If anyone has any insight or links on regulations for lifted/modified vehicles in your home State/Province, please post them here. I had found a good summary on the web before, but have since lost it.

I found this site with lots of laws on trucks for different states. In montana there arent many laws against vehicle modification. We don't even have smog testing.

 

http://texastrucktoys.com/catalog/liftlaws.php?osCsid=e74dced6c75058f4bf2a195b576d3167

virtually every statute/law in minnesota...

http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/169/

 

so...is mine a station wagon, or a muli-purpose 4wd vehicle??

I found this site with lots of laws on trucks for different states. In montana there arent many laws against vehicle modification. We don't even have smog testing.

 

http://texastrucktoys.com/catalog/liftlaws.php?osCsid=e74dced6c75058f4bf2a195b576d3167

 

Unfortunately, that article is from 2000. Many of the laws could be out of date.

For New hampshire, it is done by bumper height. Unfortunately, my wagon is registered as a passenger vehicle, so I'm only allowed 20" to the bottom of my bumper. Pickups are alowed 30" So every time I get it inspected, I have to put the low pro 13" rim wheels I have on it and load up the smugglers hatch and the spare tire well with steel to drop my bumpers low enough. Technically, if i pissed a cop off, I could get cited for excessive height, tires that stick out beyond the fenders, the scratch in the windshield, lack of mudflaps, sharp edges on the quarter panels I cut, and noise violation. The bumpers I'm planning on making are ilegal too, because they replace energy absorbing ones. Pickups are allowed anything more that a 1/4" steel plate.

 

The reason for all the regs is so that cars bumpers will be at the smae height in a crash. But with the number of suv/ trucks that are on the road now, it's only fair that the cars should be allowed to be as high as the trucks so we have a chance. With my car in it's illegal state, My bumper would hit most suv's just a bit above their bumpers. Fair game I say. Seeing as in a T bone incident, most suvs are nailing cars at the top of their doors.

Here's what I found for Utah:

 

http://highwaypatrol.utah.gov/faq.html#Altered%20Vehicle

 

Limits on frame heights:

http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE41/htm/41_04193.htm

 

Mudflap requirements:

http://www.le.state.ut.us/~code/TITLE41/htm/41_04195.htm

 

Steve

New york is easy, 30" ground height from frame to ground. They also want mud flaps (common sense). i do remeber to that you can't have more then 2 sets of accessory lights.

 

i have seen the 30" measured form the lowest point on the axle. Very little enforcement here, unelss you have an accident.

 

 

nipper

Here's Nevada's rules:

Here's all of the stuff:

 

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-484.html

 

But here's the part talking about height:

 

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-484.html#NRS484Sec7385

 

Based on max height vs GVW

You can also find the limits on lights, mudflaps, tires, chains, etc.....

But I don't think they really enforce it unless it's a safety issue.