State / Provincial regulations (lifts, etc.)

[Hodaka Rider]

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.

[A DOG]

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

[Numbchux]

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??

[Hodaka Rider]

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 Many of the laws could be out of date.

[WoodsWagon]

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.

[outback_97]

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

[nipper]

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

[NVBigBlue]

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.