WARDOGS: How to Repair Vehicles

Vehicles in WARDOGS wear their damage on the outside. A truck that has taken fire will sit on a flat tire, trail smoke from the engine bay, and lose speed long before it actually explodes. Because every vehicle is bought with cash that carries across matches, fixing one is almost always cheaper than replacing it.

Quick answer: Buy a Wrench, Light Drill or Heavy Drill from the Equipment Vendor’s Vehicle tab under the Spec Item slot, equip the tool, then aim at each damaged part and hold the use button.

WARDOGS repair tools: Wrench, Light Drill and Heavy Drill

Three tools can repair vehicles, and they differ in speed and in whether they need power. The Wrench is described in-game as cheap, reliable and slow, and it repairs all vehicles. The two drills work faster but will not function without batteries.

Tool	Slot	Repair speed	Batteries
Wrench	Quick slot	Slow	No
Light Drill	Spec. Item	Moderate	Yes
Heavy Drill	Spec. Item	Fastest	Yes

The Wrench is the safe default for anyone who just wants a working tool in the kit at all times. If you plan to drive or fly for a whole match, a drill saves real time on a badly beaten vehicle — as long as you carry spare batteries.

Repairs pay out rewards and support XP, so patching up a teammate’s vehicle is not charity work.

Buy a repair tool from the Equipment Vendor

Head to an Equipment Vendor and open its menu. The first screen is the Overview, which lays out everything your operator is carrying, from weapons and gear to the backpack.

Equipment Vendor Overview tab showing the operator's weapons, gear and carried items — The Equipment Vendor’s Overview tab, where your current loadout slots are listed. Image: BULKHEAD

Select the Spec Item slot, which sits third in the Overview list. This is the slot that holds vehicle utility gear rather than weapons or medical items.

Switch to the Vehicle tab. It sits alongside Tactical, Recon, Building, Medical and Launcher, and it lists the Wrench, Light Drill, Heavy Drill and the Fuel Can.

Buy the tool you want. The purchase is confirmed once the item appears in your loadout, and the Wrench slots into a quick slot rather than taking up your Spec Item space.

How to repair a damaged vehicle in the field

Repairs happen part by part, not as one bar that refills. Walk around the vehicle and the HUD marks each damaged component with its own icon — a wheel icon for a blown tire, an engine icon on the front grille. Approach on foot and those prompts appear next to the usual driver and passenger entry options.

Vehicle interaction prompt showing ENTER Passenger with open seats on a jeep — Walking up to a vehicle brings up its interaction prompts, including the passenger seats. Image: BULKHEAD

Get the vehicle out of contact first. A stationary tank or a grounded helicopter is an easy target, so break line of sight before you start working on it.

First-person view of a player approaching an armored vehicle parked in an industrial yard — Approaching a parked vehicle on foot before starting repairs. Image: BULKHEAD

Equip the repair tool. With the Wrench in a quick slot, pressing 3 pulls it out.

Aim at a damaged component until its repair prompt appears, then hold the use button. A flat tire is the most obvious one — stand beside the wheel, look at it, and hold until it re-inflates.

Repair prompt highlighted on a vehicle's rear wheel while using the wrench — The repair prompt on a flat rear wheel, with the wrench in hand. Image: BULKHEAD

Move to the next icon and repeat. The engine is repaired from the front grille, and the smoke stops once that component is fixed.

Engine repair prompt highlighted on the front of a vehicle during a wrench repair — Repairing the engine from the front of the vehicle clears the smoke. Image: BULKHEAD

You know it worked when the damage icon disappears from that part and the visible damage goes with it — the tire fills out, the smoke stops, and the vehicle handles normally again.

Repair vehicles at base and at a FOB repair station

Hand tools are not the only option. Garage vendors at your faction base handle repairs, refuelling and vehicle purchases, and a repair area at base will fix a vehicle automatically once it is parked there. That also covers the annoying case of a rolled vehicle: flip it back onto its wheels first, then bring it in.

Forward repairs run on Mechanical Supplies, which are the resource vehicle repair consumes at a FOB. The repair station has to be built inside the FOB radius and someone has to keep it stocked. Parking next to an empty station does nothing.

Mechanical Supplies cover repairs.
Fuel Supplies cover refuelling, and a Fuel Can bought from the vendor works in the field.
Ammo Supplies cover ammunition, and vehicle weapons are not always loaded on purchase.

They are separate cargo types, so ask for the right one. A fully repaired tank with no fuel and no ammunition is still parked.

Repair the team spawn vehicle’s satellite dish

The armoured spawn vehicle is the one repair job worth dropping everything for. Its weak point is the satellite dish on the roof, and once that is destroyed the vehicle stops working as a deployment point until it is fixed. Any repair tool will do the job.

An enemy spawn vehicle carries a bounty of roughly $15,000, so expect the other teams to keep attacking yours rather than ignoring it once the dish comes back online.

There is a point where repairing stops being the right call. If the service FOB is under sustained fire, or the vehicle is stranded deep in enemy territory, walking away costs less than feeding more kit into the recovery. Everywhere else, a tool in the quick slot and a couple of minutes behind cover is the difference between a vehicle that keeps earning and another purchase out of a balance that never resets.