Can vehicles just disappear for days?

[Lorenzo_VI 8]

So me and my friends managed to get hold of some vehicles on a quieter server. We brought them to a hiding place that was suitable enough. The next day we log in and they are gone. This seems quite strange as the hiding place is well out of the way of anything, in a forest and also that a server crash had happened just after we finished up on the server. We finished at about 2 am and when relogging in at midday the server was down. We then managed to log into the server at 4ish and the vehicles were gone. We assumed they had been found and taken elsewhere. Yet later that week, about 4 days after said events they just reappeared in the place we had left them, in the positions we had left them, with the gear we had left them. Yay we thought!

We had some fun with them for 2 days, found a new hiding place. I logged in on the third day to find no vehicles, no tents (we had set up 3) and a burnt out motorcycle in the position we had actually left the motorcycle. Again, it can't have been more than 16 hours since we had left them and the tents. 5 hours of this time was pitch black and also the time irl was dead of night. There cannot have been more than 4 people on the server at one time for the time. This second disappearance occurred a week after the first, and what confuses me is that the tents were all gone as well. Just vanished.

Basically do we know of any disappearing acts that vehicles pull for 3-4 days at a time. It is entirely possible someone stumbled across our camp with nvgs in the middle of nowhere, but to move all that gear they must have needed about 5 people or worked on it all night. Even then is it possible to remove tents entirely? I've tried and I cant get it to work :P I have my suspicions it is a bug but want to be sure

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

You can run over tents and flatten them.

[Polkaman 60]

For the first incident, people could have found the vehicles and taken them but didn't save them so they returned to where you hid them after a server restart

[Lorenzo_VI 8]

Polka is that possible after 4 days? I mean the server should restart every 6 hours or so no?

Fraggle, we had one run over tent but that was there previously (and was still there after the second disappearance), the rest have just disappeared.

[jesquik 75]

Vehicles can not show up on certain restarts. It happens at least once a day on the server I play on.

[Slyguy65 499]

So me and my friends managed to get hold of some vehicles on a quieter server. We brought them to a hiding place that was suitable enough. The next day we log in and they are gone. This seems quite strange as the hiding place is well out of the way of anything, in a forest and also that a server crash had happened just after we finished up on the server. We finished at about 2 am and when relogging in at midday the server was down. We then managed to log into the server at 4ish and the vehicles were gone. We assumed they had been found and taken elsewhere. Yet later that week, about 4 days after said events they just reappeared in the place we had left them, in the positions we had left them, with the gear we had left them. Yay we thought!

We had some fun with them for 2 days, found a new hiding place. I logged in on the third day to find no vehicles, no tents (we had set up 3) and a burnt out motorcycle in the position we had actually left the motorcycle. Again, it can't have been more than 16 hours since we had left them and the tents. 5 hours of this time was pitch black and also the time irl was dead of night. There cannot have been more than 4 people on the server at one time for the time. This second disappearance occurred a week after the first, and what confuses me is that the tents were all gone as well. Just vanished.

Basically do we know of any disappearing acts that vehicles pull for 3-4 days at a time. It is entirely possible someone stumbled across our camp with nvgs in the middle of nowhere, but to move all that gear they must have needed about 5 people or worked on it all night. Even then is it possible to remove tents entirely? I've tried and I cant get it to work :P I have my suspicions it is a bug but want to be sure

With this game who knows...but most likely it was the game...i have (tried to) set up so many tents/bases just to have them vanish the next day...a bus an ATV and a jeep...with 2 tents full of gear in one night...in the middle of no where...just vanish plus other times ive had my camps just erase all the loot in the tent....the game is so fucked right now with the "save" system it has.

[Overdriven 1]

Yeah I'm one of his mates and it's a pain. It's possible this second time they have been taken by some people but the first time they reappeared in the same spot after 4 days of not being there and this same time has happened on the exact same day 1 week later.

This is on UK 14 btw in case any server admins from there are floating around.

[1anton12345 8]

my vehicle disappeared and the next day it was back.. lol lucky i had 2 as50 in it