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You Got The Message

You Got The Message

You delivered all 30 cars ordered through text message.

How to unlock the You Got The Message achievement in Grand Theft Auto IV - Definitive Guide

Here is a link to a map I made a while ago after you get the texts this is where you can find the cars, then take them to the unlabeled green dot on the map that is the garage on bohan. After that go save and after sleeping you should receive another text. You can break the windows on the car and it still counts as good condition.

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The map is larger if you go to the comments and click the link.
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15 Feb 2009 09:50

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i have completed the game and have at no point recieved a text from stevie, had you already completed his street races before you did this?
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By Lord Spazmonkey on 08 Apr 2009 13:00
i forgot to mention i havent finished street races yet which is why i asked
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By Lord Spazmonkey on 08 Apr 2009 13:01
yeah ive done that and i didnt rush it at all, i have brucie liking me 100% n ive done one of all of his races so far but no message off stevie :(
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By Lord Spazmonkey on 14 Apr 2009 21:08
You should have gotten the messages around the missions "No. 1" and "Smackdown.," if you have completed those go back and see if you may have gotten the message but looked over it.
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By GAMEPASSDADD on 15 Apr 2009 06:21
The texts sometimes just do not appear and there is not way to access them without starting a new game, that happened to me.
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By xombie25 on 13 Jun 2009 00:06
Fan-fuckin-tastic!!!! Best solution ever!! :)
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By System of a Dom on 10 Aug 2009 16:43
I've finished the story mode and got the txt messages during the game to collect the cars, but i chose to do it after i had completed it, now i've gone back to do this and everytime i get in the first car i'm not getting any info where i should take it, its just like i'm stealing a normal car
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By doctor tchock85 on 24 Nov 2009 03:18
You have to take it to the garage in bohan its the unmarked green dot on the map.
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By GAMEPASSDADD on 25 Nov 2009 22:49
what if you have a bunch text messages and you don't which one is which?

