Car ride height law

Flying-High_2

Strider590 wrote: »

Not if it's done correctly, with uprated springs and shortened shock absorbers.

A lower car has a lower centre of gravity, it's more stable at high speed, has less body roll in corners, is less likely to under/oversteer and doesn't pull a nose dive under heavy braking (= shorter stopping distances.)

Sure the boyracers do it to look like something from "Need for Speed Underground", but it does also serve a purpose.

OVER lowering was what was mentioned which is correct....

But you are right with the principle of lowering and lower centre of gravity etc....



Edited.... to add.... Anybody else sitting tight waiting for this to be a Law of Physics re-writing emotional ding-dong of a thread by our resident race car engineers?... Pass the pop-corn:D

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Of course all modifications like this need to be declared to insurers.

They also need to be up to MOT standards.

Jakg

I didnt think that if you broke C&U there was any real offence you could be done under?

cyclonebri1

Stryder I know, is talking about cars designed to have a very low road height. ie, track come road cars that are road legal as tested by SVA etc on completion, and checked anually for points of brake and steering contact by the annual MOT. There is curremtly no need to inform insurers of any modifications on this type of car either as there is no standard refference, it just has to stay legal.

Regarding the confusion between cars and vans, it just doesn't matter, they all have to satisfy the same regulations. I do wonder tho' how lowering a van twice as tall as the average car can be anything other than a "fashion statement",

Rossy.

Flying-High wrote: »

Edited.... to add.... Anybody else sitting tight waiting for this to be a Law of Physics re-writing emotional ding-dong of a thread by our resident race car engineers?... Pass the pop-corn:D

I was waiting for pics of this Barry boy special tbh

Visions of some wacky Ali G bodykit, 21" chrome blingers and a 100mm drop on the suspension... Not to mention the 1001db 50" big bore carpzhaust.

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Rossy. wrote: »

I was waiting for pics of this Barry boy special tbh

Visions of some wacky Ali G bodykit, 21" chrome blingers and a 100mm drop on the suspension... Not to mention the 1001db 50" big bore carpzhaust.

Similar visions here, so you are not alone.

Hammyman

Jakg wrote: »

I didnt think that if you broke C&U there was any real offence you could be done under?

Yes there is. My mate has a CU20 on his licence for having an insecure battery.

Hammyman

Don't forget the tyres which will have so much camber from the dropping that the insides will be bald whilst the outside edges still have the ring of paint on, lol.

Its amazing how many morons around here slam their cars to the ground with lower springs and shorter shocks and don't get the suspension re-aligned properly other than maybe tracking.

jayme1

how come this car is road legal then?


just as long as your insurance knows about the mods (so they cannot invalidate your insurance, therefore meaning you are driving without insurance which is illegal) there isn't any law about ride height,
but perhaps there should be a law against how silly it can look :rotfl:

Wig

eg-iain wrote: »

Hi,

I know this is a forum about money but i thought i might chance my luck to find out if any one of you know about a ride height law for cars.

As you might of seen about the uk some people like to have there cars stupid low, i'm one of them. Now i've been pulled over resently by a police man who stated to me this...

"we are bringing something in to deal with things like this"

To which i asked

"so is it a law then, if so where can i find out about it?"

The police man stated..

"yes it is a law and ermmm....it's on the website. Please can you step out the van we have to deal with someone else"

Slightly flustered by my questions may i add i have found nothing of the sort. And if they are "bringing something in" surely thats not a law...yet. I've never heard of anything like this apart from in the USA.

Anyone heard of this?

The crux of your post has already been answered, so I'm just left wondering, what happened next? Did the copper give you a ticket? Or just let you go after being a pain in the neck, What did he say he had stopped you for?