Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Welcome to another video on this guide. I'll be using the Toyz as an example for the AP (All-Proof) Conversion, so after the procedure, your desired vehicle will be immune all sorts of damage. This conversion is featured in the final mission "The Exchange" with a required mission fail and can be repeated multiple times. Only the PC version can use the replay feature, all other versions won't work. The feature never returned on PC Definitive Edition either.
First preparation is to save a replay outside the cartel mansion where the start of the mission takes place, whilst Claude being on foot. Use F2 to save a replay and use F3 to view the saved replay. You want to avoid replays with Claude driving around, so save replays until you successfully have Claude on foot.
When you have failed attempts, you have to close the game and open it back up and start another attempt. Reloading the save file just won't allow you to do another attempt when getting to the method that uses the replay. I can't explain the reason behind this, but the method doesn't work when you want to attempt again with a reload, only a complete reboot.
Once the prep is done and a fresh attempt is ready, load the save file and use F1 to view whatever the last few seconds of the replay is, really doesn't matter, then use F1 again and get into the desired vehicle and drive to the mission location. Using F1 just after loading will refresh the vehicle slot cache and allow this conversion to work. I also recommend using this conversion on a garage with only one vehicle taking up space, that way it can take fewer attempts, since this conversion requires the vehicle to be stored in "slot 1" of said garage. If you have four vehicles in one garage, the garage will have slots 1-4 used up, and for this conversion, you don't know whether or not the desired vehicle is using slot 1 or the others that won't help with the conversion. Much easier to convert when there's only one vehicle in the garage. Using traffic vehicles for the conversion can be hit or miss.
Park your vehicle outside the mansion in a similar fashion as I did, just in case the game has cleanups near the mission marker when started. Start it and get into the nearby cartel cruiser after the cutscene and leave the property and once you pass the gate, spam F1, F3, F1, F3 repeatedly until you successfully have the cutscene panning to your desired vehicle. Catalina's chopper cannot be in the cutscene or any traffic vehicle that accidentally gets converted to AP. With each failed attempt, close the game and relaunch it the long way instead of reloading the save file. A successful attempt will place a red corona onto your desired vehicle. Take that vehicle to a garage and once stored, use F1 to refresh the vehicle slot cache once more. I didn't refresh it once more in this attempt, but I still succeed, so I'm not sure if it's required.
The game will crash when the timer hits zero because there is no target once you store your vehicle, due to no vehicle around with the corona. This will be prevented by using F1 or F3 which at random will place a corona onto a vehicle in traffic, which will be close by and likely in your view. If you have trouble with this, I show a good road to attempt this since traffic flow will move towards you, not away. It's located next to Kenji's Casino. Once you have a traffic vehicle with a corona placed on it, let mission timer expire, but make sure you aren't inside it, since it will be deleted by the game, otherwise Claude will be deleted too and considered dead by the game and you respawn at the hospital. Keep an eye on the vehicle to prevent the corona from disappearing.
This conversion will work on any vehicle that can be saved inside a garage. Vehicles such as the Linerunner, Yankee, Trashmaster, Dodo and Rhino will be stored in Staunton due to the size. Convert vehicles that aren't already available as AP, since the AP Cheetah and AP Bobcat are obtainable with mission passes.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Using F1 to refresh the vehicle slot cache
0:28 - Taking desired vehicle to The Exchange mission location
1:23 - Start of The Exchange, leaving property with cartel cruiser then spamming F1, F3, F1, F3 repeatedly
1:47 - Successfully getting red corona on Toyz
2:00 - Taking the Toyz to Shoreside Vale garage
3:03 - Going to Staunton and manipulating traffic to attach red corona on a random vehicle, using F1 or F3
4:45 - Successfully attaching corona to a traffic vehicle
5:26 - Showing a one-way road where final step may be achieved
5:53 - Going to Shoreside Vale and letting the mission timer expire
8:55 - Showing AP properties
10:20 - End of Video
Here are some great channels that feature Special Vehicles:
M E Z: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCc7cK0sT6TKK6cMPMca2I4A
Lethal Vaccine: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCb0tcFQvy930F6Jy-FPAXYA
Jam8tone: https://m.youtube.com/user/jam8tone
Vanhela: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCFl_4AEy77YiPQPU3TdUSLw
Welcome to another video on this guide. I'll be using the Toyz as an example for the AP (All-Proof) Conversion, so after the procedure, your desired vehicle will be immune all sorts of damage. This conversion is featured in the final mission "The Exchange" with a required mission fail and can be repeated multiple times. Only the PC version can use the replay feature, all other versions won't work. The feature never returned on PC Definitive Edition either.
