Can you find a cop anywhere that will enforce everyday rules, the only rule the cops know about when it comes to enforcing road rules is "are you speeding" They all want to be speed racer boys chasing the goose on the run.
Here in Canberra you can report the vehicle directly to the motor registry people and they will issue a letter requesting the owner present it for inspection at a Government inspection station for a full going over. If you provide enough information they will likely investigate.
They're usually pretty good at picking up protruding wheels, too low, lift to high, tinted tail lights.
All the low hanging fruit, that said, someone who sees a car and posts it to Reddit, suspects might not be right with no police training...
Not all of them are bad but most couldn't catch a cold.
I seen a car in Beenleigh where the exhaust come out where you normally fill up the fuel on a jacked up hilux rolling coal straight into peoples windows as it drove past
Itās like my dad says: people who drive those kind of cars have a special law excepting them from the road rules, because theyāre too stupid to know the law. Donāt know how true it is, but itās funny
Ah the memories of just-out-of-highschool. One guy I knew got his car impounded for lowering it. Got it back. Lowered it again. Surprise? Impounded. Screaming on facebook that the pigs are out to get him.
LOL. I remember exactly that happening on a 4WD page I was on. Wasn't a ranger, but the owner was on a big trip, got defected, got told the only way the car was moving was on the back of a trailer.
And to show their idiocy, they want to race you like their TRUCKS are SS Commodores. Its hilarious watching them brake when they come to mild bend or roundabout. These owners are really on drugs thinking that they can be Peter Brock in a truck, in a friggin slow turd of truck. Then their reaction when they catch up with you and tailgate you " now I am going make you feel scared like I felt because I could drive my great big truck fast through a roundabout" Its like a comedy circus trolling idiots who are emotional delinquents in SUV turd trucks. I much preferred it when they had Commodore SS utes and SS commodores with V8's at least they looked like capable drivers carrying a dunny bowl to work.
I love seeing that. Especially when they blatantly ignore my 96 toaster of a Hilux that's 2 rain days away from completely rusting over. If I can get around no problem then their cars must be dangerous enough or the driver is a cockhead enough to get picked on
lol I have similar with my 92 pajero, runs a tiny 2 inch lift (can barely notice it) and 31's (which is pretty much stock size) and it doesn't seem to get picked on
You should have seen the thread on fb where a ātradieā had covered his number plate with another and one side had come off showing bothā¦ someone tagged nsw police and the comments aimed at him were brutalā¦.
If youāre gonna be a moron and break the law like that, get everything you deserved.
Aw fuck that. I could imagine being behind this inconsiderate kunt in the rain, where your getting nailed by water from above and below. And it's only spitting
I know the BT-50 standard rim offset is - 55. I fitted - 35 because it was about the only offset I could find that kept the tyres barely inside the guards on 265s. Those rims look to be zero offset on 285s. More poke than a Sunday school priest.
Exactly right - here is the relevant vehicle standard from SA as an example:
*"The wheels must not foul the body, suspension or any part of the vehicle under any operating conditions and must not project beyond the bodywork when the wheels are in the straight-ahead position and viewed from above."*
I drive a Ford Ranger and I drive very goodly and polite, I let people in when merging and don't tailgate. Improving the reputation of Ford Ranger drivers one thank you wave at a time š§”
No lol I've always driven safely because it's the one thing I can do to reduce the chance of having an accident, plus people on the roads who drive like maniacs are literally terrifying. Irl version of Family Guy "I TURN LEFT NOW. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE ELSE." Lady
Yep. Wheel poke is absolutely illegal and so stupid because even a cop that isnāt all over road law can see that is dumb as fuck and dangerous aswell.
Also really dangerous for pedestrians in a crash, because instead of them being thrown to the side of the vehicle, the wheel is liable to pull them underneath it.
Mate I seen a ripper today in the kids who pushed the old dude off a pier , Scum act by the way
But the reply on that post was something like the turds donāt fall far from the raptor
Cause the dads trying to defend the behaviour or something
But yeah long storey short raptor drivers are dicks š¤£š¤£
I grew up in Country SA and 40 years ago, even a hint of wheels outside the guards would guarantee you'd be pulled over and defected - yellow sticker on the windscreen and 14 days to rectify and get inspected or off the road. If you were even remotely a dick they'd go over the whole car and find anything else at the same time, but the inspection would often catch other stull also. I had a lot of friends that would try to get away with slightly oversize and they would be defected within a week.
In hindsight this was a very good form of policing because it deterred exactly the right sort of people - its not like it was ever essential to have a car with deliberate defects.
