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FWB Vehicle Keys — Common Errors & FAQ ​

❓ Q: /fwb_vehiclekeys shows a "permission" screen instead of the admin panel ​

Cause

Your account does not have the fwb_vehiclekeys.admin ACE.

Solution

  1. Copy the line the screen shows (it already contains your license).
  2. Paste it into server.cfg, or give your admin group access:
    lua
    add_ace group.admin fwb_vehiclekeys.admin allow
  3. Restart the server.

❓ Q: The Overview says keys can't be items / the key item has no plate ​

Cause

Your inventory can't keep data on an item (for example the ESX default inventory), or it starts after fwb_vehiclekeys.

Solution

  1. ensure your inventory before fwb_vehiclekeys.
  2. Use an inventory that keeps item data (ox_inventory, qb / ps / lj-inventory, qs-inventory, codem-inventory), or set Settings → General → Keys are to Saved keys.

❓ Q: Players can't drive the car they take out of their garage ​

Cause

The garage still calls the key script you removed, or no key script at all.

Solution

Set the garage's key option to "none" / custom and call exports.fwb_vehiclekeys:GiveKeys(vehicle) when the car comes out. See Integrations → Garages & Dealerships.

Cars the player owns (in your framework's owned-vehicles table) always work for them, with or without a key item. For cars that are not owned (rentals, job cars), give the key from the server with GiveKeys(src, plate); it can be called before the car spawns.

❓ Q: Storing a car in the garage doesn't remove the key item ​

This is how it works

The key item is a real, permanent key. A garage only gives and takes a session key; the owner's key item stays in the inventory and fits the car again next time. A lost or stolen key is fixed at the locksmith with Change the locks.

❓ Q: "[H] Hotwire [J] Search" shows while looking at a car in a showroom ​

Solution

Cars made only in one player's game (CreateVehicle(..., false, false)) are ignored automatically. If your showroom spawns networked cars, call exports.fwb_vehiclekeys:IgnoreVehicle(vehicle, true) on that player's client.

❓ Q: Using a lockpick, tracker, detector or pliers does nothing ​

Solution

  1. Check the item exists in your inventory with the same name as in the panel (Car theft → Lockpicks, Settings → Trackers).
  2. Lockpick: stand at a locked car's door. Detector and pliers: stand next to the car.
  3. Settings → Police → Police needed on duty: lockpicking and hotwiring only work when enough police are on duty.

❓ Q: Police get no alerts ​

Solution

  1. Check the police jobs in Settings → Police (a whole job like police, or one rank like sheriff:2). The default is police and sheriff.
  2. The officer must be on duty in your framework (ESX: /job shows it).
  3. Check the alert chances there (0% = never). A carjacking alerts 70% of the time by default.
  4. Pick your dispatch script on the Bridges page, or leave it on auto. The built-in alert shows a POLICE ALERT card and a map blip to on-duty police.

❓ Q: A stolen or spare key stopped working ​

This is how it works

The owner changed the locks: every older key of that car stops working. The player is told "The owner already changed the locks on this car". If you set a time in Settings → General → Stolen keys work for, a stolen key also stops after that time.

❓ Q: A tracker says "NO SIGNAL" ​

This is how it works

The car is not in the world: stored in a garage, deleted, or gone after a restart. The blip stays, grey, where it was last seen. The tracker picks the car up again as soon as it is back out.

❓ Q: The console says owned_vehicles (or player_vehicles) has no index ​

Solution

Every key check looks a car up by plate, and the key ring lists a player's cars by owner. Without an index, each lookup reads the whole table, which is slow on a big database. Run the line the console prints once, for example:

sql
ALTER TABLE `owned_vehicles` ADD INDEX `owner` (`owner`);

Stock QBCore and Qbox tables already have both indexes; stock ESX has the plate one only.

❓ Q: An action says "You cannot do that right now" ​

Solution

A hook stopped it: in bridge/hooks/server.lua or in another resource that called registerHook. Set print = true in that resource's registerHook options to see which one runs. See Hooks & Events.

❓ Q: I need console prints to find a problem ​

Solution

Turn on Debug messages in Settings → General. Leave it off on a live server.

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