How-to guides on SPOOLED are owner-written. Someone bought the part, did the install, took photos along the way, and wrote up what they wished they'd known going in. The result is the kind of installation guide you can't buy from the manufacturer or find in a forum thread that died in 2014: torque specs the instructions left out and gotchas only visible at step 7.
What you can find in a how-to guide
- Difficulty estimate — written by the author after the fact, so it reflects the actual job, not the optimistic instruction sheet.
- Tools and torque specs — authors call out socket sizes and torque values inline in the step text as they go.
- Comments thread — questions and answers below each guide; often the most useful part for edge cases.
Recently published how-to guides
Most recent first. Mark a guide helpful from its detail page to award PSI to the author.
Marking helpful and marking completed
Every how-to has two reader actions: Mark Helpful and Mark Completed. Helpful means the guide is well-written and useful; Completed means you actually followed it through to a working install. Both award PSI to the author. Completed votes are the highest-signal feedback an author gets — they confirm the instructions actually translate to a finished install on a different car.
Writing a how-to of your own
From the compose flow, pick post type How-To, tag the mod the guide is for — that's what lists it on the part's catalog page — and document the install as you do it. Add torque specs and tool sizes inline.
Good how-to guides are the highest-leverage thing you can post on SPOOLED. They show up in search and in feeds, and — when you tag the part — on that part's catalog page; they tend to accumulate helpful votes for years; and they're the single biggest PSI-earning content type on the platform.