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When a vehicle is deleted by an admin command or stored in a garage, you may need to remove it from persistence so it doesn’t respawn later. Here are a few examples of how to accomplish this using the ForgetVehicle export.

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QBCore Delete Vehicle Command (/dv)

When you delete a vehicle manually using a command, you should remove it from the database so it stops being persistent.
resources/[qb]/qb-core/client/events.lua
RegisterNetEvent('QBCore:Command:DeleteVehicle', function()
    local ped = PlayerPedId()
    local veh = GetVehiclePedIsUsing(ped)
    if veh ~= 0 then
        -- Add this line to forget the vehicle
        exports['ts-persistence']:ForgetVehicle(nil, QBCore.Functions.GetPlate(veh))
        
        SetEntityAsMissionEntity(veh, true, true)
        DeleteVehicle(veh)
    else
        local pcoords = GetEntityCoords(ped)
        local vehicles = GetGamePool('CVehicle')
        for _, v in pairs(vehicles) do
            if #(pcoords - GetEntityCoords(v)) <= 5.0 then
                -- Add this line to forget the vehicle
                exports['ts-persistence']:ForgetVehicle(nil, QBCore.Functions.GetPlate(v))
                
                SetEntityAsMissionEntity(v, true, true)
                DeleteVehicle(v)
            end
        end
    end
end)

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Adding to a Garage System

If you are adding this script to your server, you will need to add the export when a vehicle is successfully stored in the garage so that it stops being persistent. Here is an example for how it looks on the default qb-garages script when a vehicle gets deposited:
resources/[qb]/qb-garages/client/main.lua
local function DepositVehicle(veh, data)
    local plate = QBCore.Functions.GetPlate(veh)
    QBCore.Functions.TriggerCallback('qb-garages:server:canDeposit', function(canDeposit)
        if canDeposit then
            local bodyDamage = math.ceil(GetVehicleBodyHealth(veh))
            local engineDamage = math.ceil(GetVehicleEngineHealth(veh))
            local totalFuel = exports[Config.FuelResource]:GetFuel(veh)
            TriggerServerEvent('qb-mechanicjob:server:SaveVehicleProps', QBCore.Functions.GetVehicleProperties(veh))
            TriggerServerEvent('qb-garages:server:updateVehicleStats', plate, totalFuel, engineDamage, bodyDamage)
            
            -- Add this line to forget the vehicle from persistence
            exports['ts-persistence']:ForgetVehicle(nil, plate)
            
            CheckPlayers(veh)
            if plate then TriggerServerEvent('qb-garages:server:UpdateOutsideVehicle', plate, nil) end
            QBCore.Functions.Notify(Lang:t('success.vehicle_parked'), 'primary', 4500)
        else
            QBCore.Functions.Notify(Lang:t('error.not_owned'), 'error', 3500)
        end
    end, plate, data.type, data.indexgarage, 1)
end
Last modified on March 11, 2026