How To Change Vehicle Handling (FiveM)

Tip: keep all handling changes in a separate resource

Tip: keep all handling changes in a separate resource handling_tuning/ so you can disable it quickly if something breaks.

Method 1: Edit handling.meta (permanent)

Where to find it

• Addon vehicles usually ship with data/handling.meta.
• If not, create one and reference it in fxmanifest.lua.

Resource structure example

resources/ handling_tuning/ fxmanifest.lua data/ handling.meta

      vehicles.meta   (only if you need to bind new handlingId)
      carvariations.meta (optional)

Minimal fxmanifest.lua

fx_version 'cerulean'

game 'gta5'

files {
  'data/handling.meta',
  'data/vehicles.meta'
}

-- Tell the game what each file is

data_file 'HANDLING_FILE' 'data/handling.meta' data_file 'VEHICLE_METADATA_FILE' 'data/vehicles.meta'

Example handling.meta entry (car)

<HandlingData>
  <Item type="CHandlingData">
    <handlingName>MY_TUNED_SULTAN</handlingName>
    <fMass value="1400.0"/>
    <fInitialDragCoeff value="8.0"/>
    <fPercentSubmerged value="85.0"/>

    <fInitialDriveForce value="0.31"/>
    <fDriveInertia value="1.0"/>
    <fClutchChangeRateScaleUpShift value="2.5"/>
    <fClutchChangeRateScaleDownShift value="2.0"/>
    <fInitialDriveMaxFlatVel value="190.0"/>

    <fBrakeForce value="1.0"/>
    <fBrakeBiasFront value="0.55"/>
    <fHandBrakeForce value="0.65"/>

    <fSteeringLock value="40.0"/>

    <fTractionCurveMax value="2.4"/>
    <fTractionCurveMin value="2.1"/>
    <fTractionCurveLateral value="22.0"/>
    <fTractionSpringDeltaMax value="0.14"/>
    <fLowSpeedTractionLossMult value="0.6"/>

    <fSuspensionForce value="2.0"/>
    <fSuspensionCompDamp value="1.5"/>
    <fSuspensionReboundDamp value="2.0"/>
    <fSuspensionUpperLimit value="0.08"/>
    <fSuspensionLowerLimit value="-0.10"/>
    <fSuspensionRaise value="0.00"/>
    <fAntiRollBarForce value="0.7"/>

    <fRollCentreHeightFront value="0.32"/>
    <fRollCentreHeightRear value="0.33"/>

    <strModelFlags>440010</strModelFlags>
    <strHandlingFlags>0</strHandlingFlags>
  </Item>
</HandlingData>

Bind the handling to a vehicle

If you introduced a new <handlingName>, point your vehicle at it in vehicles.meta:

<CVehicleModelInfo__InitDataList>
  <Item>
    <modelName>sultan</modelName>
    <handlingId>MY_TUNED_SULTAN</handlingId>
  </Item>
</CVehicleModelInfo__InitDataList>

Common tuning goals

| Goal | Change these values | Notes | Faster acceleration | |