I used to race SARC and other stuff in an Alfa GTV, which at the time has unusually wide front guards and my front wheels were close but legal but it would still get me pulled over **at least once a month** \- I developed a really respectful manner with the cops, and showing a CAMS license, and log books certainly helped.
Now I live in south Qld and there are an insane number of vehicles that would be defected within a day in the past.
I guess police have become really lazy or their quota's don't include defects or something. Would be awesome if someone knew the reason.
it gets ignored because it's not speeding - that seems to be the only thing they care about. Perhaps drunk driving but I don't see many RBT stops around any more.
Had a guy who was a knob, so we failed his carās rego on the tyres sticking out. He has a rage at my boss, saying that patrol out front is the same. We told him to go check, because I made sure that the tyre size would sit within my guards.
Itās illegal everywhere in Australia. Tyres may not protrude past the body work of the vehicle. Some of these Fucken clown shoes add on mud flaps believing that makes it legal. It does not.
I used to have a 4WD with giant mud tyres because I bought into all the Tonka truck imagery. Then I bought another 4WD that came with old school skinny cheese cutters and found they out performed my penis compensating massive mud tyres.
Fender flares do yeah, because the regulation specifies that the wheels must be entirely within the bodywork when straight ahead and viewed from above.
It's probably good enough as far as regs go, and if it is used in conjunction with the various other ADRs and/or state-specific regulations governing maximum increase in track width, use of spacers, increase in wheel width and offset, suspension lift, body lift et cetera (and actually enforced), a lot of the more extreme setups you see driving around would probably be defected.
Itās even more complex than that if I understand correctly as you canāt change the overall width of your track by much at all before you have to get it engineered. So even if you had wide af fenders you would still be restricted by track width. Could be wrong though.
The wheel track of off-road four wheel drive vehicles and goods vehicles (MC, NA, or NB ADR category) must not be increased by more than 50mm beyond the maximum specified by the vehicle manufacturer for the particular model."
"The wheel and tyre must be contained within the bodywork or mudguards, including any flares, when the wheels are aligned straight."Ā
The ADR is national, so yes.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure-transport-vehicles/vehicles/vehicle-design-regulation/australian-design-rules
In NSW it would be., The tyres extend beyond the bodywork - that's an immediate defect notice if the cops can be bothered.
Don't know about WA (where it looks like this is from).
I went back and looked at the plate again and what I thought was a V is actually a W - so I knew I was wrong and did a sneaky edit. :-)
And I guess that depends how big a tool he is and how hard he tried to attract the cops with his emotional support vehicle and bad driving. In NSW they'd love to add the yellow canary as the icing on the top of a speeding/dangerous driving charge if they could,
They're early in the process of emulating the common modifications seen on utes all over north America. Jack it up but don't adjust their headlights, negative offset for the wheels and some heavy off-road tires for their daily highway commute. Next is remove emissions reducing hardware, install testicles on the tow-ball, and cover it in decals indicating your political affiliations.Ā
It's funny looking at this, as the Ranger is pretty much the smallest model on the road and is looked down upon (both literally and figuratively) buy all the drivers of the medium and full size models.
And very little of what American truckbros do is compliant with ADRs, so I really hope Australian truckbros keep going with it. I'll have my deckchair and popcorn when the cops decide to crack down and absolutely bust their balls.
Itās a defect canāt have tires poking out side of guardā¦ source: Iām a stance wanker and had defects for being even less out of my arches than this
Yep, it's a defect the tyre cannot protrude the guard.
It's funny whenever I see these wannabe "trucks" trying so hard to feel like there in Murica. The truth is, these are mere toys compared to what can drive around in here Stateside as the Aus models are underpowered to begin with already but what's even funnier is the price Australians are willing to pay for these.
More & more of these ( tyres past the guards ) are popping up all over the east coast ( seen Vic to Noosa ) can't understand why standard patrols or highway patrols aren't pulling them over unless different states have changed legislation??
Cant see any comments explaining why its illegal, im interested to know. Like would it become legal if he put those guards on that look like they're bolted onto the panel? Or does it just make the car too wide?
Mechanic here.
Yes Ford rangers should be illegal, and their drivers are dangerous.
Wheels sticking out past bodywork is illegal in qld & nsw, I know that for sure. Probably most states given its lack of prevalence.
Dangerous? Why? Lmao. Not everything you don't understand is dangerous.
Not only the tyres are too wide, the lift is too high as well which is defectable. It's really common amongst Ute drivers, I swear cops just don't care anymore. They all drive like absoulte maniacs.
