Guidelines

The rules

Short version: make it rebuildable, be honest about what version it needs, and be decent in the comments.

What makes a build worth publishing

It has to be rebuildable. If someone cannot follow the parts list and end up with your car, it does not belong here.
Restraint beats volume. A car with three deliberate choices reads better than one with every slot filled.
Tag anything that is Enhanced only. Building on Enhanced is fine. The parts editor has a tick for the parts a Legacy player cannot fit, and using it is what lets somebody know before they start rather than halfway through.
In game customization only. Every build has to be made with what's actually in the game: parts from Los Santos Customs, Benny's and Hao's Special Works, plus paint, wheels, tint and neon. Anything an Online player cannot match exactly, like custom paint or Benny's wheels on a car Benny's does not convert, is marked on the build page.
Graphics mods are welcome. ReShade, QuantV and the like change how the game is drawn, not what is fitted, so shoot your build with whatever makes it look its best. The rule is about the car, not the camera.
One thing they do change is the paint. A graphics mod moves color and light, so the photograph is not a color anybody can match. The paint on the page is the name the game gives it, and that is the part to trust when you are rebuilding one.

Clear photos of the car, taken in good light, with the camera markers hidden. One is the minimum and twelve is the most a submission holds.
A title, a sentence or two about it, and one to three style tags.
The parts list, the same as a premium candidate asks for. Type it into the parts editor, or paste a written one into the box beside it. Every build on this site is written down part by part, which is what the site is for rather than a formality.
If you made a video about the build, add the link and it gets embedded on the page. YouTube or TikTok, and a moderator watches it before it goes up.

Everything a community build needs, and then the rest of this. Asking for a premium candidate is asking for the full treatment: reshot angles, part hotspots, and a feature video we film and edit, with you talking through your own build in it. The bar is higher because the work is ours, and the owner decides these rather than a moderator.
The parts list has to be complete, because it is what the decision is made on. Every slot you changed, not only the interesting ones.
The paint, including whether it is a palette color or a custom RGB one. Online only sells the presets, so a custom color is worth saying out loud.
A contact handle, so you can be reached if the build is picked for a feature. That is the one thing a community build does not ask for, and it gets arranged off the site.

You can have 3 drafts on the go at once, and 2 waiting for review.
A draft you do not touch for 30 days is deleted, and its pictures go with it. Every edit starts the 30 days again, so this only reaches builds nobody has come back to.
Once you send a build for review it is kept whatever the decision, so nothing you have submitted disappears.
A build a moderator sends back for correction is a draft again, so the 30 days apply to it too. Make the change or discard it.

Talk about the build. Criticism of the car is welcome, criticism of the person is not.
No links. A comment with one in it is refused outright rather than posted with the link taken out, so take it out yourself and post again.
No slurs, no harassment, no spam. Accounts that do this lose access.
New accounts may have their first comments held briefly before they appear.

Builds stay credited to the person who made them, including when a premium candidate is picked for a feature and reshot.
Do not submit someone else's build as your own. It is easy to spot and it ends the account.