WARDOGS How to Repair a Tank: Wrench, Drills, FOB Radius

A tracked vehicle in WARDOGS does not die in one hit — it degrades. One wheel goes, then the engine, then the turret stops traversing, and the crew is sitting in an expensive box that no longer moves. So the question is not whether you will need a repair but which of the game’s two repair systems you are using, because they are completely different: one is a tool in your hands, the other is a building you have to construct before it exists.

Most guides describe only one of them. This page documents both from the same set of recordings, plus the part almost nobody checks — which compartment is actually broken.

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PazarGamingGuides — How to Repair Vehicles in Wardogs (98-second tool walkthrough) — YouTube

PazarGamingGuides — How to Repair Vehicles in Wardogs (98-second tool walkthrough)

Every screenshot below was read at full resolution before its caption was written. No channel logo, face or burned-in caption from any source appears on this page.

Step 1: Find Out Which Compartment Is Broken

Before you buy anything, look at the vehicle. WARDOGS marks each damaged part with its own icon, and the icon turns red when that compartment is gone.

Step 1 (Timestamp: 1:15) — Smoke plus a red wheel marker. The intact wheels still show their grey icons, so the damage list is per-compartment, not per-vehicle.

That distinction matters in a fight. A mobility kill and a firepower kill are different repairs, and the anti-tank guide documents the flip side: a track hit starts self-healing the moment the shooter stops firing, while a rear engine hit shuts the engine off until a crewman fixes it.

Watch the damaged vehicle and its red marker (1:15)

Step 2: Buy a Repair Tool in the TOOLS Row

Open the Equipment Vendor — the same stall that sells your guns — and go to the EQUIPMENT tab. Under it sits a row of filter chips: LAUNCHERS · MEDICAL · BUILDING · RECON · TOOLS · TACTICAL. TOOLS is where the repair gear lives.

Step 2 (Timestamp: 0:45) — Three repair tools and a fuel can, in the same place. Players look for a “repair” category and never find one because it is a filter chip inside the gun menu.

Note what is not here: no Engineer-exclusive item, no class requirement printed on the row itself. Any class can carry a wrench.

Step 3: Pick the Right Tool — Wrench or Drill

The two tooltips tell you exactly what each tool trades away.

Step 3 (Timestamp: 0:31) — The wrench works on every vehicle and needs nothing but your hands. Its cost is time.

Step 3 (Timestamp: 0:50) — Faster, and it costs you two things the wrench does not ask for: a spec-item slot and a battery supply line. 1.5 kg is the least of it.

Watch the wrench and drill tooltips (0:31) · Watch the light drill card (0:50)

Step 4: Equip It and Aim at the Damaged Part

The source commentary walks the menu path: Equipment Vendor → your overview → the third slot, the specialist slot → pick the vehicle repair item → buy → press 3 to pull it into your hands.

Step 4 (Timestamp: 1:31) — The Repair prompt only appears when the reticle is on a damaged component. Aim at the part, not at the vehicle.

This is where tank crews get it wrong: repairing is per component. Walk around the hull and fix each red marker; one long interaction on the front does nothing for a destroyed track.

Step 5: Hold Until the Icon Goes Grey

Step 5 (Timestamp: 1:35) — The reward is quiet: the red marker drops out, the smoke stops, and the vehicle is drivable again.

Watch the repair completing (1:31)

Step 6: Or Just Drive Home — the FOB Repair Radius

The second system needs no tool at all.

Step 6 (Timestamp: 0:22) — The bar under the vehicle is red. The source’s point in 32 seconds: you do not have to fix it by hand at all.

Step 6 (Timestamp: 0:27) — Parked in the circle, engine still running, repairing on its own. “Even while driving,” as the clip puts it, “this vehicle will be repaired.”

That is the tactical difference between the two methods. The wrench is a forward repair — you do it under fire, next to the objective. The FOB radius is a rear repair — it costs you the drive home, and the drive home is where spawn vehicles and anti-tank squads wait.

Step 7: Build a Repair Station So the Radius Exists

None of the above works unless someone on your team has built the station.

Step 7 (Timestamp: 1:01) — The game will not explain this to you: you cannot stack repair stations. One per FOB, then the radius is simply on.

The build path, from the source recording: get a large hammer (buyable at the item store, or lifted out of a FOB’s own stock — players routinely leave hammers in bases for under-leveled teammates), hold right click, press F until the repair station appears in the build cycle, find a spot inside the FOB, hold left click. The commentary puts the hammer’s own requirement at Scout level 8.

Watch the repair station placement limit (1:01)

Step 8: What Repairs Actually Cost You

Three ledgers, and only one of them is readable on screen:

That last row is the honest limit of this page. Several players have reported that repairing costs more than it gives back, and no recording we have checked shows the transaction on screen. If you have footage of the balance moving during a repair, the numbers on our money-making guide and vehicles guide are where it belongs.

Repair Reference

Rules of Thumb

1. Read the icons before you spend the trip. One red marker means one short repair; four means you are driving home.
2. Carry the wrench even if you never use it. It is the only repair that works away from base, and the tank guide has the crew seats and gunnery that keep you alive long enough to need it.
3. Drills are a slot decision. The light drill is only 1.5 kg, but it occupies the SPEC. ITEM slot and drags a battery supply line behind it — the weight is not the cost, the slot is.
4. Buy the tools as a squad job. Repair tools pay Support XP, the same track that gates the RPG — see the XP leveling guide.
5. Build the station early, not when it is needed. The FOB building guide covers the vendor path; the station has to exist before the radius does.
6. Keep the mechanical counter non-empty. The loop is in the logistics guide and the resource itself in the mechanical parts guide.
7. Do not budget a repair you cannot price. Every figure on this page that is not on-screen is labelled, and the cash return is not.

Repair tools, tooltips, the per-compartment damage marker, the Repair prompt, the FOB auto-repair radius and the EXCEEDS FOB LIMIT message were read directly off the screen in PazarGamingGuides’ 98-second tool walkthrough, Quick Tips’ 79-second repair-station build, and TimeToFixThis!’ 32-second quad-bike clip. The station’s Scout-level-8 hammer requirement, its per-FOB purpose, and the tires/tracks/engine/fuel-tank breakdown of what it fixes come from Mattzila 999’s 22-minute supplies commentary, which we used as a text source only — that video carries burned-in captions and none of its footage appears here. Tool prices are deliberately unquoted: the vendor in our footage is a test-range screen where every card reads $0. Early Access moves fast — re-check the TOOLS row after each balance patch.