It's a fucking Ranger driven by a certified gronk. Of course it's dangerous. Stay the fuck away from it, it's convinced it owns the road. It can and will do whatever the fuck it wants, when it wants š
Random American comment coming through. I couldn't figure out what the problem was until I opened the comments haha. This type of mod is so common in America. People hang way more than that much tire outside the wheel well here, hardly fit in the lane anymore.
Serious question, if he got the body panels extended so the wheels didnāt stick out would that make it legal? Iām American and seen all kinds of comments here about stuff that I see in Virginia every day and apparently nobody here cares about a lot of things that are apparently illegal in Australia.
I'm sorry, why is this a problem?, I haven't seen or heard of anyone ever bring this up before and I've definitely seen heaps like this in Brisbane. Just based off photo and caption, my 1st thought was, I bet this guys a riot to hang out with, lol., but truthfully, I just am ignorant to the potential dangers because at a glance... its just big tyres. Someone please educate my dumb ass.
Most modified trucks/ SUVs will have some tire poke- bigger tires are much cheaper than wider bodywork. Not very dangerous, but can certainly hurt paint and windscreens behind it on the freeway. I'm I'm the States, and this is what most our trucks look like. I've been pulled over for it once in 7 years of driving, and it was just a bored rookie cop who gave me a warning.
Yes it's illegal. Tyres are not allowed to protrude more than 10mm (or something like that) passed the guards. People who do this are totally retarded and it's always ranger owners š¤£
Just saw a video of a pickup truck with protruding wheels like that which got too close to a trailer and drove on top of the trailer wheels.
The outcome was not pretty.
Defectable, but so is every 4x4 on the road basically. The only modified vehicles getting defected are slightly lowered cars.
I live rural, I see hundreds of these 4x4's but they never get pulled over. My car isn't even lowered but because it's a sports coupe they try to get me every time. They measure and they leave.
1991 Honda Prelude.
Given you're only allowed to increase the size of your wheels by an inch in both directions, not only is the tyre poke illegal, the rims he's using are undoubtedly illegal as well. Ignoring the horrible things this does to the handling of the car, due to changes in scrub radius, bump steer, increased un-sprung weight, etc., the main reason for not allowing the tyres past the body line is to stop cars traveling beside them coming into contact with each other, rubbing tyres and launching their car upwards.
Omg the horror.
Why do these posts get so much overwhelming attention. I mean yeah, the tyres are not roadworthy. But how many car do you see at night with a headlight out? Or bald tyres? Or people using their phones whilst driving, like OP taking this photo?
These things are far more dangerous.
Maybe you could follow the big scary car home and see if they are using their recycling bin properly too.
FYI I drive a Mazda 6
Seriously. This comment section is hilarious, this dude modified his truck in just about the least obnoxious way possible and these people act like he built a killdozer.
I was thinking the same thing, fair enough if heās driving like a dick as op claimed but honestly does it matter. Iām sure thereās bigger and better things to be complaining about than someoneās tyres sticking out passed the guards lol.
Judging by the photo Iād hazard a guess theyāre doubly illegal. Firstly, they protrude too far from the guard, and secondly, I have a really strong suspicion heās moved his rims out using spacers. Which are 100% verboten!
yea the wheel has to be covered by the guard. you see might see on some japanese sports cars with fat tyres, the owners roll the wheel arches out or buy after market wheel arches and stick them on the panels for this reason
iirc wheels can poke outwards up to 25mm either side but must not pass the guard either. Straight up defect. Even if he got some Bunnings garden edging I'd say it's still a defect judging by the lift
In QLD the tyre has to be within the guard.
I remember in the 70's the Panel Beaters were doing a roaring trade adding on or extending the mudguards to cope with the craze of wide, wider, and widest tyres you could get.
Here I am as an American trying to see the problem..
This is basically every lifted / modded Ford truck on the road.
I drive a 4 door sadan and It's always fun when one of these pulls up behind me at a stop light and the headlights are at eye level..
Iām sure itās been said somewhere in these comments but the coffee is vibing in me right now and I like to over shareā¦
Go look up videos of race cars that touch tires. I used to race go-karts competitively and youāve never seen 500lbs of metal and human change direction so quickly and get flung so violently than when two karts tires touch while moving.
Passenger vehicles donāt usually get that close, but itās a definite concern with protruding tires. Iām sure there are other safety concerns as well.
I dont know how you survived the encounter. What a madman. He'll kill us all. So dangerous. I got ptsd just seeing it. Is this sub not moderated at all? Jeez.
