Borrowed Wheels – Grand Chien Vehicle Directory

Grand Chien is beautiful, if you ignore the bullets, potholes and suspiciously ownerless vehicles.

Borrowed Wheels adds a tactical vehicle system to Jagged Alliance 3: recover, repair, park, buy and drive vehicles on tactical maps. They are not clean. They are not safe. They are probably not yours. But they move.

This mod is still in beta. Please expect odd behavior and report repeatable bugs.
Current build: V2.32-336, shortened workshop description after the trunk conversion.

• Buy one on the Borrowed Wheels website. Visit the Black Market, buy an offer, then recover the parked vehicle in its delivery sector.
• Recover one in the field. A merc with Car Mechanic or Car Mechanic Specialization can mark, repair and recover compatible vehicles through Sector Operations.
• One active vehicle per squad. A squad that already has a working vehicle cannot recover another one.

• Drivable tactical vehicles with custom handling, seats, movement speed, damage profiles and steering behavior.
• Driver and passenger support, including visual passenger attachment, group entry/exit and vehicle-specific seating data.
• Strategic travel reduction for squads using a vehicle.
• Persistent vehicle trunks. Cargo is now stored in the vehicle, not in the Driver’s inventory.
• Vehicle Combat Actions: drive, honk, toggle headlights, park/recover, move nearby, unstuck, repair and open trunk.
• Vehicle damage, repairs, crew cleanup and destruction handling.
• Borrowed Wheels in-game PDA website with vehicle pages, rumors, roadside notes and Black Market offers.
• Black Market offers with vehicle type, price, delivery sector, contact flavor, color and condition.

• Each vehicle has its own persistent trunk inventory.
• The trunk follows the vehicle across sectors, parked state, recovery and save/load.
• Open Vehicle Trunk is available near the vehicle.
• If a vehicle is destroyed, its trunk contents are dumped into the sector.

• UAZ
• Pickup Truck
• Minivan
• Luxury Car
• Old Luxury Car
• Camp Truck
• Sturdy Camp Truck
• GMC Vandura (available via addon)

The recommended example for adding a new vehicle is the GMC Vandura addon. It registers an additional vehicle into Borrowed Wheels without editing core files.

A good addon should stay declarative: provide the vehicle entity, driving item, seats, offsets, exits, tactical movement values, travel values, trunk slots / legacy inventory_bonus value, damage profile, steering, sounds, Black Market data and optional fixed recoverable sector vehicles. Borrowed Wheels core handles the trunk, parking, passengers, tactical spawn, headlights and shared vehicle systems.

Borrowed Wheels is built for tactical fun, not real-world insurance compliance. Vehicles in Grand Chien are loud, ugly, dangerous and occasionally haunted by pathfinding.

Expect fixes, tuning and new bad ideas over time.

• Buy Grim a coffee on Ko-fi[ko-fi.com]
• Contribute to Grim’s real-life vehicle repairs on PayPal[www.paypal.com]

Thanks to permanent666 for the in-game website framework.
Thanks to BajaResident for the original drivable vehicle concept, vehicle icons and constant support.
Thanks to Svetlio for JA3_CommonLib and animation-locking work.
Thanks to Silencer / cockadoodledoo, Jäger Allianz and the JA3 modding community.

Drive carefully.
Or don’t.

– Grim