Or can i just start jacking the cars off the guide map and they will start to count towards this achievement?
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By InugamiTheHound on 08 May 2010 18:17
wow this is bull i also haven't gotten the text yet. done all races all exotic exports. brucie like is at 80 finished game...
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By BiG PaPa ChIlL on 22 Jul 2010 15:48
You have to steal the cars in order that is why there are names on the dots.
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By GAMEPASSDADD on 22 Jul 2010 18:41
for those wondering. u prob have got the text. just look back through ur messages. and you should have one from stevie. the cars are a random order for everyone.
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By on 07 Mar 2011 05:01
i got the message and went to the place and there was no car? what is this?
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By The Freshhnesss on 13 Jul 2011 20:19
@The Freshhnesss: If you go there by using a cab, the cars possibly won't be there the first time you visit the location. Just run around the blocks for some minutes, and they will spawn exactly where the map says.
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By tajbender on 18 Jul 2011 00:01
THANK YOU!!!! I didnt know where to bring the cars.
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By Atomic Clutch X on 17 Aug 2011 19:33
you should maybe mention using the taxi to get there might be faster :)
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By Syberpr0 on 25 Nov 2011 21:59
hey i have the problem that i completed the story but stevie is not in my phone list so i cant call him
any ideas?
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By x RossY 360 on 16 Jan 2012 22:36
Man, this achievement takes forever. It probably took me almost three hours to get them all.
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By AtomicThumbs on 10 Mar 2012 15:18
when i pick up the cars there is no green dot but a garage on the tiny island pops up and i just hit start went to the map and set the waypoint each time i grabbed one for stevie subtitles pops up and say this is a car for stevie
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By TONLOC10420 on 12 Apr 2012 07:48
@AtomicThumbs. Yes. Because forever=3 hours.
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By JSleek XD on 14 Apr 2012 19:50
I stole the 1st car now, what can I do to get the the 2nd message and so on?!
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By LOST Thanu on 06 May 2012 13:46
Has anyone solved the issue of the not appearing text messages from Stevie/ I have done all of Brucies missions, done Derricks mission and no texts? Am I going to have to try to do this on a second playthru?
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By x Xbomber1 x on 08 Aug 2012 21:06
So where's that link then? Looked through the comments.. Nothing. Yoiu could at least have edited your solution and added it there. Negative vote.
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By o S0LIDUS o on 03 Sep 2012 16:57
Right, so you can copy it off of the picture, still, you can easily add a link in there, if you wished. http://i30.tinypic.com/23lm4yf.jpg
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By o S0LIDUS o on 03 Sep 2012 17:09
Uhmnn.. Apparently I already changed the vote :S Oh well.
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By o S0LIDUS o on 12 Apr 2013 20:36
If anyone is still trying to figure out how to get Stevies texts, if you haven't done it yet look through your e-mails for one from French Tom, set up a date with him and complete it. Which in turn will unlock No. 1, and then all Brucies races and Stevies texts.
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By mast3r 0r0m1s on 26 Oct 2013 19:35
Sorry for the double, but if you want to see how many cars you have so far, Stats - Score - 2nd from bottom.
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By mast3r 0r0m1s on 26 Oct 2013 19:43
i down voted because the the guide lacks information on how to get this achievement started. great map; but in order to be a great guide, it should have all necessary stipulations for initiating the achievement.
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By Lukaztro on 08 Oct 2015 23:42
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By HQAZE on 08 Nov 2020 04:30
You have to complete brucies cars and then continue through his storyline before the text messages will appear. Im sorry to say that I am not sure how to help you because I dont know how you have completed the game without getting this unless you rushed through it. The only things I can think of are to make sure you do everything for brucie and take him on man dates and eventually his friend stevie will send you a text.
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By GAMEPASSDADD on 08 Apr 2009 21:04
As you might be able to tell from my previous comments, I did not initially consider opening the picture in a new tab, and might have been slightly annoyed of the inconvinience at the time. I still think a link should be available as there are bound to be people who do not know that you can use the link as such. Either that or a very brief explaination would make the solution better imho. That's why the vote was assigned negatively, as I thought you were being a bit too lazy, not taking everyone into account, but okay.. It was probably a bad day for me. Vote changed.
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By o S0LIDUS o on 12 Apr 2013 20:35
I must admit, this is not a thorough guide. To clarify, the cars are NEVER located as a destination on your map. The garage you have to take it to is in the top right island next to the Safe house labeled "Garage" and is otherwise never listed as a destination after you obtain the car. I waited to start this until after I completed the main missions and Brucie's car thefts (Neither are necessary to 100% before starting this). I scrolled through my messages on my phone to find Stevie's name, which had the name of the car I had to find, then I used the map in this guide to find each one. As the guide states, you might as well just sleep after each car at the nearby safe house to get the next text.
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By Dragonborn Gear on 10 Mar 2016 00:14
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Here is a website that provides a map that can be enlarge to find the location of the vehicles Stevie tells you to get.

http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Stevie%27s_Car_Thefts
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love it
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By FearlessDonut on 01 Dec 2009 21:59
Helped a ton, thanks!
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By Duckayame on 17 Jul 2011 16:29
Way better than Milk Man's map. Thanks
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By Wcbezoeker on 14 Aug 2013 09:35
Link is now dead.
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By EarthboundX on 23 Feb 2017 06:35
Thanks, I have provided a new link to the wiki site that gives even better info than what I previously posted. Its been a long time I guess I should have made sure to screencap the map while it was available at the time.
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By Juanblue85 on 25 Jan 2018 21:40
Very useful link, thank you for sharing!
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By Interracial on 24 Dec 2019 09:21
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By HQAZE on 08 Nov 2020 04:30
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This solution is adapted from my GTAIV guide. Hence any similarities.

You will have access to the Car Theft Missions (not to be confused with Brucie's Exotic Export Missions) after you complete Smackdown for Derrick McReary. This mission occurs about 3/4 of the way through the main story missions. Also make sure you have completed No. 1 for Brucie to be introduced to Stevie.

• You will receive your "contracts" through text messages, rather than email. You'll get one text message at a time, and you don't need to do anything special to accept the mission like you did with Brucie.

• There are 30 cars to steal now, rather than 10. Thirty cars takes a long time, and may get tedious. It might be nice to save some other missions to do in case these get boring.

• The text message only contains a vague location of the car Stevie wants, along with a picture that should give you some visual clues of where the desired vehicle is. You won't get a blip on your radar.

