how do i save leaderstats?

Instead of using leaderstats for displaying that a car has been bought one simple way to save that data would be to have a folder, probably in the player, and when a car is purchased, create some kind of value referencing the car, either a string value for the cars name/is or an object value referencing the car if it’s in replicated storage or something. The best way though would be to reference the cars with strings because that’s what we will have to do for the datastores. Assuming we’re using string values these are basically how we would convert the roblox objects in the folder into datastore data:

-- function for loading the players car data
function LoadCarDataFromTable(player,t)
      -- get the folder in which the player will have their car data stored
      local folder = player:FindFirstChild(“PurchasedCars”)
      if not folder then -- create a new folder if this is the first time
            local folder = Instance.new(“Folder”)
            folder.Name = “PurchasedCars”
            folder.Parent = player
      end
      local data = t.PurchasedCars
      for i,CarId in pairs (data) do
            -- here we create new string values for each car owners and put them in the folder
            local sv = Instance.new(“StringValue”)
            sv.Name = CarId
            sv.Value = CarId
            sv.Parent = folder
      end
end
-- function for saving the players car data
function AddCarDataToTable(player,t)
      local folder = player:FindFirstChild(“PurchasedCars”)
      localCarData = {}
      if folder then
            for i,v in pairs (folder:GetChildren())do
                  table.insert(CarData,v)
            end
      end
      t.PurchasedCars = CarData
end

So these two functions have an input of the player and the data table. With the second function though it is saving a new car table into that data table because usually datastorea are used for more than just one piece of data. You would then save that data or when you are getting data you would use it in the function that loads it into the folder. Anyways I’m assuming you know how to use data stores and how to save and retrieve data. If not get started by reading this

Edit: Im on mobile so I’m assuming the indenting issues are just on my end but please tell me if they aren’t.