300 Paint Limit Workaround

Forza Horizon Forza Horizon 4
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Just come up with and tested a workaround to the 300 paint limit that you can have.

  1. Make sure you have one free paint/design slot, then paint your car of choice and once completed, save it to the car.
  2. Put the car up for sale in the auction house at maximum start price and buyout for 1hr (to minimise the chances of someone buying it).
  3. As soon as the car is in the auction house, you can then go to your design catalogue and delete the design on the car you just auctioned.
  4. When the car doesn’t sell, you reclaim it and hey presto, you have your car back with design intact, but no longer taking up a space in your catalogue.

I’ve tested this a couple of times and it definitely works for allowing you to paint more than 300 cars in your garage, albeit it’s quite a slow workaround and also limited by the auction house limits.

However, what it doesn’t help is the shared design limit. It’s also only worth doing on cars that you know are unlikely to sell in the auction house.

Hope this helps some people.

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Thanks, this is really great tip. Sometimes can even make little profit if somebody buy those cars, just need to check that dont sell nothing super rare car. And everybody who download tunes you can go to your tunes after you have install tune and delete tune right away and it still stay in car, that way can get tune on every car. Even tho that dont help either that you cant share more than 300 tunes.

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Yea I did this back in fh3. It’s smart just make sure it’s not a rare car that people want

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Further testing has shown a risk free workaround for the paint limit.

Once you hit your Auction house limit (I think it’s something like 24 cars can be listed per 24 hours), you can still keep auctioning each car and even though it will fail to list in the auction house, it still seems to reset the status of the livery. I’ve literally just spent 2 hours failing to list every car in my garage so that I could delete all my offline designs from my catalogue. I now have something like 370 cars, all uniquely painted, but with only 20 or so designs saved in my catalogue with space for 280 more.

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Doesn’t this mean the paints are no longer available to edit though?

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From what I’ve tested the paintjobs aren’t locked so are available to edit, although obviously if you do then edit them, you’ll have to save any changes which will once again count as one of your saved designs.

The way it seems to be working is that the moment the car is listed in the auction house (even if it fails to list), the game declassifies it as your car, so when it goes back in your garage, it’s as a new car and whatever paint was on it is now counted as the standard paint.

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I don’t wanna’ bump a 10 day+ thread unneccesarily. This 300 paint limit feels really backwards, since not everyone cares about doing more than change the color/type paint.

Custom vinyls/stickers are still low-res textures compared to default liveries, I couldn’t be bothered with them for that reason alone.

Just because I’ve never hit that limit in any Forza so far, doesn’t mean it’s “OK” by me either. It’s not.

I presume this limit applies to previous Forzas also…?

Thanks for the workaround tip by OP👍

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