How do you customise your car in GTA 6?

Modified cars turn up in frame after frame of the official material, which is a statement about the game even before anyone opens a menu. Wraps, stance, wheels, lighting: all of it is on screen, and all of it is on cars the player is looking at rather than building. This page is the inventory of what is shown, and the last game’s shop as the reference.

What the material shows

At 26:06 of the Extended Look a waterfront lot holds a row of cars, the two nearest facing out towards the camera. The nearest is a black saloon in a full wrap with HAWX along the window band and MANOR across the bonnet; behind it a sedan in black and white dazzle stripes with blue and red accents, and behind that a dark car with green graffiti lettering across its flank. Three cars, three liveries, on one lot. At 0:27 of Trailer 1 a pale blue lowrider sits just above the road at a street meet with magenta, white and teal lines airbrushed down its rear flank, in a row of cars with a magenta coupe beyond it.

Lighting is the third thing. At 0:45 of the same trailer the car at the centre of a street takeover is lit magenta from underneath. That is lighting the last game launched without: neon kits reached Los Santos Customs only with the re-release for newer consoles and PC, in the story as well as online. Where any of it comes from is harder to see. The Ultimate Edition bundle on Rockstar’s media page has three renders filed under Rideout Customs: one of a workshop, with a yellow coupe up on axle stands, a mechanic under it and a red saloon on a lift behind, and two of a two-door in speckled metal-flake paint on large gold rims, one of them looking into its red interior. Whether the player uses the shop, a render does not say. None of the frames we have shows a customisation menu, a price or a respray booth.

Custom paint is on the street in the Launch Trailer too. At 0:19 three men ride in a green convertible with a spider-web airbrush along its flank, the lines picked out in yellow and gold. No maker’s name is legible, so the car is described here and not named.

What nobody knows

• Where cars are modified, whether Rideout Customs is one of those places, and whether there is one chain or many.
• What can be changed: paint, wraps, wheels, stance, hydraulics, lights, performance.
• What any of it costs, and whether a wrap survives a respray.
• Whether a body shop still shakes the police, and whether it clears the car icon in the wanted display.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction. Grand Theft Auto V had one chain, Los Santos Customs, which sold paint, wheels and body kits, and engine, brake and transmission upgrades, and repaired what you drove in. Driving into one, the GTA Wiki notes, lost any wanted level as long as the police had not seen you approach, and the garage door stayed shut if they had. Neon and underglow were not in the shop at launch and came with the re-release, in the story as well as online; liveries were on offer only for select vehicles, mostly racing ones.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: the shops, the menu, the prices and what a respray does to a chase, each with the date it was tested. Until then the short answer at the top stands.