how to keep your ride street legal.

[fitz_vt]

These are from the Australian Design Rules (Road Traffic (Vehicle Standards) Rules 1999—1.7.2008)
Steering
1. A Motor Vehicle Must have Right Hand Drive (or signed left hand drive with appropriate permits)
2. a vehicle must be able to turn a circle in under 25 meters

Ability to drive forwards and backwards
1.A motor vehicle with an unloaded mass over 450 kilograms must be able to be driven
both backwards and forwards when the driver is in the normal driving position.

Horns and alerting devices
1. All Vehicles Must Be Fitted with one horn that is standard to the vehicle make and model.
2. a Vehicle is not allowed to be fitted with blue and red flashing external lights.
3. an antitheft device cannot be operated while the vehicle ignition is on.
4. a vehicle must have a right and a left indicator or hand signals must be used.

Rear View Mirrors
1. A Vehicle must be fitted with a rear vision mirror.

Bonnet Securing devices
1.a Vehicle must have a bonnet securing device, that interlocks a bonnet into place while vehicle is in motion.


Windscreen and windscreen wipers
1. a vehicle must have a windscreen.
2. A motor vehicle with 3 or more wheels that is fitted with a windscreen must be fitted with at least 1 windscreen wiper unless a driver in a normal driving position canobtain an adequate view of the road ahead of the motor vehicle without looking through the windscreen.

Window Tinting
Glazing used in a windscreen of a motor vehicle must have a luminous transmittance
of at least:
(a) for a motor vehicle built after 1971— - 75%; or
(b) for another motor vehicle - 70%.

Tyres
a vehicles tyres must in roadworthy condition and must contain at least 2.5MM of tread otherwise they are deamed to be un roadworthy

External Lighting
1. All Lights must be of regulation colours
Regualtion Colours as follows
1. Head lights parkers and Number plate lights Must be white in colour
2. Brake / rear parker lights must be Red in colour
3. Indicators must be amber or Orange in colour
4. any other light eg fog lights must be Yellow or white in colour
5. Neon or flashing LED Lights are not to be fitted to a non police or emergency vehicle.
6. A Vehicle with more that 3 wheels must have two working headlights, the headlights must work in two functions High beam and low beam and must illuminate 25 meters infront of the vehicle
7. reversing lights must be white in colour.

Internal Lighting
1. A vehicles interoir lights must not be fitted with lights that distract other drivers or cause the driver to loose concentration on the road or affect the drivers ability to see the road

Braking Systems
All vehicles must have 4 brakes weather drum or disc and one cable operated emergency brake eather drum or disc.
all vehicles under 2.5 GVM(gross vehicle mass) must be able to stop from doing 35km/h to 0 in 12.5 Meters

Emission Control
All Vehicles after 1971 must be fitted with an exhaust, that reaches behind the rear seat of the vehicle and must contain appropriate emissions control devices (catalitic convertor)
a vehicle must be fitted with a muffling or silencing device

Vehicle Noise From exhuast while driving.
GVM Exhaust height (mm) When vehicle built Noise level
(dB(A))
1 ≤3.5 <1500 beforeJuly 1983 92
after June 1983 89
2 >3.5 <1500 before July 1983 98
after June 1983 95
3 ≤3.5 ≥1500 before July 1983 88
after June 1983 85
4 >3.5 ≥1500 before July 1983 94
after June 1983 91

Suspension
(police testing method)
Fill a empty coke can with sand or leave it full with coke and place it front of your vehicle in the middle of the bumper , drive your vehicle over the coke can, if the coke can falls over or gets crushed your car is too low.

thats about it if anyone else knows anymore about this topic please feel free to add things to the thread.

[apoc585]

Nice bit of info there...

Is there a particular luminosity rating for headlights that is deemed legal? ie. 4000k or something?

[R0d]

Suspension
(police testing method)
Fill a empty coke can with sand or leave it full with coke and place it front of your vehicle in the middle of the bumper , drive your vehicle over the coke can, if the coke can falls over or gets crushed your car is too low.

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lol mine would be alright if it was one of those mini coke cans

[STEALTHY™]

Why not post the full ADRs, the whole 300 pages of them.

[fitz_vt]

Why not post the full ADRs, the whole 300 pages of them.

it would of taken a while and alot of space this is just general information

[STEALTHY™]

it would of taken a while and alot of space this is just general information

You could've just linked to it.

I printed out a copy of them, so i have a copy to look at when i can't get on the computer aswell.

