Pro Kit

The Pro Kits system is a new game-changing addition to Asphalt 8: Airborne that lets you break every limit on your favorite cars. This system was specially designed for the most serious racers out there, allowing them improve their cars beyond the previous “MAX” performance stats.

Any cars you’ve previously maxed out will keep their “MAX” icon. This means that you can still use them to participate in any event requiring a maxed-out car. The standard upgrades will allow your car to become “MAX”, but you’ll need to get every Pro Kits it to turn it “PRO”.

To unlock a Pro Kit, you need to collect and combine Cards which can be earned as in-game rewards or purchased in the Tuning Panel of the game. Participate in events or look for the Pro Boxes section to obtain a box of Cards. Note that combining cards cost a certain amount of Credits.

Pro Kits were introduced in the Winter update. The total amount of different Pro Kit cards in the game is 39. Out of these cards 18 are Common, 11 are Rare, and 10 are Legendary.

In most cases, one Pro Kit level gives the car a 9.4% performance boost, two levels 21.5%, three levels 36.1%, four levels 53%, and five levels 72.5%. Sometimes, it may not actually be 72.5% for the fifth level. A value called the "Forced Coefficient" may set this number lower than 72.5% if it is set below 100.0% and may also affect Elite Tuning performance changes.

Pro Kits Cards
There are three different types of Pro Kit cards:
 * 1) Parts cards (which consists of Tires, Suspension, Drivetrain, and Exhaust)
 * 2) Technology cards
 * 3) Engine cards

In order to make any Pro Kits upgrade the standard Parts card(s) and a certain amount of Credits are always needed concerning the vast majority of vehicles of the game - Ferrari Testarossa, Mazda Furai, Volkswagen W12, Toyota Supra RZ (Mark IV), and Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse are upgraded to PRO level entirely only with Engine cards + Credits. In addition to the Parts cards (not regarding the aforementioned four vehicles), also Technology cards and/or Engine cards might be required to perfom a Pro Kits upgrade. So, for example Koenigsegg One:1 Level 2 Suspension Pro Kit upgrade will require four S-Class Suspension cards, one Forced Induction V8 card, three Mid-Tech cards and to perform the Pro Kits upgrade.

Rarity
When random new Pro Kit cards are obtained, some cards are received more often than others; The Pro Kit cards are (also) categorized to Common, Rare and Legendary based on the probability of receiving the cards. The rarity of a card is coded to the background color of a card, so all Common cards have white/light blue background, Rare card background is purple and last yellow in the background indicates that the card is Legendary.

Odds
The probability of receiving a card (out of 100 random cards, a rough estimation based on playing the game (not including Specialist Kit Box or Champion Kit Box)):
 * Common: ~70 % (60-80 %)
 * Rare: ~20 % (15-25 %)
 * Legendary: ~10 % (5-15 %)

There are some reports on the Gameloft Forum that the spread inside a category or between the different types of cards isn't even - though some of the cases listed in the thread might simply be due to tough luck or too small sample size. On other forums, similar reports can be found: "'I've got 3 rotary engine for my Furai since winter update, and I've been through close to 1000 cards by now, so 0.3% chance' — Hippida"

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 * If the spread was even, the odds of receiving one particular Common card is 7/170 &asymp; 4.12 %.
 * If the spread was even, the odds of receiving one particular Rare card is 2/110 &asymp; 1.82 %.
 * If the spread was even, the odds of receiving one particular Legendary card is 1/80 = 1.25 %.

Parts Cards
Up to 5 Pro Kit levels of Tires, Suspension, Drivetrain and Exhaust can be unlocked (the amount of levels available varies car by car). All Parts cards are tied to the Car class.

Suspension

 * Pro Kit Suspension cards: Class D, C and B are Common cards. Class A and S are Rare cards.

Drivetrain

 * Pro Kit Drivetrain cards: Class D, C and B are Common cards. Class A and S are Rare cPro Kit Exhaust cards: Class D, C and B are Common cards. Class A and S are Rare cards.

Technology Cards
In addition to the standard cards required to perfom a Pro Kits upgrade, the following Technology cards might be required.

Engine Cards
Also Engine cards might be required to perfom a Pro Kits upgrade - usually at higher Pro Kits upgrade levels or with some high end cars. The Toyota Supra RZ (Mark IV), Ferrari Testarossa, Mazda Furai, Volkswagen W12, and Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, however, are upgraded to PRO level entirely only with Engine cards and Credits.

Pro Kit Box Prices
See the dedicated Pro Kit Boxes page for a complete listing of all the boxes ever sold. Note that while the Racer Kit and Expert Kit Boxes do not say anything about Rare or Legendary cards, it is still possible to get Rare or Legendary cards from these two boxes.

