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Garage Guides
Method guides for keeping a real vehicle record: maintenance, mods, tools, costs, and performance.
Every guide carries a visible last-reviewed date and states the scope it is true within. Anything that depends on your exact vehicle lives in the libraries below, where it is generated from the datasets and carries a verification level.
Baseline before you modify
An unmodified number you can compare against is worth more than a big number you cannot.
Reviewed 2026-08-155 min
How to budget a car build
The cost categories people forget, and why supporting parts are where budgets actually break.
Reviewed 2026-08-154 min
How to document a car build
What to record per modification, when to record it, and why the receipt matters as much as the part.
Reviewed 2026-08-155 min
Keeping maintenance records for a modified car
Why a modified car needs a better record than a stock one, and what to log when the book no longer applies.
Reviewed 2026-08-154 min
The tools your first jobs actually need
Buy in the order the work demands, not in kit form. What the first jobs require, and what can wait.
Reviewed 2026-08-154 min
Reference library
Three public libraries generated from the product's own datasets.
Vehicle Library
Makes, model lines, and generations
Chassis codes, platforms, and engine codes from the dataset the product runs on. Nothing is listed that the dataset does not carry.
21 platform pages published
DIY job library
Jobs with tools, hazards, and effort
Common maintenance jobs resolved from the product job catalog: required tools, hazards, effort ratings, and where verified data exists.
17 job pages published
Tool Library
The tools jobs call for
Which jobs need each tool, how strongly, and where a substitute works. Built from the same tool profiles the readiness feature uses.
5 tool pages published
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