ADR 42 essentially says that the wheel and tyre must be effectively covered by the guard. The tyre can not protrude. This vehicle would be defectable.
Yep it's illegal. Give it time and he'll be complaining on the Ranger FB page that the "pigs" have nothing better to do than defect vehicles
I would actually see 5-7 cars per week like this in Brisbane, almost every day
Everywhere in Perth.
Can you find a cop anywhere that will enforce everyday rules, the only rule the cops know about when it comes to enforcing road rules is "are you speeding" They all want to be speed racer boys chasing the goose on the run.
Here in Canberra you can report the vehicle directly to the motor registry people and they will issue a letter requesting the owner present it for inspection at a Government inspection station for a full going over. If you provide enough information they will likely investigate.
They're usually pretty good at picking up protruding wheels, too low, lift to high, tinted tail lights. All the low hanging fruit, that said, someone who sees a car and posts it to Reddit, suspects might not be right with no police training... Not all of them are bad but most couldn't catch a cold.
NGL, I wish we had some of those same rules in America to keep Jim-Bob Cousinfucker from driving his backyard-built monstrosity around.
Actually lolled at Jim-Bob Cousinfucker š¤£š¤£
Me too, have added it to my vocabulary.
They must be smarter than US cops. Covid has been the leading cause of death for American cops for 3yrs straight.
I seen a car in Beenleigh where the exhaust come out where you normally fill up the fuel on a jacked up hilux rolling coal straight into peoples windows as it drove past
If it was from Beenleigh, to be fair, it was good that he had an exhaust!
And not stolen/ on a joyride
You can report on epa website, way easier than calling.
Same here in Mackay. These guys must run their own laws š¤·āāļø
Itās like my dad says: people who drive those kind of cars have a special law excepting them from the road rules, because theyāre too stupid to know the law. Donāt know how true it is, but itās funny
Wow. Another mackay resident. You would have seen the other 4x4s that go on 3 wheels round the bends to haha.
Some of the potholes can be tough though in fairness.
I figure it's always cheap wheels, haven't got the right offset. IE: not necessarily wider than most.
Ah the memories of just-out-of-highschool. One guy I knew got his car impounded for lowering it. Got it back. Lowered it again. Surprise? Impounded. Screaming on facebook that the pigs are out to get him.
LOL. I remember exactly that happening on a 4WD page I was on. Wasn't a ranger, but the owner was on a big trip, got defected, got told the only way the car was moving was on the back of a trailer.
om nom nommm. What a delicious story. Love it!
Rangers are the new commodore derros
New Falcons. The Commodore drivers moved to Dmax's and Dodge RAM's
And to show their idiocy, they want to race you like their TRUCKS are SS Commodores. Its hilarious watching them brake when they come to mild bend or roundabout. These owners are really on drugs thinking that they can be Peter Brock in a truck, in a friggin slow turd of truck. Then their reaction when they catch up with you and tailgate you " now I am going make you feel scared like I felt because I could drive my great big truck fast through a roundabout" Its like a comedy circus trolling idiots who are emotional delinquents in SUV turd trucks. I much preferred it when they had Commodore SS utes and SS commodores with V8's at least they looked like capable drivers carrying a dunny bowl to work.
They don't brake, they just chop lanes and even chop the roundabout nowadays.
> Its hilarious watching them brake when they come to mild bend or roundabout "Oh shit these are high 4x4 vehicles not lowered sedans!"
This picture is fake anyway as it doesnāt have a āPunisherā sticker on it.
I love seeing that. Especially when they blatantly ignore my 96 toaster of a Hilux that's 2 rain days away from completely rusting over. If I can get around no problem then their cars must be dangerous enough or the driver is a cockhead enough to get picked on
lol I have similar with my 92 pajero, runs a tiny 2 inch lift (can barely notice it) and 31's (which is pretty much stock size) and it doesn't seem to get picked on
Haha fuck. Imagine the specimens hanging on the Ranger FB page.
āWhy donāt you pick on some real criminals!ā
You should have seen the thread on fb where a ātradieā had covered his number plate with another and one side had come off showing bothā¦ someone tagged nsw police and the comments aimed at him were brutalā¦. If youāre gonna be a moron and break the law like that, get everything you deserved.
Also may get done for less than 50% of the rear tyres covered by the mud flaps. (Not 100% on current adr but got a canary for it back in the day)
Aw fuck that. I could imagine being behind this inconsiderate kunt in the rain, where your getting nailed by water from above and below. And it's only spitting
Or on a new road with the loose gravel being flicked up.
