# isVehicleBackfireEnabled (Client)

> Tells whether a vehicle lets out flames from its exhaust by itself.

- **Platform**: MY Multiplayer (MYMP)
- **Kind**: Lua Function
- **Side**: Client
- **Category**: Vehicle looks
- **URL**: https://wiki.mymp.gg/en/isVehicleBackfireEnabled

## Syntax

```lua
bool isVehicleBackfireEnabled(vehicle vehicle)
```

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `vehicle` | `vehicle` | The vehicle. |

## Returns

`true` if the automatic flames are on, `false` if they are off or the vehicle is not streamed in.

## Example

```lua
local vehicle = getPedOccupiedVehicle(localPlayer)
if vehicle then
    outputDebugString("backfire: " .. tostring(isVehicleBackfireEnabled(vehicle)))
end
```

## See also

- [setVehicleBackfireEnabled (Client)](https://wiki.mymp.gg/en/setVehicleBackfireEnabled.md): Turns on or off the flames that come out of a vehicle's exhaust by themselves when lifting off the throttle at high revs or shifting up.
- [triggerVehicleBackfire (Client)](https://wiki.mymp.gg/en/triggerVehicleBackfire.md): Makes a small flame come out of each of a vehicle's exhausts, once.