Saints Row 2

Each of these activities are done on a singular basis, meaning that if there is a co-op partner in the game they won't get credit for it if you complete it. You start these activities by getting in the related vehicle and hitting Y when prompted to do so. They all have 10 levels that must be completed.

Tow Truck:
This is probably the hardest of the diversions to complete. Tow Trucks aren't a common car, but you'll certainly see them every now and then so finding one won't be an issue.
In terms of what you are doing, it is rather a simplistic design. You simply need to tow the marked vehicles by backing up to the front or back and holding both LB and RB. Where it starts getting difficult is that you will gain police and gang notoriety as you get into the higher levels and you can't use a mechanic while doing this activity. This often leads to having your vehicle destroyed, and loss of the activity because of it, at around level 7 or 8 of 10.
That said, you can glitch this activity if you are in a co-op game. First, start the towing activity for yourself, then have your partner start an activity that disables notoriety levels, such as a race. You'll still have to worry about people standing near a vehicle, but at least you won't have to worry about people chasing you.

Fire Truck:
If you play the game normally, you're not likely to ever even see a fire truck. However, you can guarantee that you see a fire truck whenever you want by using the phone to dial 555-3473.
This diversion will have you running to a building with fires happening inside. The only real predictable way to put out fires is to get out of the truck and head inside with a fire extinguisher. Your best bet is to try and line up several objects that are on fire before you start spraying them so you can put out multiple targets at a time. There may be people running around on fire, but you don't have to put them out, however you will have to try to avoid them for health's sake.
Personally, I have had the fire extinguisher glitch on me once and wouldn't put out any fires. This only happened once though.

Ambulance:
These aren't just real common during normal gameplay, as such the best way to get one is to call 911.
During these missions you drive to an accident and have to revive people by doing 1 of 2 on-screen prompted mini-games. As you go up in levels you'll have to revive more and more people and you'll start being given more targets that you can revive than you'll have to. The only real worry during this is making sure one of the targets doesn't get run over. This obviously means you'll need to be careful when driving around the targets. It is possible that the targets can get run over by traffic, this normally won't happen however unless the traffic gets spooked somehow.

Taxi:
Taxi's are fairly common, so finding one shouldn't be a problem. Even so, you can always call 819-8415, 018-0174, or 455-8008 to have one of the companies drive to you.
During this activity, the basic idea is to drive a person to a target.
You will occasionally get bonus objectives that can earn you extra money (or occasionally cause you to get less). Most of the time, there isn't much point as how easy it is to get money. The one exception to this is when the person wants you to drive slow. If the place they are wanting you to take them is far away, this can end up forcing the price to drop to zero if you are driving fast (though I am uncertain if this actually causes them to get out considering it has never happened to me). Unfortunately, depending on how well you drive, you may end up in a situation where you'd run out of time if you drive slow. This causes you to have to judge whether or not to follow that rule on a case by case basis.

By far the most common problem with this achievement is completing the Tow Truck missions, and rightly so, as they are intensely frustrating. However, there is a way of making them very easy, and you wont need a second player for it either. In fact, as both players share notoriety, I would recommend going it alone, as an over-zealous trigger-happy partner could quite easily ruin this for you.

The easiest method for completing this activity is simple. Simply recruit as many homies as you are allowed (up to 3, depending on your story progression, but you'll need at least 2 for this method), and spend a little money on reinforcing a Tow Truck for yourself, just so you can last a little longer on the mean streets. With homies in tow, you should have one sat with you in the truck, and one or two trailing behind. It doesn't matter if they follow in a vehicle. In fact it's better that they do, as you wont be stuck looking for a homie to recruit near your target vehicle.

Start the activity, and drive to your target vehicle. Park as close as you can to it and then get out of your tow truck. When all your homies are close by, get back into your truck. All being well, your homie(s) not riding shotgun should take the target vehicle, and not the one they followed you in. Simply lead them back to the marker at the garage, hoist their vehicle and tow it the few remaining feet to complete the level.

Ultimately, the most important factor when using this method is that you don't shoot anyone and just concentrate on driving. Any enemy gang members killed by your homies will not count towards your notoriety, thereby making stealing their cars infinitely easier. Of course, they will still offer a little resistance because they'll be trying to kill the guy in your passenger seat, but they wont be coming down on you for the slightest infraction as they would be if it were you shooting them. Just remember to keep your finger off the trigger.

Also worth noting is that the game will occasionally spawn the required vehicles in the ground, meaning you won't be able to get them. Sadly, there does not seem to be a way to fix this, and you'll have to restart the activity and pray it doesn't happen again.

Using the above method, I was able to complete the activity on my second try, compared to the dozens of times I tried it with friends. Give it a shot and let me know if it works for you.

This is a lot easier to do in Coop.
Keep your Tow Truck in front of the garage for the entire time.

