TransFender

Logo of Transfender in GTA San Andreas.

TransFender is an automobile customization shop in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that allows the player to customized various standard road vehicles in the game.

Locations

There are 3 TransFender locations throughout San Andreas, with one in each major city:

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  Los Santos: In Temple, next to the Temple Pay 'n' Spray.

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  San Fierro: In Doherty, around the side of Wang Cars (a Rumpo sporting the company logo also pictured).

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  Las Venturas: At the east end of the Come-A-Lot area.

Supported vehicles

Vehicles that can be modified at TransFender encompassed a limited but nevertheless large number of standard civilian road vehicles that are not classified as tuners (which can only be modified at Wheel Arch Angels garage in San Fierro) or lowriders (which can only be modified at Loco Low Co. in Los Santos). Motorcycles and bicycles, industrial vehicles and law enforcement vehicles are typically unacceptable.

Vehicles customizable at TransFender include the following:

Admiral Alpha Banshee Blista Compact Bobcat Bravura Buccaneer Buffalo Bullet Cabbie Cadrona Cheetah Clover Club Comet Elegant

Emperor Esperanto Euros Feltzer Fortune Glendale Greenwood Hermes Huntley Hustler Infernus Intruder Landstalker Majestic Manana Merit

Mesa Moonbeam Nebula Oceanic Perennial Phoenix Picador Premier Previon Primo Rancher Regina Romero Sabre Sentinel Solair

Stallion Stafford Stretch Sunrise Super GT Tampa Taxi Turismo Vincent Virgo Walton Washington Willard Windsor ZR-350

Modifications

The range of modifications available for vehicles at TransFender depend on the vehicle's model.

Basic options, including body colors, nitrous boasts, wheels, car stereos and hydraulics, are available for all vehicles. However, other groups of parts are only exclusive to certain classes of vehicles, such as the "Lights" option that add fog lights, which is available only to off-road vehicles such as the Bobcat and Landstalker. "Body kit" parts that enhance a vehicle's speedy appearance, including hood scoops, hood vents, roof scoops, spoilers and side skirts, are usually reserved for cars (both two doors or four doors), although these too are unavailable for a handful of cars. Even so, the number of parts available for each option are usually limited to a select few, depending on the vehicle model. The "Exhaust" option is available for most road vehicles, but unavailable for the same vehicles deprived of the aforementioned body kit parts.

For a more detailed range of parts for each vehicle, see the vehicles' respectable pages.

• A modified Sunrise at a TransFender, illustrating a vehicle with a wider range of "body kit" parts.

  A modified Sunrise at a TransFender, illustrating a vehicle with a wider range of "body kit" parts.

• A modified Mesa, illustrating a vehicle with a more limited selection, but with specialized "Light" options that includes fog lights in the front.

  A modified Mesa, illustrating a vehicle with a more limited selection, but with specialized "Light" options that includes fog lights in the front.

• A modified Oceanic that illustrates a lower end range of parts for a select few cars.

  A modified Oceanic that illustrates a lower end range of parts for a select few cars.

List

The following lists a complete range of parts available for all vehicles at TransFender:

Customization	Options
Color	Car color 1 (63 different colors available) - $150 Car color 2 (63 different colors available) - $150
Hood scoops	Champ - $100 Fury - $150 Oval - $150 Race - $220 Worx - $250
Hood vents	Oval - $150 Square - $100
Exhausts	Small - $150 Medium - $200 Large - $250 Twin - $300 Upswept - $400
(Fog) lights	Round - $100 Square - $50
Nitro	2x - $200 5x - $500 10x - $1000
Roof	Roof Scoop - $80
Spoilers	Alpha - $250 Champ - $400 Drag - $200 Fury - $350 Pro - $400 Race - $500 Win - $550 Worx - $200
Side skirts	Side Skirt - $500
Wheels	Access - $1140 Ahab - $1000 Atomic - $770 Grove - $1230 Import - $820 Mega - $1030 Off Road Wheel - $1000 Twist - $1200 Virtual - $620 Wires - $1560
Car audio	Bass Boost - $100
Hydraulics	Hydraulics - $1500

Notes

• Changing color actually works the same as a Pay 'n' Spray visit (repair car and remove wanted level). However, the cost of each individual color change is consistently $150, 50% higher than a Pay 'n' Spray service, regardless of whether or not the car is damaged to begin with or the player has a wanted level.
• At the Las Venturas TransFender, all modifications except Color cost 20% more than at other TransFenders in San Andreas, much like all other stores in the city, such as the Ammu-Nation and fast-food restaurants get the same overpricing.
• There is a bug with the TransFender in Las Venturas in the PlayStation 2 version, where driving a Moonbeam into the TransFender will allow you to modify the vehicle as normal, but once you exit the TransFender modification screen and attempt to leave, the vehicle will spawn on top of the garage but underneath the actual roof, making it impossible to drive the vehicle out and also trapping the player inside the TransFender. The only way to escape is for the player to kill themselves by damaging the Moonbeam enough to blow it up and kill the player, or re-loading the game's save file, or the game itself. The bug is not present in PC version.
• A rare glitch allows you to control your car inside mod garages in GTA San Andreas, including TransFender, which makes certain choices like choosing a color on the palette a little touchy.

Trivia

• The TransFender name is a play on the word transgender, as further evidenced by the slogan "body swap shop" (a transgendered person might be seen as "swapping" his or her body for that of another gender, hence the moniker).

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Auto Limbo in GTA IV, with the updated TransFender logo on the left hand side.

• Although user-defined vehicle customizations are no longer possible in Grand Theft Auto IV, the TransFender name is featured again as minor detailing on the the Auto Limbo Pay 'n' Spray. Oddly, the TransFender logo that appears on Auto Limbo claims the company was established in 2004, twelve years after the events of GTA San Andreas took place. However, this could be a reference to 2004 being the release date of GTA San Andreas.

See also

• Loco Low Co.
• Wheel Arch Angels
• The Pay 'n' Spray spray shop