[ Tutorial ] - How to stop Muscle Cars from doing Wheelies

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Given the fact that you are here, I presume you also detest Rockstar's new gimmicky muscle car wheelie functionality. Luckily for us, it's pretty easy to get rid of

You can get this done in ~5>40mins tops (depending on how organised you are). I have all my modded files extracted in an exact replica of the in-game folder structure so this took me ~ 2 secs to complete the file changes & ~ 3>4 mins to install the files (using the 'Automated (Intermediate)' process below).

Basically, all that needs to be done to remove the wheelies is change this line in a vehicle's 'vehicles.meta':

      <vehicleClass>VC_MUSCLE</vehicleClass>

to this:

      <vehicleClass>VC_SPORT</vehicleClass>

Note: ANY other 'VC_?????' value ('VC_MOTORCYCLE', 'VC_UTILITY', 'VC_SUPER' etc) will work to do the same just as long as it's NOT 'VC_MUSCLE'. I just chose 'VC_SPORT' as in my mind it is probably the closest to 'VC_MUSCLE'.
Also, this process should work in reverse. Say you want another 'vehicleClass' of vehicle to be able to do wheelies (might be interesting on a Motorbike or even a Train lol) all you have to do is change their 'vehicleClass' line to 'VC_MUSCLE' & it should work (Note: Theoretically anyway, untested).

Automated (Simple):
All you have to do is open up the 'vehicles.meta' files & then use something like Notepad++'s replace functionality ('Ctrl+H') to replace the value 'VC_MUSCLE' with 'VC_SPORT'.

Replace

Automated (Intermediate):
If you have your files extracted mirroring the game folder structure you can do ALL 'vehicles.meta' files in one go by using Notepad++'s 'Find in Files' functionality ('Ctrl+Shift+F')

Find in Files

Manual:
You could also do it in OpenIV using it's Edit ('Ctrl+Enter') function (~1 hr tops) but as there is no replace functionality, this will take a bit longer & there's more chance of a mistake copying & pasting that many times. The advantage here is that you don't need to mess about with which file goes where as you are editing them in-place.

That's it. No more wheelie nonsense