Thread: Confused on measuring suspension height to check if compliant (suspesion/tyres)

Originally Posted by Homestar

Still begs the question that if you take your legal vehicle from another state into Qld does it get defected? Sounds like this has happened already but I'm sure you successfully defend this in court? Maybe we'll have to wait until someone does challenge a defect notice. Wonder if I'd get pulled over in the 101 because it's rolling on 36" rubber... . Would love them to try and find the specs in their little black book on a 101 - and even if they did, find it to be perfectly legal...

Maybe the Ho Hars can run around in one of theirs trolling the highway patrol...

Operation Lift and Queensland’s suspension and lift laws - The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory

UPDATE
Queensland Government confirminterstate vehicles will not be defected
In what has been a rather tumultuous week for Queenslanders and, indeed, just about anyone who would travel into the state for holidays or work with their four-wheel drive, the Queensland Government has confirmed that interstate vehicles will not be defected or fined; despite earlier contradictory statements...

So, the simplest way for Queenslanders to comply is to get a friends interstate address and register it there.

Wonder if they'll be a spike in registrations in Tweed Heads...

Originally Posted by Homestar

Still begs the question that if you take your legal vehicle from another state into Qld does it get defected? Sounds like this has happened already but I'm sure you successfully defend this in court? Maybe we'll have to wait until someone does challenge a defect notice. Wonder if I'd get pulled over in the 101 because it's rolling on 36" rubber... . Would love them to try and find the specs in their little black book on a 101 - and even if they did, find it to be perfectly legal...

Maybe the Ho Hars can run around in one of theirs trolling the highway patrol...

I have looked at this with the 101 Landy.
I am running whats marked on the tyres as 36 inch rubber and in practice appears to be 35 inch on slightly widen wheels.
The standard bar treads are 34 inch and If you run the Michelins commonly fitted by many users world wide over many decades, they work out to be 35 inch.
Factory advertising shows 38 inch low pressure Terra tyres could be fitted as a option on both the 101 Landy and its powered trailer.
The Australian army fitted rubber mud guard fares to comply with Australian road rules.( back in 1980)
If you go for a slightly larger diameter tyre on a 101 and fit them on slightly wider wheels, which are widen to the out side of the vehicle all the scrub angles etc will be the same.
101 wheels can only be widen to the out side any how due interference with a steering ball joint.
I think the 101 would be just too hard if some was to fight it in court.
I could see a 101 landy being singled out because of its high stance and raised look.
In practice the fitting of modern tyres instead of bar treads has improved safety of the vehicle all round.
I can see if the government starts trying to keep all light 4x4s totally standard, everyone who needs to really work a 4x4 for a living or for exploring or for fun will just move into something like a ex army Unimog and it will just upset the greens in govt more and have the opposite effect of what was planed by the govt do gooders and be totally legal.

I dont know if this is standard but GMH measure from under wheeel arch down to the bottom of the rim for ride height

From 4WDQLD

Pat Callinan's Unsealed 4 x 4 has run several reports with lots of details on this.
Interstate vehicles are said to be unaffected, if the Minister can be believed. Appears Gold Coast police have gone a bit feral.
I'm unaffected, but the son is stressing big time about his lifted Hilux, even though the body lift has an engineer's MOD plate.

As I understand it, if it has ESC no body lift at all is allowed, even with an engineer's certificate, as the testing involved in approving a body lift with ESC is very technical and costs up to $20,000. No one in Queensland is currently approved to do it.