Mechanic Legends Beginner Guide: Your First Car
Quick answer
- Start here: In Mechanic Legends, follow the junkyard tutorial, repair the first car and sell it at the used car dealer.
- Keep the route: Use the green GPS guidance between the garage, paint work and dealer; finish the tutorial before chasing auction cars.
- First owned car: The tutorial ends with the keys to a Hoshino Metro. Give that car a purpose before spending on optional tools.
Buy the tutorial project
Go to the junkyard when the opening tutorial sends you there. On the recorded desktop controls, hold E beside the car to inspect it, then buy the tutorial project. Follow the green route on the ground back toward your garage. You are learning how one car moves through the workshop, rather than trying to assemble a complete collection immediately.
Keep this first restoration as your only project until it is finished. A tempting auction garage is a different purchase with an uncertain result. Getting through the starter sequence gives you the context for deciding whether the next visit should focus on customer work, a personal build or collecting.
Repair before the cosmetic work
Put the project on the garage lift and raise it. The opening repair sequence includes removing a battery, charging it and putting it back, plus repairing the radiator with garage equipment. Those are different jobs: charging a battery and fixing a metal component do not mean every part belongs in the same machine.
Keep removed components close to the car you are repairing and reinstall the intended part before moving on. This is ordinary workshop organization, not a claim about an inventory-loss rule. Once the mechanical tutorial work is done, continue to the rust shop and paint booth. A new color is the finishing stage of this tutorial, rather than a substitute for getting the car back together.
| Stage | What you do | Useful result |
|---|---|---|
| Junkyard | Inspect and buy the tutorial project | One car to restore |
| Garage | Charge the battery and repair the radiator | Mechanical tutorial work completed |
| Paint and dealer | Strip, paint and sell the project | Finish the opening route and take starter keys |
Finish the restoration and take the keys
Strip the old paint at the rust shop, then drive into the paint booth and apply the color you want. Continue to the used car dealer and sell the restored tutorial car. The opening sequence then lets you take the starter keys; the car shown is named Hoshino Metro.
Treat those keys as the useful first-session result. The tutorial sale is part of this opening sequence, so do not assume every later purchase gives another starter car or identical profit. You now have a vehicle to use while learning the map. The repair guide adds more detail about separating mechanical work from paint and performance changes.
Choose a next visit you can finish
After the tutorial, pick one task: spend time on customer jobs, keep developing an owned car or explore Los Archilis with a friend. You do not need to do all three before leaving. A short visit with one completed objective is easier to enjoy than a garage full of projects you no longer remember buying.
Start with customer jobs if the workshop itself is what you enjoy. If you would rather drive, use your starter car to get comfortable with familiar destinations before planning a more expensive build. Leave optional passes until you know which activity you want them to help. An attractive demonstration car is a goal you can choose later, rather than a requirement for starting.