NSW legal ride height?

[hollywood89]

ive been told clearance between rail and road surface must be no less than 100mm...

and heard stories of hw patrol using coke cans - "if rail clears a coke can - its legal"

tyres are not legal if they are 2 inches larger than factory standard diameter...

width of tyres/track not legal if more than 1.5 inches either side of factory standard


last 2 points are not regularly picked on because the police dont know all the specifications of particular models - that would be more of a "over the pits" scenario...

[blinded]

Yeah that is true, but I was mentioning it as just because the car may clear 100mm off the ground, doesn't mean that it IS legal

[nelpd96|]

The issues regarding tire diameter and track are both incorrect for the Eastern States of Australia. All Eastern states now use the NCOP or VSB14 as the guideline for modification of light vehicles.

For passenger vehicle the maximum increase in rolling diameter is +15mm or for 4WD it is +50mm.

Regarding the track of the vehicle you can only increase the track by a maximum of +25mm total or +12.5mm for side. This is measure from the centreline of the tire and as such the width of the rim has no impact but the offset does.

Lastly regarding the minimum height of the vehicle, the limitation is that when lowering suspensions you must retain at least 2/3rds of the orignial suspension travel or a minimum ride rolling clearance of 100m which ever is the higher. The way that this is normally represented is eyebrow height which is measure from the center of the wheel to the lip of the guard.

Under the NCOP it is not possible to 'engineer' (Well you probably could but it would be very expensive exercise) for these items, it either complies or it does not.