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Les
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SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Sun, 01 June 2003 09:02 Go to next message
Got RBT today ... again... hahaha

ANYWAY... Since when do u need an enginnering certificate to lower your car and have rims ?

Lady cop pulled me up and said have you got a certificate for these modifications.. (rice lancer im talking bout) and Im thinking since when !??!?!

someone please clarify for me..

ps. she let me off the hook anyway .. sweeeeet ! Surprised
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toycelica77
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Re: SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Sun, 01 June 2003 09:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
if you lower it more than a percentage of the factory ride height you need an engineers cert.

not sure what percentage it is over in NSW

i know someone in NSW who lowered a hilux severely and had to get all kinds of bumpsteer tests and shit done
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Soarer
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Re: SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Sun, 01 June 2003 11:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
30% here in NSW I believe.
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Re: SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Sun, 01 June 2003 13:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I've just been to the NSW RTA website and pulled this info of it FYI. I had previously looked this up for my own benefit and thought I got an actual minimum clearance in millimetres but this time this is what I found. ==> Page 6 of the RTA's Vehicle Standards Information Sheet No.6 states under the heading SUSPENSION that "... the following suspension modifications are not acceptable: ... d) fitting any additional components or altering the suspension height so that any part of the vehicle other than a wheel or tyre can contact the road in the event of a tyre deflation. ..."
Hope this helps.
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Youngy
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Re: SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Sun, 01 June 2003 13:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
The short answer Les is no. Like a lot of cops they will try and book you for things that are simply wrong if they think you do not know any better.

What Scorpion was saying is that any suspension change connot cause any part of the wheel to contact part of the suspension (sensible), and should you get a flat no part of said suspension should touch the road etc (also sensible).

I actually have copies of all the applicable RTA documents and DOTARS (ADRs) in my glove box for such moments as when an officer tries to pull one.

Anyway 6 and 9 is what you will need and they make sense really:

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/downloads/v si06.pdf
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Re: SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Sun, 01 June 2003 14:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
6 & 9 always a winning combination Very Happy
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Re: SInce when do you need engineering for lowering your ride !? Mon, 02 June 2003 00:22 Go to previous message
strober wrote on Mon, 02 June 2003 00:16

6 & 9 always a winning combination Very Happy


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