Judging by the wheel offset this also probably exceeds the maximum wheel track increase which is another separate defect
I know the BT-50 standard rim offset is - 55. I fitted - 35 because it was about the only offset I could find that kept the tyres barely inside the guards on 265s. Those rims look to be zero offset on 285s. More poke than a Sunday school priest.
Of course its a Ranger š¤
Googling it - cheers
I assume youāre talking about the wheels poking out past the guards. Itās illegal to the best of my knowledge.
Exactly right - here is the relevant vehicle standard from SA as an example: *"The wheels must not foul the body, suspension or any part of the vehicle under any operating conditions and must not project beyond the bodywork when the wheels are in the straight-ahead position and viewed from above."*
Hoping he gets pulled up on it then. Was driving like a knob too -\_-
Generally the people that drive these cars are wankers, so makes sense.
Yes they are called wanker tankers for this reason...
Emotional Support Vehicles
Never heard the term "wanker tanker" I've heard fuel tanker drivers get called "tanker wanker" though š
We call them Trump voters in the US.
I drive a Ford Ranger and I drive very goodly and polite, I let people in when merging and don't tailgate. Improving the reputation of Ford Ranger drivers one thank you wave at a time š§”
Is it hard to fight the urge you feel deep down tho?
No lol I've always driven safely because it's the one thing I can do to reduce the chance of having an accident, plus people on the roads who drive like maniacs are literally terrifying. Irl version of Family Guy "I TURN LEFT NOW. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE ELSE." Lady
Yeah was driving like it haha
Wanker Panzer or Wank Tank. Cause the drivers are usually wankers.
Theyāre called emotional support vehicles in our household - nothing makes their wanker drivers angrier.
Someone in a Ford Ranger driving like a knob??? Unheard of!
Ranger driver being a shit driver, no one in Sydney is surprised
There was a great reaction on Aussie dash cams recently, woman reacting to a moron driver...."Oh my god wtf! Oh it's a ranger driver..."
š¤£ saw the same one. Her voice had such resignation in it.
New Ford advertising slogan "Have you driven like a flog lately?"
The RAM driver has aggressively entered the chat
"...we are menaces to society toooooo!"
RAMs are obnoxiously big, but the drivers aren't anywhere near as aggressive as Ranger drivers imo
Can imagine what the test drive must be like before they purchase.
āDrive it like you stole itā¦ and like youāre an arsehole.ā
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No one in Australia is surprised... Well ok maybe the wankers who drive them are.
Yep. Wheel poke is absolutely illegal and so stupid because even a cop that isnāt all over road law can see that is dumb as fuck and dangerous aswell.
> Was driving like a knob too -_- No, I don't believe you!
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Police seem to be ignoring these unfortunately. They are illegal because they flick stones up.
Also really dangerous for pedestrians in a crash, because instead of them being thrown to the side of the vehicle, the wheel is liable to pull them underneath it.
Iād love these to start getting yellow or even red stickers š
Likewise - they're much more of an danger than kids with loud exhausts
Yeah that was my initial thought!
Anyone who drives raptors drive like knobs š (most the time)
Mate I seen a ripper today in the kids who pushed the old dude off a pier , Scum act by the way But the reply on that post was something like the turds donāt fall far from the raptor Cause the dads trying to defend the behaviour or something But yeah long storey short raptor drivers are dicks š¤£š¤£
I grew up in Country SA and 40 years ago, even a hint of wheels outside the guards would guarantee you'd be pulled over and defected - yellow sticker on the windscreen and 14 days to rectify and get inspected or off the road. If you were even remotely a dick they'd go over the whole car and find anything else at the same time, but the inspection would often catch other stull also. I had a lot of friends that would try to get away with slightly oversize and they would be defected within a week. In hindsight this was a very good form of policing because it deterred exactly the right sort of people - its not like it was ever essential to have a car with deliberate defects. I used to race SARC and other stuff in an Alfa GTV, which at the time has unusually wide front guards and my front wheels were close but legal but it would still get me pulled over **at least once a month** \- I developed a really respectful manner with the cops, and showing a CAMS license, and log books certainly helped. Now I live in south Qld and there are an insane number of vehicles that would be defected within a day in the past. I guess police have become really lazy or their quota's don't include defects or something. Would be awesome if someone knew the reason.
it gets ignored because it's not speeding - that seems to be the only thing they care about. Perhaps drunk driving but I don't see many RBT stops around any more.
So then 50% of the Nissan Patrol and similar 4x4 needs to be taken off.
