Why is my script not working? Nothing showing in the Output

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So when I was trying to make a car game in Roblox Studio, I watched the tutorial, and I double checked the script. But that’s until I realized there isn’t any errors in the output. I tried my best to fix it and the script still won’t work, I also tried WaitForChild() the script still doesn’t work
Here’s the code I tried…

local carparams = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("CarPurchaseSystem"):WaitForChild("GetCarParams"):InvokeServer(script.Parent.Name)
local image = script.Parent:WaitForChild("CarImage")
local showpurchaseframe = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("ShowPurchaseFrame")

script.Parent.CarName.Text = carparams.Name
script.Parent.Cost.Text = carparams.Cost

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	showpurchaseframe:Fire(carparams.Name,carparams.Cost,carparams.Power,script.Parent.CarImage)
end)
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Maybe some items don’t exist at all. Update it with:

local carparams = game.ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("CarPurchaseSystem"):WaitForChild("GetCarParams"):InvokeServer(script.Parent.Name)
print(carparams)
local image = script.Parent:WaitForChild("CarImage")
print(image)
local showpurchaseframe = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent:WaitForChild("ShowPurchaseFrame")
print(showpurchaseframe)

script.Parent.CarName.Text = carparams.Name
script.Parent.Cost.Text = carparams.Cost

script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	showpurchaseframe:Fire(carparams.Name,carparams.Cost,carparams.Power,script.Parent.CarImage)
end)

Does it show anything?

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Script isn’t working because in the first line you are using remote function’s :InvokeServer() method. This method yields (pauses) the script until it gets a response from the server.

You said it was from the tutorial, so the tutorial should have another script that is server sided [regular script in SeverScriptService for example] which should have something like this

local carParams = game.ReplicatedStorage.CarPurchaseSystem.GetCarParams

carParams.OnServerInvoke = function(player, name)
	--Some logic here
	return {
		Name = "Some name",
		Cost = 123,
		Power = 123
	} -- I assumed the returned value structure based on the script You provided
end

Without any server-sided script that binds a function to that remote function [carParams.OnServerInvoke = function() end] the client script waits indefinetly for response that’s never gonna get.