@Reacon Nope, its very odd i could copy the top section of a working .meta and it still have the same error at the stated line.
get the same error with the following, really confused
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<CVehicleModelInfoVariation>
<variationData>
<Item>
<modelName>slamvan</modelName>
<colors>
<Item>
<indices content="char_array">
0
0
20
156
</indices>
<liveries>
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
<Item value="false" />
</liveries>
</Item>