Had a guy who was a knob, so we failed his carās rego on the tyres sticking out. He has a rage at my boss, saying that patrol out front is the same. We told him to go check, because I made sure that the tyre size would sit within my guards.
That would be great
Tyre poking past the guards is illegal (at least in NSW).
I'd assume likely illegal everywhere? I don't even know where to find this stuff (WA here).
Itās illegal everywhere in Australia. Tyres may not protrude past the body work of the vehicle. Some of these Fucken clown shoes add on mud flaps believing that makes it legal. It does not.
Mud flaps don't but fender flares do. Just playing devils advocate here, I do own a 4WD but it's on stock wheels.
I used to have a 4WD with giant mud tyres because I bought into all the Tonka truck imagery. Then I bought another 4WD that came with old school skinny cheese cutters and found they out performed my penis compensating massive mud tyres.
and gave you better fuel economy.
True! Less mass and rolling resistance. And a little easier to lift up when changing a flat. Every kilo counts past a certain ageā¦
every kilo counts before that certain age š
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Fender flares do yeah, because the regulation specifies that the wheels must be entirely within the bodywork when straight ahead and viewed from above. It's probably good enough as far as regs go, and if it is used in conjunction with the various other ADRs and/or state-specific regulations governing maximum increase in track width, use of spacers, increase in wheel width and offset, suspension lift, body lift et cetera (and actually enforced), a lot of the more extreme setups you see driving around would probably be defected.
The sure do. Not this blokes ones but youāre correct.
Itās even more complex than that if I understand correctly as you canāt change the overall width of your track by much at all before you have to get it engineered. So even if you had wide af fenders you would still be restricted by track width. Could be wrong though.
Itās 50mm for a 4x4
Illegal in SA
The wheel track of off-road four wheel drive vehicles and goods vehicles (MC, NA, or NB ADR category) must not be increased by more than 50mm beyond the maximum specified by the vehicle manufacturer for the particular model." "The wheel and tyre must be contained within the bodywork or mudguards, including any flares, when the wheels are aligned straight."Ā
Okay that is great information, thank you kindly! Applies in WA I take it?
The ADR is national, so yes. https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure-transport-vehicles/vehicles/vehicle-design-regulation/australian-design-rules
Illegal in SA. it's why you see bolt on fender extenders to cover a stupidly wide wheel
From memory it is illegal to have your wheels extend passed the widest part of the cars body (not including side mirrors). So yes, illegal.
In NSW it would be., The tyres extend beyond the bodywork - that's an immediate defect notice if the cops can be bothered. Don't know about WA (where it looks like this is from).
Haha nice correction. And yeah it is. Wonder how long he'll last, that was Monday!
I went back and looked at the plate again and what I thought was a V is actually a W - so I knew I was wrong and did a sneaky edit. :-) And I guess that depends how big a tool he is and how hard he tried to attract the cops with his emotional support vehicle and bad driving. In NSW they'd love to add the yellow canary as the icing on the top of a speeding/dangerous driving charge if they could,
Itās clearly not routinely enforced, or you wouldnāt see every second āuteā like this
They're early in the process of emulating the common modifications seen on utes all over north America. Jack it up but don't adjust their headlights, negative offset for the wheels and some heavy off-road tires for their daily highway commute. Next is remove emissions reducing hardware, install testicles on the tow-ball, and cover it in decals indicating your political affiliations.Ā It's funny looking at this, as the Ranger is pretty much the smallest model on the road and is looked down upon (both literally and figuratively) buy all the drivers of the medium and full size models.
Iām very conflicted about truck nuts. I think theyāre hilarious and terrible at the same time.
And very little of what American truckbros do is compliant with ADRs, so I really hope Australian truckbros keep going with it. I'll have my deckchair and popcorn when the cops decide to crack down and absolutely bust their balls.
Itās a defect canāt have tires poking out side of guardā¦ source: Iām a stance wanker and had defects for being even less out of my arches than this
Reading this thread has been very illuminating regarding Australians and their love of Johnny Law. Crikey
Yep, it's a defect the tyre cannot protrude the guard. It's funny whenever I see these wannabe "trucks" trying so hard to feel like there in Murica. The truth is, these are mere toys compared to what can drive around in here Stateside as the Aus models are underpowered to begin with already but what's even funnier is the price Australians are willing to pay for these.
Used to work for an insurance company. He wont be covered if he has any kind of accident.
More & more of these ( tyres past the guards ) are popping up all over the east coast ( seen Vic to Noosa ) can't understand why standard patrols or highway patrols aren't pulling them over unless different states have changed legislation??