[fitz_vt]

Nice bit of info there...

Is there a particular luminosity rating for headlights that is deemed legal? ie. 4000k or something?

the luminosity rating is actually the distance your headlights reach which is a minimum of 25 meters for low beam and 50 meters for high beam
not to sure on the maximum headlight luminosity

[Disturbed_vegeta]

that hieght one is wrong...well atleast in qld it is...here its 10cm and a coke can is around 15 or something

[STEALTHY™]

that hieght one is wrong...well atleast in qld it is...here its 10cm and a coke can is around 15 or something

LMAO, that isn't legislation, thats someone personal 'rough guide' of how to measure your car.

[Morton]

Wow, a coke can? All of my cars would have failed that.

A coke can is 13cm tall.

You're better off using a 175g can of Masterfoods Wholegrain Mustard. I just measured that, and it's 9.5cm tall. Keep one in your car at all times, and if a police officer tries the "coke can test", you can tell him what I told you

[Ozzie]

minux has already covered all of this here.

streight from the source

[NORTI]

I have posted the SA mod guide in the SA section. Its stickied

[fitz_vt]

minux has already covered all of this here.

streight from the source

ok it didnt come up in the search when i created it sorry.

[fitz_vt]

I have posted the SA mod guide in the SA section. Its stickied

thanks NORTI

[6leeta]

Rear View Mirrors
1. A Vehicle must be fitted with a rear vision mirror.

Ive driven heaps of trucks both modern & old that have no rear view mirror or any rear window infact Does this apply to vehicles in general or are there seperate rules for trucks? cause in that case there should be many hino &isuzu model truck off the road if thats true

[STEALTHY™]

Ive driven heaps of trucks both modern & old that have no rear view mirror or any rear window infact Does this apply to vehicles in general or are there seperate rules for trucks? cause in that case there should be many hino &isuzu model truck off the road if thats true

Your side mirrors are still classed as 'rear vision mirrors'

There are also specific laws for Vans without a rear window, and trucks.

[LightningVP]

Ive driven heaps of trucks both modern & old that have no rear view mirror or any rear window infact Does this apply to vehicles in general or are there seperate rules for trucks? cause in that case there should be many hino &isuzu model truck off the road if thats true

all trucks are MADE with the middle rear view mirror, but depending on the body they will either take it off or put a reverse camera in it. All our trucks are fitted with reverse cameras but the cabin also has the mirror as the actual truck is just a normal Isuzu truck, with a garbage tray on the back...

[Thats-How-We-Roll]

Actually they got rid of the coke can theory I THINK, because of a kid in bendigo asked the cop to drive over it in their VE SS and it knocked the can over an yet hhe still got defected but later took it to court and won. a standard can is roughly 12.5cms and low as u can go is 10cm (100mm) from middle of the bumper to the ground on pure flat surface.

[STEALTHY™]

there was never anything in legislation about a coke can!

There was the height (100mm). If a cop decides to make you drive over a can and you fail, and accept the defect, more fool you! Get them to measure something that is 10cm, then drive over that!

[Thats-How-We-Roll]

yeah i know im sayig cops arnt ment to use that system anymore! to determine your fate

[Excale]

Dammit doesn't say anything about Safeway trolleys being allowed on the road, i guess ill be walking to school until i can afford myself a ford laser! YEAH BRO!

[tt460]

there was never anything in legislation about a coke can!

There was the height (100mm). If a cop decides to make you drive over a can and you fail, and accept the defect, more fool you! Get them to measure something that is 10cm, then drive over that!

there is also stuff in the ADR's about the height of the headlights, so whilst your car might be above the 100mm specified in them your headlights could be lower than what is in the ADR's. But i have never heard about anyone getting defected due to the headlights being to low.

[taztassio]

the vic road rules for right height differ from this. there is a formula for the ride height based on the distance between wheels.

also, height cannot be tested before or after 1m from an axle

[rumbuck]

in gatton QLD i knew a bloke that was pulled over and the cops crawled under with a ruler that was cut down to 100mm and found the lowest point of the car and knocked him off for being too low and it was cause an exhaust mount had broken and the exhaust was just hanging under the limit but anyway

[Peter89]

Suspension
(police testing method)
Fill a empty coke can with sand or leave it full with coke and place it front of your vehicle in the middle of the bumper , drive your vehicle over the coke can, if the coke can falls over or gets crushed your car is too low.

in vic they use a wheel thats 100mm or just by looking if there's no hope :P