Overview
Starting out in My Summer Car can be rugged you got limited reasources, and until you get jobs you got to utilize what you got. this guide will give you an idea how to get a jump into the game to where your not always broke, gas less, or starving while beginning.
The first day or first steps
Go to the catalog order the air/fuel mixture gauge
Next round up both the fuel canisters, sausage, beer, and of coarse the envelope from the catalog and toss em in the back of the van like this
Now where going to take a little trip to the main town cause we will need some things.
The town
By this time you made it town without rolling the van like I did when started driving the game. So heres a little list of items you will need to get the car running and as well some suggestions
1 Fan belt 295
4 Brake and clutch fluid 140
Motor oil 149
Coolant 195
779 will get you the things you need
500 – 1000 for the fuel
Food – I recommend sausage, milk, and of coarse the beer. so grab as much of that as you can and eat when you get into the red same with thirst or chug a beer so often.
Jobs and Income
ok there are possibly 5 job in all in this game they are sewage removal, firewood delivery, designated driver/taxi guy for drunks, the mechanic’s payback, and junk car hunt
Sewage Removal – 5 customers in all each pay 1200mk a job = 6000 mk when all done once a week they will possibly need this service
Firewood – 1 customer 3200mk once a week they will need
Drunkguy taxi service – 1 guy middle of night will call for ride give you 500-675mk when dropped off
not sure how often he calls
Fleetari’s Revenge job – dumping sewage on inspection building 10 bottles of booze(not income but nice to have)
Junk Car Hunt 2000-4500 3 in all
some of these jobs are reliable and some not more like extra boost in funds for your summer car
but with reliable jobs each week should bring you about 9000 – 10000 per game week possible wicked stash of finish boose incase you want get pickled up a night or so.
Going to Work
Ok the jobs are starting to come in via telephone and if you everything goes ok with the first step you should have plenty of food and beer to keep you up until these jobs come in well first thing are the wood and sewage jobs…..knock out the wood job when ever you can you wont get another wood job until next week and its 3200mk to go into your funding, but the sewage job let all 5 come up cause i will explain this tactic doing one or two is fine but i often get confused with em cause theres two in each town and one on the outside after the wood guy, but i found it easier and less gas consumption to do all 5 in one run and fuel up and go home than hitting one here and another. and the places are the same just the order to which they come in but heres a map of each point of interest of the regional map 
Perfect timing
For me timing is everything in this game so here are some tips dealing with the ingame time.
The time of the game is 12 times faster than real life. A whole in-game day is two hours of real life. You can also advance two hours in-game by saving your game.
The sun sets at 10:30 pm and one tick is every five seconds.
The game has some clocks that the player can use to check the time:
Inside your home in the kitchen there’s a clock with the shape of the area of Finland mounted on the wall.
You can install the clock gauge, located on your shelf in your garage, instead of the RPM gauge on the Satsuma.
Gifu truck has a combined clock inside with the speedometer.
Hours of Operation for key places
Fleetari Repair Shop is open from 8 am to 4 pm, Monday to Friday
Teimo’s Shop is open from 8 am to 8 pm everyday.
Pub Nappo is open from 8 pm to 2 am everyday.
The inspection office is open from 8 am to 4 pm, Monday to Friday.
The rally event is on from 10 am to 6 pm every Saturday.
them clocks are your friend….save time and money
on another not order the tachometer so you can ditch the RPM gauge and install the clock inplace
Fleetari’s Shop
The Mechanic Fleetari offer these services sometimes at 50% discount which save tones of money for work that may need to be done but heres a list of services at the full price but divide it half to find out what you pay in discount.
Service Cost (mk)
Wheel alignment 495
Brake check and repair 1,230
Engine repair 8,915
Engine adjustment 1,290
Motor tuning 4,065
Roll cage installation 5,500
Windshield replacement 2,110
Final gear change
4.286 (default) 1,350
3.700
3.900
4.110
4.415
4.625
Sheet metal and rust repair
Car body 8,750
Door (left or right) 1,230
Fender (left or right) 845
Hood 620
Bootlid 475
Bumper (front or back) 780
Grill 510
Paintjobs
Regular color 10,150
Metal color 18,950
Custom paint made by artist 21,700
Rim polish 635
Rim painting regular color 1,150
Rim painting metal color 1,925
My advice is he offers 50% discount take it and get twice the work done if needed and you get his muscle car to drive around with even know its not yours it does have half tank a fuel so if you happen to have a little fuel in the canister at home top her off with it, cause with all the things you need done for the satsuma this will more less your replacement car
Upgrades
Front lip spoiler 249
Duck tail spoiler 199
Rear wing 329
Fender Bodykit 1,195
Rear window louvers 219
Slick tires and wheels 3,615
Performance tires and spoke wheels 1,519
Performance tires and tuner wheels 1,579
Rally tires and wheels 3,249
Rally style steering wheel 349
Custom dashboard covers 295
Custom seat covers 139
Custom steering wheel covers 49
Air/Fuel mixture gauge 549
Gauges for oil, cooling and electricity 299
Racing tachometer 829
200W speakers 695
CD radio 1,395
Steel Headers 649
Exhaust 429
Racing muffler 169
Dual Carburetors w/ Air Filters 1,750
Aluminium radiator 1,215
4-Point Harness 645
Bucket Seats 5,095
350MM racing steering wheel 895
Over all cost and income
Expected cost for
Mechanic services – 92,675 mk for every service, 46338 at 50% discount
Catalog Upgrades – 27599
so total cost for your summer car would be 73,937 with mechanics discount and with out it 120,274
Income wise from wood and sewage weekly average 9200mk
Junk cars – bonus 9500mk for all 3
over 12 weeks of working including junk cars without discount
over 7 Weeks of working including junk cars with discount
Closing
Ok that was my total breakdown on my summer car far as economics and Logistics. Mind you these are rough estimates for everything that will be for the car but also like to add most of these services and parts are sometimes not necessary unless its something you want….and this guide will be improved with some screenshots and other images possible playthroughs over time. also like to thank [link] for sources that I used to make this guide.
On a final note I’m welcome to more imput on the related topic so please leave some comments