According to Driver 4118 Gameloft's official streamer bought and opened a Lunar New Year Box in early March 2015, and he got one Legendary Forced Induction V8 card and one Rare Mid-Tech card, so even a bigger amount of Rare or Legendary cards in a box won't guarantee that a certain card of that type is received.

Pro Kits Formulas
This document lists all the different Pro Kits Formulas. Use the filters in order to check the car that you are interested in. You can view this document on Google Spreadsheet too. This document is available temporarily. You will be able to review the Pro Kits Formulas on every car page soon.

Cards Needed for a PRO Vehicle
The table below depicts the total amounts of different cards needed when upgrading a vehicle to PRO level and the total cost of all Pro Kit upgrades. Some grand totals: This table is currently under construction.
 * The total amount of applicable Pro Kit cards in the game is 4,340 (= Common cards + Rare cards + Legendary cards = Parts cards + Technology cards + Engine cards).
 * Total cost of all Pro Kit upgrades of every vehicle in the game is.

Sources:
 * Prices from the xlsm-file (hidden sheet "Export_Recipe_Apply_Price") mentioned above
 * Cards from Googledoc document mentioned above
 * Conversions: The two Common Technology cards are named almost identically in the documents. In the table above, the following conversions to the Technology cards' names were made: Early Tech copy.pngInitial Tech.png
 * Early Research &rarr; adjustable wrench &rarr; Early Tech (Common)
 * Early Research 2 &rarr; the inverted L-shaped unmotorized unadjustable nut driver &rarr; Initial Tech (Common)
 * Mid Research &rarr; Mid-Tech (Rare)
 * Advanced Research &rarr; Advanced Tech (Legendary)

Pro Inventory




Your Cards will be stored in your Pro Inventory. You can obtain additional inventory slots if ever your inventory tends to fill up too quickly.

Pro Inventory Size

 * Total amount of Free Pro Inventory expansions available: 29
 * After earning a certain amount of Stars, the size of the Pro Inventory can be increased.
 * Min: 40 slots @ 0 Stars
 * Max: 185 slots @ 1,590 Stars
 * Total amount of IAP Pro Inventory expansions available: 60
 * Every expansion adds 20 slots to the Pro Inventory, the price increases from 35 Tokens to 895 Tokens.
 * Max: 1200 slots with 27,225 Tokens

Free Pro Inventory Expansions
Click on [Expand] to discover the size of the Pro Inventory at various Star Levels.

IAP Pro Inventory Expansions
Click on [Expand] to discover the complete price list.

How to improve a car with a Pro Kit card?
A good Pro Kit tutorial can be found inside the game [by clicking (i) on the Pro Kits page (you get a free Dodge Dart GT Pro Kit Tires upgrade during the process)]. There's also a Pro Kit Inventory Tutorial inside the game [Main Menu &rarr; Options &rarr; Tutorials &rarr; Pro Kit Inventory Tutorial]. Some advice can be found from the official Gameloft forum, too.
 * 1) Make sure your device is online
 * 2) Select a car you wish to improve
 * 3) Tuning &rarr; Pro Kits &rarr; Apply (requires some amount of Credits)

On the Pro Kits page

 * In order to make the next level-up all side-by-side listed Pro Kit cards are needed. The exact amount of cards required for each Pro Kit level-up are listed in the documents mentioned above (under the header "Pro Kits Formulas" - the table is a summary, but the files contain each and every Pro Kit level-up) and are soon to be found on every Car page, too.
 * The first number below a picture of a Pro Kit card indicates the amount of those cards in the Pro Inventory and the second number below the picture of a Pro Kit card (after the slash) indicates the amount of cards required to make the next level-up. So "4/2" below the picture of a Pro Kit card, for instance, would mean that there's four cards of that type in the Pro Inventory, but only two are required to make the next level-up.
 * The numbers after the name of the category follow the formula: "current Pro Kit level in this category" / "maximum Pro Kit level in this category". So "Suspension 4/5" would mean that currently the Pro Kit Suspension level of the car is 4 and there's still one more level available. After reaching the final Pro Kit level in a category a Pro-banner "You are at the top Pro Kit level!" is displayed instead of the cards. After reaching the final Pro Kit level in all the categories, on the Car selection page a PRO symbol is lit beside the (lit/unlit) MAX symbol.

Trivia

 * The "Forced-Induction V8" card has a bright glow.
 * The "Drivetrain - A" card glows also but less than the V8 Forced Induction
 * The i5 engine card has the same selling price of for Legendary rarity cards despite being a Common rarity card.
 * While the Pro Kit formulas for the Mazda RX-8 and Mazda Furai are correct in using Rotary engine cards, a more accurate name for the card would be Wankel engine as rotary engine can also refer to pistonless rotary engines
 * While the Pro Kits system is not directly brought over to Asphalt: Xtreme, its design of requiring cards to install the upgrade is still used.