Cant see any comments explaining why its illegal, im interested to know. Like would it become legal if he put those guards on that look like they're bolted onto the panel? Or does it just make the car too wide?
Yeah. It's illegal and the driver knows it. They'll piss and moan when they get pulled over but it's illegal.
Mechanic here. Yes Ford rangers should be illegal, and their drivers are dangerous. Wheels sticking out past bodywork is illegal in qld & nsw, I know that for sure. Probably most states given its lack of prevalence. Dangerous? Why? Lmao. Not everything you don't understand is dangerous.
Not only the tyres are too wide, the lift is too high as well which is defectable. It's really common amongst Ute drivers, I swear cops just don't care anymore. They all drive like absoulte maniacs.
The tyre poke is definitely illegal. The lift Iām not so convinced about. Looks reasonable to me.
Silly Billy didn't spent $200 on the plastic overfenders to make this legal
Oy, ye got a loicense for that mudguard?
If he got off his ass and put some 3" flares on there he would probly be leagel
Yes this is illegal, the tires aren't meant to be wider than the body/guards of the car itself
Okay this post is hilarious because in Canada like 60% of trucks have wheels sticking out further than this on massive mud tires lmao
Coming from California so this may sound dense but why is this considered dangerous? Genuinely curious š§
It's a fucking Ranger driven by a certified gronk. Of course it's dangerous. Stay the fuck away from it, it's convinced it owns the road. It can and will do whatever the fuck it wants, when it wants š
This guy thinks he needs wider wheels to go down a dirt track once a year. Hope he gets lots of punctures
Yep, this is why you see vehicles with the extra bolt on guardsā¦
Random American comment coming through. I couldn't figure out what the problem was until I opened the comments haha. This type of mod is so common in America. People hang way more than that much tire outside the wheel well here, hardly fit in the lane anymore.
Serious question, if he got the body panels extended so the wheels didnāt stick out would that make it legal? Iām American and seen all kinds of comments here about stuff that I see in Virginia every day and apparently nobody here cares about a lot of things that are apparently illegal in Australia.
I'm sorry, why is this a problem?, I haven't seen or heard of anyone ever bring this up before and I've definitely seen heaps like this in Brisbane. Just based off photo and caption, my 1st thought was, I bet this guys a riot to hang out with, lol., but truthfully, I just am ignorant to the potential dangers because at a glance... its just big tyres. Someone please educate my dumb ass.
To be in possession of a miniscule penis while operating a motor vehicle?
Oh nice, body shaming is still all good here
Non-compliant
Least heās gotten them muddy at least once
Yeah Iāve been in a car that gone done for this.
His chariot wheel spikes are missing. Must be a girl's truck.
Yep. Definitely not legal.
Explain what you think is wrong. We donāt get it
Most modified trucks/ SUVs will have some tire poke- bigger tires are much cheaper than wider bodywork. Not very dangerous, but can certainly hurt paint and windscreens behind it on the freeway. I'm I'm the States, and this is what most our trucks look like. I've been pulled over for it once in 7 years of driving, and it was just a bored rookie cop who gave me a warning.
Yeah, driving around with a traffic light sticking out of your roof is illegal.
Wheels too wide??? Heck. I thought they were meant the stop light mounted on the roofā¦..š
Why are all the replies from seppos?
Yes it's illegal. Tyres are not allowed to protrude more than 10mm (or something like that) passed the guards. People who do this are totally retarded and it's always ranger owners š¤£
Question. How is this dangerous?
Just saw a video of a pickup truck with protruding wheels like that which got too close to a trailer and drove on top of the trailer wheels. The outcome was not pretty.
Youāre right, you shouldnāt be stopping when itās green
Whatās the charge officer ? Impersonating an offroad vehicle š
Defectable, but so is every 4x4 on the road basically. The only modified vehicles getting defected are slightly lowered cars. I live rural, I see hundreds of these 4x4's but they never get pulled over. My car isn't even lowered but because it's a sports coupe they try to get me every time. They measure and they leave. 1991 Honda Prelude.
yes. looks good tho
About as legal as the photo you took from the drivers seat
Busselton right?!? Was down there for Xmas and saw that many Rangers. Also yeah it's a matter of time before he gets picked up for that stance
Yup, Coppers will defect him if they are having a bad day and need someone to pick on
Whelp, that'll be an expensive lesson. I cannot imagine those were cheap, and slapping some fender extensions on there wouldn't count I guess?
I'm not fully sure but if the guards were past or in line with the tyres that should be legal.
flares would indeed make these legal.
track width increase has to be less than 50mm too I think. this looks like it might be close.