First preparation is to save a replay outside the cartel mansion where the start of the mission takes place, whilst Claude being on foot. Use F2 to save a replay and use F3 to view the saved replay. You want to avoid replays with Claude driving around, so save replays until you successfully have Claude on foot.
When you have failed attempts, you have to close the game and open it back up and start another attempt. Reloading the save file just won't allow you to do another attempt when getting to the method that uses the replay. I can't explain the reason behind this, but the method doesn't work when you want to attempt again with a reload, only a complete reboot.
Once the prep is done and a fresh attempt is ready, load the save file and use F1 to view whatever the last few seconds of the replay is, really doesn't matter, then use F1 again and get into the desired vehicle and drive to the mission location. Using F1 just after loading will refresh the vehicle slot cache and allow this conversion to work. I also recommend using this conversion on a garage with only one vehicle taking up space, that way it can take fewer attempts, since this conversion requires the vehicle to be stored in "slot 1" of said garage. If you have four vehicles in one garage, the garage will have slots 1-4 used up, and for this conversion, you don't know whether or not the desired vehicle is using slot 1 or the others that won't help with the conversion. Much easier to convert when there's only one vehicle in the garage. Using traffic vehicles for the conversion can be hit or miss.
Park your vehicle outside the mansion in a similar fashion as I did, just in case the game has cleanups near the mission marker when started. Start it and get into the nearby cartel cruiser after the cutscene and leave the property and once you pass the gate, spam F1, F3, F1, F3 repeatedly until you successfully have the cutscene panning to your desired vehicle. Catalina's chopper cannot be in the cutscene or any traffic vehicle that accidentally gets converted to AP. With each failed attempt, close the game and relaunch it the long way instead of reloading the save file. A successful attempt will place a red corona onto your desired vehicle. Take that vehicle to a garage and once stored, use F1 to refresh the vehicle slot cache once more. I didn't refresh it once more in this attempt, but I still succeed, so I'm not sure if it's required.
The game will crash when the timer hits zero because there is no target once you store your vehicle, due to no vehicle around with the corona. This will be prevented by using F1 or F3 which at random will place a corona onto a vehicle in traffic, which will be close by and likely in your view. If you have trouble with this, I show a good road to attempt this since traffic flow will move towards you, not away. It's located next to Kenji's Casino. Once you have a traffic vehicle with a corona placed on it, let mission timer expire, but make sure you aren't inside it, since it will be deleted by the game, otherwise Claude will be deleted too and considered dead by the game and you respawn at the hospital. Keep an eye on the vehicle to prevent the corona from disappearing.
This conversion will work on any vehicle that can be saved inside a garage. Vehicles such as the Linerunner, Yankee, Trashmaster, Dodo and Rhino will be stored in Staunton due to the size. Convert vehicles that aren't already available as AP, since the AP Cheetah and AP Bobcat are obtainable with mission passes.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Using F1 to refresh the vehicle slot cache
0:28 - Taking desired vehicle to The Exchange mission location
1:23 - Start of The Exchange, leaving property with cartel cruiser then spamming F1, F3, F1, F3 repeatedly
1:47 - Successfully getting red corona on Toyz
2:00 - Taking the Toyz to Shoreside Vale garage
3:03 - Going to Staunton and manipulating traffic to attach red corona on a random vehicle, using F1 or F3
4:45 - Successfully attaching corona to a traffic vehicle
5:26 - Showing a one-way road where final step may be achieved
5:53 - Going to Shoreside Vale and letting the mission timer expire
8:55 - Showing AP properties
10:20 - End of Video
Here are some great channels that feature Special Vehicles:
M E Z: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCc7cK0sT6TKK6cMPMca2I4A
Lethal Vaccine: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCb0tcFQvy930F6Jy-FPAXYA
Jam8tone: https://m.youtube.com/user/jam8tone
Vanhela: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCFl_4AEy77YiPQPU3TdUSLw
