CarlWinslow2000 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Start The Gas Man case Once the fire chief invites you to hear his theory Fire Station 32 get's added to your map, inside fire station 32 is a Fire Truck that keeps respawning. From my playthrough I'd estimate the vehicle damage on a totaled fire truck is around 10,000 to 14,000 which is much much higher than just crashing normal cars over and over again. Just barrel down the street totaling other cars with the fire truck untill it's trashed, drive back up the street and back to the fire house, rinse and repeat another 4 or 5 times to be safe. This is by far the fastest and safest way to get this achievement that I've come across plus the case isn't all that long so you can get through and end it rather quickly as well. I hope this helps some of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanT32 Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Nice,Just got on that case a few minutes ago. Will definitely give this a shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stapes Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Great idea. I'll definitely give this a shot tonight. One of the achievements I was extremely curious about how much time I was going to have to spend on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reel Big Eddy Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Seems a good way to go about it. I just crashed loads of cars, helped me towards driving each one in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereopathic Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 nice idea! it reminds me that i saw in its description that the Phantom Corsair cost $24,000 to produce. i wonder if that also might be a good car to trash too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x S 7 R I K E Z Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Thanks i will do this tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annalie Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 This method has been posted twice already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeBonhomme7h Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Thanks for the advice ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belmat22 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Just confirming that this method works extremely well. I crashed 6 fire engines into cars until the engine was dead and got a final count of $92,000 vehicle damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha X Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 For anyone who's interested, that fire house is located between Hollywood and Wilshire, on Melrose Ave, between Berendo and Vermont. It's just to the right of this big stadium looking thing on the map that you can't miss. I just did this last night actually, the only difference was that I did it in the first traffic mission because I already knew where that fire house was and that case is much shorter. Plus, I just posted my method which is similar to this one on Gamefaqs a few minutes ago and then I come here and see this, interesting coincidence (I know this was posted much earlier in the day). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlWinslow2000 Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 (edited) First off sorry if this is a repost, second are you accusing me of stealing this? I happened across this on my own when I first played this mission and totaled one of the fire trucks and wondered how the hell my vehicle damage was so high I went back and tested if it was the fire truck. And lastly who the hell cares, it's helping people right? Then who cares if it's a repost or that you think I stole this method for all the great meaningless internet praise. I certainly won't care when this get's buried and someone else reposts it, if it's helping people out then great. From the sounds of it, you weren't the first person to post this method either so maybe someone should accuse you of stealing to get all that wonderful internet notoriety. Edited May 23, 2011 by CarlWinslow2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spoonerist Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 This is definitely interesting information to me. I was just trying this Achievement and I failed twice even though I was sure I had enough damage done. Thanks a ton! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha X Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 (edited) First off sorry if this is a repost, second are you accusing me of stealing this? I happened across this on my own when I first played this mission and totaled one of the fire trucks and wondered how the hell my vehicle damage was so high I went back and tested if it was the fire truck. And lastly who the hell cares, it's helping people right? Then who cares if it's a repost or that you think I stole this method for all the great meaningless internet praise. I certainly won't care when this get's buried and someone else reposts it, if it's helping people out then great. From the sounds of it, you weren't the first person to post this method either so maybe someone should accuse you of stealing to get all that wonderful internet notoriety. Did you even read my post or did you just read the part where I said I posted something similar on Gamefaqs and just assumed I was accusing you of stealing? Why the hell would I take the time at the end to point out that I understood that this was posted earlier in the day, therefore before my post on Gamefaqs if I honestly thought you stole it from me? You need to calm down and stop being so unnecessarily sensitive. Edited May 23, 2011 by Alpha X Fixed wording Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M49907 Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Calm down ladies. I am wondering if crashing a few of the rare cars will be faster. Does the value of the car you crash count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xKRAIZEEMANx Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I simply piled up cars, and drove half on the street, half on the road mowing through everything in sight....It is simply total penalties, not necessarily vehicle damage. One thing...the pedestrians are hard to run over!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NASKNSTE Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 This method has been posted twice already. Well now it's been posted again ok ese! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonatan555 Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I know it's been posted before, but I think by far the easiest way to get this is to wait until the case after Gas Man. Spoiler Alert The case where you investigate the Housing Development that was burned down. There are at least 3 fire trucks on site. Simply drive them around until the hood starts smoking. No waiting for anything to respawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWAGGART Posted May 29, 2011 Share Posted May 29, 2011 For anyone who's interested, that fire house is located between Hollywood and Wilshire, on Melrose Ave, between Berendo and Vermont. It's just to the right of this big stadium looking thing on the map that you can't miss. I just did this last night actually, the only difference was that I did it in the first traffic mission because I already knew where that fire house was and that case is much shorter. Plus, I just posted my method which is similar to this one on Gamefaqs a few minutes ago and then I come here and see this, interesting coincidence (I know this was posted much earlier in the day). Thanks man I was wondering where it was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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