1) Do the tow truck diversion near the F&F in the upper left corner of the map.

2) Start it and go to your map, then have your partner pause the game. Now you can mark where the cars are with X while the game is paused.

3) Once you marked all the spots, have your partner resume game and have him drive the cars to you. He will get around 75% of the cops after him. Try to get out of your vehicle as much so they don't shoot it. When u have about 10 seconds left just jump in and jump back out.

4) Once he brings the vehicle to you, pick it up and drive into the area. If your truck takes too much damage, your coop partner can quickly take the Tow Truck into the garage and repair it. Just make sure you get in once he's done repairing it because you won't have much time. If there are too much cops, just have your partner drive it through the F&F. You will get a lot of stars on level 10 so instead of waiting by the marker wait by the F&F.

Level 1 - 1 car
Level 2 - 1 car
Level 3 - 1 car
Level 4 - 2 cars
Level 5 - 2 cars
Level 6 - 1 car
Level 7 - 2 cars
Level 8 - 2 cars
Level 9 - 1 car
Level 10 - 1 car

Blue Collar:

The first thing is I have to say, if you don't like the results you are getting in any diversions, change locations. That always makes it easier. 2nd thing I have to say is, save the vehicle in your hideout vehicle spot. Also make sure to upgrade your vehicle in any shop, upgrade all the parts so its more durable and can last longer.

This solution is mainly for the Tow Truck while done in a COOP game. Now what I did for my friends was sit in the racing activity near the lighthouse in Stilwater Boardwalk HOTELS & MARINA DISTRICT. You can go around while on the motorcycle and don't have to worry about finishing the race, or you can just sit there and this will block any notoriety.
If you ever need to restart the race, just push down on the D-pad and you will appear back at the race spot, just click A to start it again.

While being the Tow-Truck person me and my friends had a couple of glitches happen.

1) most common I heard of is a vehicle being stuck in the wall. To fix this, you MUST blow up the vehicle and hurry to the next one.
2) This one is by far the worst, you will get to the shop to drop the vehicle off, once you go into the drop off point, it will dissapear the vehicle, timer will stop, but you will not be on the next level. This happened to both my friends at lvl 9, and it happened to me at lvl 5. There is no known way to fix this other then to push down on the D-pad and restart. If anyone finds a way without restarting how to fix this please comment or message me.
3) I had a vehicle on the roof of the house completely impossible to tow, so I got out and shot 2 rpg's at the vehicle, surprisingly it flew off the building and I was able to tow and finish the level. If anyone has anymore to add to the list and if you can find the solution message me.
4) I had my tow truck become invisible to anything other then buildings, this was awesome, but when I hit level 5 it may have been the reason why I got the #2 glitch, so if you get this to happen to you too, I would recommend getting out of your tow truck, then getting back in and you will be a solid object again. Note: I was driving through vehicles/trees/fences not the vehicle I was carrying.

Any questions or need advice, message/comment.


Good luck, and please, have fun.

OK, so at time of writing, I have not got this achievement but I have completed the tow truck diversion, which is the most ridiculous one. Here's some tips on how to do it in single player.

Switch to casual mode if you have been playing on hard or normal.
Do it in the suburbs area and learn where all the short cuts are. If the pick up is to the east, you can smash through fences and squeeze between houses, if to the west, roll over the grassy area next to Freckle Bitch's. To the north, just make sure to cut corners and go over parking lots etc.
Try to avoid running over stuff (pedestrians aren't too bad but the cos go crazy about lamp posts and post boxes while doing this one for some reason).
Don't do turn in road manoeuvres, spin round as if you are doing a doughnut instead and always make sure to point at the rim-jobs before picking up the car as turning when hitched sucks.
It started raining at the later levels for me, which made it HARD. If this happens to you, you may want to save and reload till it's nice and clear.
Up to level 5, drive to the areas spin round, steal the car (shoot the people if you have to but try and sneak past), place it near the truck, hitch it, go back as carefully as possible.
Start hitching as soon as you press Y to get back in the truck, don't wait till he's in it.
Level 6 is the ambulance, go to the general area and position the truck then kill the paramedics, run back to the truck to reset the time, grab some homies, move the ambulance near the truck, get out and get in the truck, wait for your homies to get in the ambulance (they are sometimes slow and stupid so you have to poke them), drive back to rim-jobs without hitching it, hitch it right next to the drop off point, drive in.
7 will be 2 ronin bikes or a truck - it's easier than 6 so use the original method as it's faster.
8 onwards, go back to the homies method.

I did this first time after switching to easy from normal when it driving me mental so I'd say if you are having trouble at harder difficulty then this may just do it for you.

Some of these tips were from other solutions and walkthroughs so if they are from yours then thank you :)

Edit: Have now got this one. The others parts were a walk in the park compared to the tow truck. Only one I had trouble with was fire fighter but I tried it in the suburbs and had no problems.