Vehicles · high severity · found in the console
A vehicle's meta file was rejected by the game
The server console prints a line like this.
What the console says
Failed to parse resources:/<resource>/data/<car>/<file> Failed to load DLC handling file resources:/<resource>/data/<car>/handling.meta
What it means
<car> in <resource> has a meta the game refused to load. That car is running on defaults, or not properly at all.
How to fix it
- Open the named .meta and check it is valid XML. One unclosed tag or a bare & rejects the entire file — the game does not partially load it.
- Know what was lost: carvariations.meta failing costs the car its colours and modkits; vehicles.meta failing can stop it spawning correctly; handling.meta failing means it drives on defaults.
- Compare against a working car in the same pack. Malformed metas almost always arrive that way from the pack rather than from your own edits.
- Fix it or pull the car. Nothing in-game tells a player anything is wrong.
When it is not this
This failure is SILENT in-game — the car usually still spawns, it is just wrong. Do not dismiss it because nobody has complained; nobody will. The opposite trap: a car you already removed leaves these lines in old logs, so confirm the car is still in the fleet before spending time on it.