I’ve just downloaded forza horizon 2 on games with gold and purchased a car pack but it does not show up in my garage and says already purchased or temporarily unavailable feeling ripped off.
You might try posting this in the Horizon 2 forums. This is for Horizon 3. But I think you will find over there that the servers for almost all of the community stuff, designs, DLC cars, are down and has been for days. Who knows when or if they are coming back.
DLC car packs are working fine. The problem is that there are two problems occurring simultaneously for new players. The first is that purchasing new cars is locked behind story progression, it’s been a while since I first played the game but I read somewhere that the ability to purchase new cars should happen after finishing the first showcase. The second is that the game prompts people to choose paints that were designed by the community, that worked fine as long as the servers were working, they are not now, so a regular color needs to be chosen (push A to dismiss the message and then Y to go where you can choose a regular color.)
The cars in the car packs don’t show up to the garage, you have to get them from the auto show, the first time that you get them they will be free. They are definitely working, I got the car pass about the week before last, was able to get all the cars. Two car packs last week, I was able to get the cars. And two car packs this Tuesday and I was able to get those as well.