# Getting a car...and survivour squads scavenging?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [September 20, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405 "2014-09-20T17:57:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![anon5075822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon5075822](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/anon5075822)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/1 "2014-09-20T17:57:37Z")

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its been my second month my guys a bionic and has a tail…My biggest trouble now is getting a car…Any help…Every car i find i put gas and it it says the engine no work…Thi is the 7th car and im getting pissed. Any help?

Also it would be cool if you could recruit survivours and send them to your base or whatever and get them to find stuff like food etc…

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/2 "2014-09-20T18:01:49Z")

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Make sure the car battery has power first.

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**Author:** ![anon5075822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@anon5075822](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/anon5075822)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/3 "2014-09-20T18:14:13Z")

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…how do you check…

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/4 "2014-09-20T18:17:17Z")

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The yellow bar when you examine the car.

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**Author:** ![Nemonole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nemonole](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nemonole)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/5 "2014-09-21T01:17:36Z")

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you’ll only need ~100 or so

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/6 "2014-09-21T19:08:03Z")

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That said only the rare car is still going to be working and have gas in Cata. Most cars will take at least a little bit of work for you to get up and running well enough to use.

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**Author:** ![Arek\_PL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arek\_PL](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arek_PL)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/getting-a-car-and-survivour-squads-scavenging/7405/7 "2014-09-21T19:38:32Z")

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> [@i2amroy](#):
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> That said only the rare car is still going to be working and have gas in Cata. Most cars will take at least a little bit of work for you to get up and running well enough to use.

military truck is working too just destroy metal doors