• The car will only appear after you read the text. This has some interesting consequences. You can actually look at the empty spot where the car will appear, read the text message, and watch the car appear like magic.

• Sometimes (especially if you take a taxi to the destination), the car won't appear, even after reading the text. To fix this, just drive a few blocks down the road, and come back. The missing vehicle should have appeared.

• Once you get the correct car, some text should appear on the screen telling you that it's the car Stevie wants.

• Breaking a window to get into the car doesn't decrease the value for some reason, so don't worry about that.

• The missions are less random. Though you'll receive the texts in varying order, the same vehicles will always be in the same places. Thus it is best to use the following alphabetical list to find which island your car is on and then reference the correct map.

• You must wait a bit after delivering a car before you get another text message from Stevie. If you'd like to speed things up, just sleep in between thefts.

• After delivering all 30 cars, you can continue to deliver cars for cash, a great way to earn money in a pinch.

• The drop off point for the vehicles is in a garage on Bohan, no matter what island you jack the car from. Some of the vehicles will be particularly hard to get to the garage without dinging them up a little! Fortunately, if you want to receive full payment for all of the vehicles, you can use a Pay 'N' Spray and / or Car Wash to get the vehicle in top condition before bringing it over.

Alphabetical List of Cars

Car Name - Location - Max Value

Banshee - Algonquin (3) - $26,400
Bobcat - Dukes / Broker (8) - $8250
Buccaneer - Bohan (2) - $5940
Cavalcade - Alderney (2) - $23,100
Cognoscenti - Alderney (3) - $29,700
Comet - Algonquin (4) - $19,800
Contender - Dukes / Broker (5) - $8250
Coquette - Algonquin (6) - $13,530
DF8-90 - Dukes / Broker (11) - $5940
Dilettante - Dukes / Broker (4) - $6600
Dukes - Algonquin (1) - $7260
Faggio - Algonquin (7) - $2310
Freeway - Dukes / Broker (7) - $6600
Huntley Sport - Bohan (1) - $13,200
Infernus - Dukes / Broker (10) - $33,000
Intruder - Dukes / Broker (9) - $8250
Manana - Dukes / Broker (6) - $3960
Moonbeam - Charge Island (1) - $7260
NRG 900 - Algonquin (2) - $8250
Patriot - Algonquin (10) - $16,500
PMP 600 - Algonquin (9) - $10,560
Rancher - Alderney (6) - $8250
Rebla - Algonquin (5) - $11,550
Sabre GT - Dukes / Broker (1) - $8250
Sentinel - Alderney (4) - $8250
Sultan - Alderney (5) - $11,550
SuperGT - Algonquin (8) - $36,300
Turismo - Alderney (1) - $36,300
Voodoo - Dukes / Broker (3) - $6600
Washington - Dukes / Broker (2) - $7260
Maps

Dukes and Broker
Bohan
Charge Island
Algonquin
Alderney

Detailed descriptions:

Dukes and Broker

1. Sabre GT - Meadows Park
The green and yellow Sabre GT should be easy to find, even without the help of a map. The towers in the background should give the location away. Anyway, it's sitting in the driveway in front of the garage. There's an alarm, but it shouldn't attract any attention.

2. Washington - Steinway
The Washington is across the street from the in-ground pool mentioned in the text message. There's no alarm.

3. Voodoo - East Island City
The Voodoo is parked in front of the very tall LC24 building. The area is quite thick with cops, so you may have to wait a while before stealing it, unless you plan on just outrunning them.

4 Dilettante - Willis
The Dilettante is actually NOT in front of the theater at all, as the text message would have you believe. Head north from the theater and take the first road on your left. You should see the brown Dilettante parked here. Wait for any cops to leave, and grab the car. There's no alarm.

5. Contender - BOABO
The Contender, a pickup truck, sits just inside the gates of this warehouse area. No alarm.

6. Manana - Cerveza Heights
The Manana is sitting in a parking lot south of the abandoned Burger Shot. No alarm.

7. Freeway - Willis
The Freeway is right in front of the Wash 'N' Lube, no alarm, and you shouldn't have any trouble.

8. Bobcat - Francis International Airport
This lonely Bobcat sits on the top floor of the three story parking garage. Shouldn't be hard to find (or to steal) at all. Wait for the alarm to die before leaving, since the airport is swarming with cops.

