Trailers Will Not Hook Up To Truck. Fix?

16BitShooter · 2018-06-17T12:23:13.045Z

I recently put some trailers on my server so we could transport vehicles more efficiently. I originally spotted these trailers on San Andreas Roleplay and just had to have them! Upon spawning them in and attempting to “hook up” to the trailer nothing happens. I reverse a truck towards the hitch and the camera moves positions but the trailer itself does not move in any way. Yes, I’ve looked at other topics and found nothing to fix my issue. I know there is a fix because these trailers work fine on SARP. As far as I know these are supposed to already work with the default GTA 5 Trucks, and that’s what I used.
Any and all help is very much appreciated!
NOTE: If you reply please dumb it down for me, If it’s something in a vehicle meta please be specific. Thanks!

Also, the Second one used to work in my server a while ago. I tried installing older versions to get it working but that did not help either.
Trailers Used;

GTA5-Mods.com

Enclosed Race Car Trailer [Add-On]

This is a trialer created by me and CodeDesigns, they are a few issues that we are going to update in the future such as the textures and other small things I will be carrying on development of this trailer now, more udpates to come! Enjoy! ...

GTA5-Mods.com

Car Trailer [Add-On]

My 76th Mod Do not edit it without permission Sadly i cannot get the ramps that are meant to be on the trailer working at the moment but i shall keep trying till i do get them working :). INSTALLATION Add-On 1.Drop cartrailer folder to...

There was another but I can’t find the link!

16BitShooter · 2018-09-09T04:03:11.054Z

I’ve found the fix on my own. For anyone who finds this helpful I’m going to leave the fix here
1st You’re going to need notepad++
2nd find the vehicle.meta of the truck you want to tow with.
3rd Find the following code in that meta (not every truck will have the exact same trailers added)
<trailers>
<Item>boattrailer</Item>
<Item>trailersmall</Item>
</trailers>
<additionalTrailers>
<Item>trailersmall2</Item>
</additionalTrailers>
4th Take <Item></Item> and add it between either trailers or additionaltrailers.
5th Add the spawn name of the trailer you want to use, for example <Item>ctrailer</Item>
6th Save the meta and either restart your server or restart the vehicle resource.

Admin or whoever please close this if you want.

orion13622 · 2019-05-23T05:27:10.225Z

16BitShooter:

<trailers>
<Item>boattrailer</Item>
<Item>trailersmall</Item>
</trailers>
<additionalTrailers>
<Item>trailersmall2</Item>
</additionalTrailers>

Thank you so much for this. It’s great seeing people like you help new folks like me out in the community!

Reaper2388 · 2019-11-03T06:16:41.768Z

this did not work for me

16BitShooter · 2019-11-26T22:52:52.051Z

The vehicle probably doesn’t have anything (A hitch) to attach to if this isn’t working for you.

MaddDogg04 · 2020-04-09T00:15:05.228Z

Ok, i know how to do this for vehicles that ive added to the server, but i cant for the life of me find the data files for the default vehicles including the semis.

Can you perhaps point me to where the vehicle data files are stored for the default local cars?

16BitShooter · 2020-04-10T07:54:24.567Z

Use OpenIV to extract a copy
common.rpf/data/levels/gta5/vehicles.meta

TheSmallTheo13 · 2021-08-01T00:21:05.076Z

And how can we do for the vehicles that are replaced since there is no vehicles.meta ?

TheScrantonStangler · 2021-11-14T21:38:36.463Z

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Miller_Inc · 2021-12-19T13:39:11.325Z

My trailer will hook but it won’t move any ideas

David-s · 2022-05-05T00:28:14.382Z

type it in the truck you want to pull the trailer with

<Item>bigtexb</Item>

so it’ll look something like this
you would go into the vehicles.meta folder for the truck you would like to pull the trailer with and type the trailer in the middle between

example

let me know if this helped!

David-s · 2022-05-05T00:29:31.853Z

type it in the truck you want to pull the trailer with

<Item>bigtexb</Item>

so it’ll look something like this
you would go into the vehicles.meta folder for the truck you would like to pull the trailer with and type the trailer in the middle between EXAMPLETRAILER
let me know if this helped!

David-s:

type it in the truck you want to pull the trailer with
<Item>bigtexb</Item>
so it’ll look something like this
you would go into the vehicles.meta folder for the truck you would like to pull the trailer with and type the trailer in the middle between EXAMPLETRAILER
let me know if this helped!

XCMysticFury · 2023-07-06T07:27:56.812Z

hey so, i have the trailer listed in the vehicle, but once its connected the vehicle just spins tires and the trailer fails to move

David-s · 2023-07-06T13:49:28.780Z

Add me on discord and I can possibly help further .kossori

TruckMe · 2024-12-10T11:05:56.374Z

Are you still able to provide help with this at all?

I have found that this works fine when adding trailers to any addon on vehicle, but you cannot make changes to a vanilla vehicles.meta and see the changes reflect in game.
Changes will only work on add on vehicles.meta.