GTA Online Players Keep Accidentally Deleting Cars With Misleading Command

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GTA Online players are given plenty of opportunities to collect a wide variety of vehicles, ranging from bikes and cars to choppers and fighter jets. These vehicles can be stored in GTA Online's garages and hangars, but space isn't limitless, and this is where problems can begin.

GTA Online players have been discussing a problem with the game's interface and options that often result in the loss of one of these valuable vehicles. The problem has been around for years, but unfortunately, it keeps making cars disappear, and leaves players with very little recourse.

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The GTA Online problem in question occurs when players purchase or otherwise acquire a new vehicle that needs to be stored. When the option to store a vehicle appears, players can choose between their various garages. However, if the game tries to store a vehicle in a garage and there's no space for it, a message pops up, prompting the player to 'replace' a vehicle with the new one, or the player can put the new car in a different garage that has open slots available.

Unfortunately, the wording of 'replacing' a car here makes many players believe that they're basically swapping the cars. Players on Reddit discussed how they expected their existing car to be moved to a new garage, or to simply be dropped off near the player so that they could move it to a new location themselves. However, neither possibility is the reality; instead, whichever car is selected is completely deleted from the player's account.

Accidentally deleting a vehicle is a huge problem for players. Buying a new vehicle in the GTA Online can cost millions of in-game GTA$, meaning players would have to spend a ton of time grinding to earn