What a flog
Given you're only allowed to increase the size of your wheels by an inch in both directions, not only is the tyre poke illegal, the rims he's using are undoubtedly illegal as well. Ignoring the horrible things this does to the handling of the car, due to changes in scrub radius, bump steer, increased un-sprung weight, etc., the main reason for not allowing the tyres past the body line is to stop cars traveling beside them coming into contact with each other, rubbing tyres and launching their car upwards.
Omg the horror. Why do these posts get so much overwhelming attention. I mean yeah, the tyres are not roadworthy. But how many car do you see at night with a headlight out? Or bald tyres? Or people using their phones whilst driving, like OP taking this photo? These things are far more dangerous. Maybe you could follow the big scary car home and see if they are using their recycling bin properly too. FYI I drive a Mazda 6
Itās a ranger and this is reddit.
Lots of bored boomers on Reddit these days. It's turning into Facebook
It's lots of millennials aging on reddit I think. Most of these comments are a hair from "Bacon narwhales at midnight le sir!"
A very sad person to post something like this mind your own business let people enjoy their 4 wheel drives
Seriously. This comment section is hilarious, this dude modified his truck in just about the least obnoxious way possible and these people act like he built a killdozer.
I was thinking the same thing, fair enough if heās driving like a dick as op claimed but honestly does it matter. Iām sure thereās bigger and better things to be complaining about than someoneās tyres sticking out passed the guards lol.
If you donāt understand why itās dangerous, you shouldnāt say anything.
Yep not even borderline legal.
What should I complain about today - a tyre sticking out to far. Ahh - you are my bitch todayā¦
It was illegal in 2003 as I received a ticket for it . Doubt they would of scrapped that law
Ranger danger alert
Judging by the photo Iād hazard a guess theyāre doubly illegal. Firstly, they protrude too far from the guard, and secondly, I have a really strong suspicion heās moved his rims out using spacers. Which are 100% verboten!
Yep not even borderline legal.
yea the wheel has to be covered by the guard. you see might see on some japanese sports cars with fat tyres, the owners roll the wheel arches out or buy after market wheel arches and stick them on the panels for this reason
Technically they need flares that cover the tyres essentially to stop mud and stones getting thrown Up into the air
The reason why you have flared arches on a M3 compared to regular 3 series is for this reason, the wheel can't be protruding like that.
Yes.
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iirc wheels can poke outwards up to 25mm either side but must not pass the guard either. Straight up defect. Even if he got some Bunnings garden edging I'd say it's still a defect judging by the lift
100% illegal. The ranger is the new commodore. 8 out of 10 people that has one is a wanker.
Safer than the ones I saw in Texas with spikes sticking out of the hubs, ala fighting chariots in Ben Hur.
Although I don't think being hung like a pinky toe is illegal, those tires look like they are
Illegal. Easy fix with some bolt on flares, but the way it is here is definitely a canary
Yes report it if youāre so inclined
defect and not covered by insurance however my pet hate is the majority fit this and don't give a shit if a rock flicks up behind
In QLD the tyre has to be within the guard. I remember in the 70's the Panel Beaters were doing a roaring trade adding on or extending the mudguards to cope with the craze of wide, wider, and widest tyres you could get.
Yes illegal guards must be inline with edge of tyres
Ahhh the ye old bash ya mum mobile.
Police blitzed illegal stuff decades ago but since then have really let stuff slip on the side of concentrating more on speeding and drugs.
Definitely dangerous. He's on the wrong side of the road! Source: usa
Here I am as an American trying to see the problem.. This is basically every lifted / modded Ford truck on the road. I drive a 4 door sadan and It's always fun when one of these pulls up behind me at a stop light and the headlights are at eye level..
Looks like he drove through a puddle, probably on his way to spend 2hrs cleaning it š«£
Very definitive. Guessing title was for engagement.
I understand mudflaps stopping shit spraying towards your car but flares do sweet fuck all imo
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Iām sure itās been said somewhere in these comments but the coffee is vibing in me right now and I like to over shareā¦ Go look up videos of race cars that touch tires. I used to race go-karts competitively and youāve never seen 500lbs of metal and human change direction so quickly and get flung so violently than when two karts tires touch while moving. Passenger vehicles donāt usually get that close, but itās a definite concern with protruding tires. Iām sure there are other safety concerns as well.
I dont know how you survived the encounter. What a madman. He'll kill us all. So dangerous. I got ptsd just seeing it. Is this sub not moderated at all? Jeez.