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The tire iron is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
A one-handed blunt melee weapon once used for loosening nuts from car tires, now heavily rusted from age and made into a weapon in the post-War wasteland. It deals the third-lowest amount of critical hit damage along with the pool cue and has the third-lowest caps value of all blunt melee weapons along with the dress cane.
Special attack[]
The tire iron has a special Lights Out attack that does 125% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 8 more action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 30 | 27 | 1.11 |
| Lights Out | 50 | 37.5 | 35 | 1.07 |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Lights Out outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
Durability[]
The tire iron can successfully strike about 995 times from full condition before breaking.