9. Intruder - Rotterdam Hill
The Intruder bides its time next to a hot dog vendor. No alarm.

10. Infernus - Downtown
The Infernus is parked on the curb in front of the Pizza / Salad restaurant. Just like Stevie suggests, it sticks out like a sore thumb. There is an alarm and plenty of heat in the area, so take some care with this theft, especially considering the potential value of the car.

11. DF8-90 - Hove Beach
The DF8-90 is sitting in a roped-in parking lot. No alarm.

Bohan

1. Huntley Sport - Northern Gardens
The Huntley Sport is located right in the parking lot of the police station. I suppose it's possible to wait until no cops are looking, but I found it easier to just grab the thing and high tail it out of there. The Huntley Sport is worth a lot of money, so you may want to fix it up before taking it to Stevie if it's badly damaged.

2. Buccaneer - Industrial District
The Buccaneer is sitting on an inconspicuous corner, just off the road. There is an alarm, so wait until any cops clear out.

Charge Island

1. Moonbeam
In a parking lot north of the northernmost cluster of tanks on the island. There is no alarm, and it's very easy to jack this car without attracting any attention whatsoever.

Algonquin

1. Dukes - East Holland
The Dukes is an easy grab, sitting in front of Ned's Drugstore. Part of the engine is sticking out of the hood, if that helps.

2. NRG 900 - Lancaster
The much loved NRG 900 is parked right in front of the Derriere, and there is no alarm to worry about.

3. Banshee - Middle Park West
The Banshee is located a block west of the southwest corner of Middle Park. There's no alarm, and this is a surprisingly easy grab.

4 Comet - Westminster
The Comet sits in the large parking lot north of the Burger Shot. In fact, it may very well be the only car there! It's a tough steal. Though you aren't close to the road, the alarm will sound and any police in the area will be very interested. Luckily, there's a Pay 'N' Spray just down the street, if you need it.

5. Rebla - The Triangle
The Rebla is parked right in front of Fanny Crabs, as the text suggests. There's an alarm.

6. Coquette - Suffolk
The Coquette is easy to spot, just sitting in front of the church (which itself is easy to spot). There's an alarm, of course.

7. Faggio - Chinatown
The lonely Faggio is in front of MK Restaurant (with the yellow and orange lettering). There's no alarm, of course, but you may want to look around for police anyway. Chinatown is pretty crowded.

8. SuperGT - Chinatown
The SuperGT is right across the street from the 69 Exchange building. Curiously, it is parked the wrong way on a one way street. There's an alarm.

9. PMP 600 - The Exchange
The PMP 600 sits peacefully in an alley, just big enough to accommodate. There's an alarm, but you're in a relatively covered area, so break in with confidence.

10. Patriot - Castle Gardens
The gaudy, bright yellow Patriot is parked near the two connected towers, right in front of a hot dog stand. There's an alarm and lots of cops about, and you're quite a ways away from the garage. Be extra cautious with this particular theft.

Alderney

1. Turismo - Westdyke
The Turismo is parked in front of a very large mansion, in the driveway off to the right. There's an alarm, but no one should bother you if you stick around in the driveway until it dies down.

2. Cavalcade - Westdyke
The Cavalcade is an SUV type vehicle with no alarm, sitting in a dark driveway. It shouldn't give you trouble except for maybe the long drive.

3. Cognoscenti - Alderney City
The Cognoscenti is sitting in a rundown alley. There's an alarm, but you should be fairly safe to just grab the thing and speed off.

4. Sentinel - Normandy
The Sentinel sits just south of the northernmost row of tanks in a parking lot. It's a quiet area, but there is an alarm, so you should hang around until it dies.

5. Sultan - Berchem
The Sultan is parked on the west side of the street at the end of a driveway, diagonally in front of a garage. There's an alarm, but you should be safe if you wait it out in the driveway.

6. Rancher - Port Tudor
The Rancher truck is parked in the parking lot of the southern warehouse. No alarm, no cops, no problem (usually).
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Super helpful, thank you :)
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By Barn3yXBOX on 10 Mar 2019 08:38
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By HQAZE on 08 Nov 2020 04:32
@HQAZE I linked maps in my solution already.
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By Octobot Super on 10 Dec 2021 20:52
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Here's a map link that still works and has all the names on the map, made it very easy for me to do.

