, hydraulics, stereo, wheels. It installs on any machine.
exh are silencers
lgt are lights
spl is a spoiler
bnt — these are the air intakes on the hood
bntl is the ventilation on the hood.
rf is the air intake on the roof
wg are side skirts
fbmp - these are bumpers (installed on lowrider cars and cars pumped only in the San Fierro garage)
As you can see, my Landstal has
exh_b_l, exh_b_m, exh_b_t, exh_b_ts, lgt_b_rspt, lgt_b_sspt, nto_b_l, nto_b_s, nto_b_tw
So 4 mufflers, 2 lights, colors, hydraulics, wheels, stereo.
We need to remove silencers and lights, so we remove exh_b_l, exh_b_m, exh_b_t, exh_b_ts, lgt_b_rspt, lgt_b_sspt
And we are left with nto_b_l, nto_b_s, nto_b_tw.

Be careful not to have extra commas in the string. There shouldn't be any dots. And so, we close the notepad, click save changes, go into the game.

As you can see, the silencers and lights have disappeared.

Now about how to make the car pumpable.
For example, a taxi. We go into Carmods, look for models that begin with the letter T (I remind you that everything is alphabetical in the file) and write Taxi nto_b_l, nto_b_s, nto_b_tw.
Same:
Monster nto_b_l, nto_b_s, nto_b_tw,
Police_LA nto_b_l, nto_b_s, nto_b_tw
etc.
True, there are cars that will not be pumped in any way. So it's best not to bother with it. As soon as I find a mod that makes all cars pumpable, I'll post it on this site.

Well, I hope this article helped you understand the Carmods. If you want, I can also analyze other files in detail.