Vehicle Studio guide

FiveM Exhaust Tips: Add an Exhaust to Any Car

To add an exhaust to a FiveM car you need two things: the tip you see and the exhaust bone the game uses for flames and backfire. The FiveMRides Vehicle Studio adds missing exhaust bones, moves misplaced ones onto the tips, and offers a library of six tip styles (round single to quad, oval, slash, rally, side exit, burner). In game, a test effect played on the bones showed flames from the side tube and the rear pipe of a pickup. A real flame or backfire resource has not been tested with the bones yet.

By FiveMRides. Updated November 8, 2026. Tested on our own FiveM test server on a few cars each (rear window bars, partition and MDT laptop, brake calipers, drift cage and drift on a Supra and a GT86, wraps, stance camber and garage levels and an exhaust test effect were seen in game). Gun rack, radio, antennas, K9 box, harness, handbrake lever, window net and flames from a real flame resource are not verified in game. Other cars, other servers and GTA V Enhanced have not been tested.

What tips can I fit?

The tips are our own procedural shapes at four levels of detail. Placement is measured on the car: rear tips go on the car’s own exhaust pipes (found from its exhaust bones), one tip per pipe, sized to slide inside each opening, with the mouth a few centimetres behind it. On a car with no pipe at all they go under the rear bumper as a best guess, and the Studio says so before you build. A side exit goes ahead of the rear wheel on the outermost low surface. You can nudge the result with a position and rotation offset. Titanium (the burnt blue to gold gradient) is not offered, because its look in the game engine has not been checked.

Do the flames come out of the new tips?

That depends on the exhaust bones, which is the subject of the reference page GTA 5 exhaust bones: why FiveM cars have no flames. The Studio places the bones on the mouths of the tips you add, or on the pipe openings it finds on the car. In game, on a pickup, a test command that plays the game’s backfire effect at every bone showed flames from the side tube and the rear pipe, and a marker ball sat inside the pipes. The direction convention was read from existing cars. We have not tested pops with a flame resource, so we do not promise them.

Why is the tip always built in when bones move?

On our first pickup build the side exit was a tuning part while the bones had been moved for good: smoke came out of the side with no tip there. So the rule is simple. If you keep the bones where they are, the tip can be always on, an extra or a tuning shop part. If you move the bones (tips, auto or manual mode), the tip is always built in, and the extra and tuning options are locked with the line “Moved bones: the tip is built into the car”. The server enforces the same rule.

What about the tips the car already has?

Tips are added geometry. The car’s own tips cannot be removed or hollowed, so on a car that already shows tips the new ones go into those pipes and stick out of them: on an M5 with four pipes, the build fitted four tips, one in each pipe (checked in game). If the set has fewer tips than the car has pipes, the outer pipes get them and the Studio tells you. The bones-only mode fixes flames on a car that looks right but has no bones, with no geometry added.

How do I add an exhaust to a FiveM car?

1. Upload your car. Open the Vehicle Studio and upload one vehicle you have the right to modify.
2. Open the Exhaust tool. Pick it in the left rail. It first reports the exhaust bones the car already has and the pipe openings it detects. Choose the bone mode: keep, tips, auto or manual.
3. Pick a tip style. Or choose bones only. Check it from behind and from the side in the 3D view.
4. Confirm the bones. Accept the detected positions or click the car to place each bone by hand with a direction (back, left, right, down, up or free). Auto mode is a best guess and misses some tips.
5. Build and install. Download one resource, add it to your server, and test flames with your flame resource of choice.

Limits

• Seen in game on one pickup: the side tube, the bone marker and a test backfire effect. Other cars, a real flame or pop resource and titanium are not verified in game.
• The opening detector is a proposal. It found the openings of the test SUV and is right on several catalogue cars, but misses shallow tips or tips closed behind the bumper lip. Manual positions are the reliable path.
• A toggled tip (extra or tuning shop) is possible only with the bones left where they are. Moved bones force the tip to be always on.
• No sound is added. Engine sound is a separate resource.
• Flames and backfire need a resource or game setting that uses the bones. The Studio does not ship one. The commands in our test pack only check positions.
• Tips are generic with no brand marks and no collision.

Exhaust questions

How do I add exhaust tips to a FiveM car?

Add a tip mesh to the car files and, for flames, an exhaust bone at the same place. The Vehicle Studio exhaust tool does both.

Can I choose single, dual or quad?

Yes. The round style does one to four tips; slash and burner also do up to four or two.

Does it replace the stock tips?

No. It adds tips into the stock pipes, sized to fit them, so the new tips stick out of the car’s own. The stock tips stay behind them.

Do players see it in the tuning shop?

It can be a tuning shop part, an extra (1 to 12) or always on, at your choice, as long as the bones are not moved. With moved bones the tip is always on.

Does it change the engine sound?

No. Sound is a separate audio resource.

Does it work on bikes?

We have not tested it on bikes. The cars in our survey were cars and one ATV.

Can it add flames to a car that has none?

It adds the bones that flame resources need. In game a test effect showed flames at the bones; we have not tried a flame resource yet.

How much does it cost?

It is free for everyone. The preview is free too.