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26 Jan 2021 02:34

If you don’t care about your money (which you shouldn’t in GTA IV tbh), I found that killing yourself three times to get Stevie texts was many many times quicker than driving back/taxing back home and sleeping multiple times.

Use ammo cheat and annihilator cheat and just blow yourself up and use chopper to traverse the map quicker.

In my experience, I didn’t really get the Stevie texts when sleeping. It was too random and delayed.

10 seconds after dying three times, I was guaranteed a text.

Other guides have map image so I won’t take away that credit.
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12 Dec 2023 08:41

Stevie is a friend of Brucie's who sends Niko text messages for vehicles he wants Niko to steal. Stevie's text messages include the target vehicle's type, location and a picture of the vehicle and where the vehicle is parked.

Niko's reward depends on the vehicle's condition when he returns it to Stevie in his Chase Point, Bohan garage. Perfect vehicle condition is the highest reward level and the reward level decreases the more damaged the vehicle is when returned to Stevie.

Stevie begins to text Niko following the completion of Brucie's mission "No. 1".

Below is a strategy that has helped me:

1. Make a list of Stevie's text message vehicles and locations or use one someone else made to track your retrieved vehicles (full credit goes to the author at supercheats.com): https://www.supercheats.com/guides/grand-theft-auto-4/stevie...

2. Review Stevie's text message: note the vehicle name and location name.

3. Hail a taxi.

4. Open in-game map.

5. Open and log in to MapGenie.io (to save your progress for Stevie's vehicles, Pigeons, etc., full credit to MapGenie.io, awesome website): https://mapgenie.io/grand-theft-auto-4/maps/liberty-city

6. Input the vehicle's location in MapGenie.io search bar. Select the result location to display it on the map.

7. Select "Show All" items on the map. Find your vehicle's name icon on the MapGenie.io map.

8. Mark a waypoint about one block away from the vehicle's location on your GTA IV map screen while you're still in the cab. If you mark your waypoint too close to the vehicle's location, the vehicle will not spawn when you fast-travel in the taxi.

9. Travel to the waypoint you placed on the GTA IV map screen in the cab.

10. Retrieve the vehicle. This should create a new garage icon on your map and there should be a text on your screen that says "You've found the vehicle Stevie is looking for."

Vehicles with alarms can be triggered and the hot wire sequence interrupted so Niko is not caught stealing the vehicle by nearby police. Niko breaks the glass, triggers the vehicle alarm and walks away from the vehicle.

11. Drive the vehicle to your safe house in Joliet Street, Bohan. Park the vehicle in front of the safe house in the yellow square. You can park and save a maximum of 2 vehicles in this yellow square.

12. Save your game by sleeping in your bed in your Bohan safehouse.

13. Once your game is saved, press Start and load that save.

14. Leave your safe house and retrieve the vehicle that should now be 100%/perfect condition.

15. Drop off the vehicle at Stevie's garage, get the maximum/perfect reward and mark the vehicle off your list.

16. Return to your Bohan safehouse. Save your game. Receive a new text message from Stevie.

17. Repeat process 29 more times.
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09 Sep 2022 00:01

Need to deliver 30 cars for Stevie:

https://gta.ag.ru/gta4/db/maps/stevie.htm
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To speed up the process, after the car is driven in, there is an autosave. After auto-seeding, click start and load the last entry. Having appeared in the house, we immediately save. after Niko gets out of bed, a new SMS will come from Stevie or when going outside.
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By Valentapl on 08 Mar 2013 13:15
it is not necessary to download and save. Steve's garage is located 20 seconds in real time from the safehouse in Bohan. You can simply run to it and save, and when Niko gets out of bed, he will immediately receive an SMS with the next car. This will be a little faster than loading the game after each car)
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By zae_varik on 02 Jan 2015 02:12
After completing missions “No. 1" and "Smackdown.", Steve will send you orders for cars via text messages with pictures. Use the map to find the car you need; sometimes you can find a car just on the street.
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By Kirill50CR7 on 29 Jul 2011 19:01
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