ride height on my VG

[Boonz]

ive had my car defected for my brakes apparantly not working, now not having a bitch about getting defected cos theres nothing i can do about it,

last year i got done for too low and i had to raise my car to 355mm from top of wheelarch to centre of centre cap.

now this time round i have to have my car 380 mm from centre to wheelarch...

why on earth would road traffic change the laws and make every VG owner vulnerable to getting a defect sticker for having stock suspension????

by the way stock springs and shocks sit the VG's ride height at 355mm...

a standard VN sedan is allowed to ahve the front as low as 325mm so why would it be different for the fronts on a ute???

i just dont see road traffics logic and neither did the copper i asked about the ride height...

[redcedar]

sounds like the S.A authorities are a bunch of mindless wankers with no idea and nothing to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Boonz]

it just means that i wont be able to carry a load in the back cos ill have an obese case of understeer from the front pointing up so much higher than the back...... its rediculous really cos it looks like a plane trying to take off lol...

[mouce]

Actually the Vehicle Standards which apply across the country state that the lowest point of the vehicle can be no less than 100mm from the ground (this is normally part of the exhaust system, although sometimes it is part of a bodykit).

The measurement from the wheelarch to the centre cap tells the police nothing about the ride height of the car, and can NOT be used to defect a vehicle. So the time you got dicked for being too low you shouldn't have been done, had you taken it to court you would have won.

The copper clearly didn't know what the hell he was meant to be measuring.

So long as nothing on your car is closer to the ground than 100mm (except the rubber of the tyres of course) you can't be defected for being too low.