Your garage on SPOOLED is the private — or public, your call — record of every car you own and every mod you've done to each. It's a build tracker, a mod-cost ledger, a dyno history, a parts log, and the source of truth that powers your public build pages. Built for daily-driver owners and full-tilt project builders alike.
What lives in /garage
- Vehicle list — every car you own. Sold ones can be archived (kept for history) or deleted.
- Mod log per vehicle — brand, part, install date, cost, who installed it, photos, paired mods. The same data drives the install count on the catalog page for that mod.
- Dyno history per vehicle — every pull recorded with whp, wtq, fuel, dyno facility, mod state, and date.
- Total spend — automatic cost rollup across all logged mods. The number you don't want to admit to.
- Maintenance log — oil changes, fluid services, brake jobs, scheduled maintenance. Useful at sale time.
- Visibility toggle — public, private, or unlisted-link.
Public vs private builds
Every vehicle in your garage starts private. You can leave it that way — your garage is a useful tracking tool even if you never publish — or toggle it public and it becomes a build page anyone can find. Public builds:
- Get a permanent canonical URL: /build/[id]/[slug]
- Are indexed by search engines
- Surface on each mod's catalog page as a verified install
- Earn PSI for posts, mod reviews, and how-tos written about the build
- Are visible to people who follow you
How owners actually use the garage
Two patterns dominate:
- Daily-driver power-add. One car. Public build. Mods logged as you install them. A dyno pull every six months. Show & shines and wrench-day posts attached. Total spend on the build page becomes its own kind of trophy.
- Multi-car project builder. Several vehicles in the garage at any time. Some private (in-progress projects, the daily, the wife's car), some public (the show car, the track car). Maintenance logs on the boring ones, full posts on the interesting ones.
Maintenance log discipline
The maintenance log is the underrated feature. Logging oil changes, fluid services, and timing-belt intervals takes 10 seconds each and turns into a complete service history when you sell the car. Buyers have a way of believing a maintenance log with dates and odometer readings; they have no way of believing "I've been good about it."