G’day everyone
I’m in a Victorian 4wd club. At our recent meeting, the member who does all the work between the club and the Victorian association stood up and told us something.
Apparently, the federal government is currently organising new laws for lift on four wheel drives for all through out Australia (making state laws useless).
He told us that they’re going to make a 50mm (2 inches) limit on all your lift put together, that’s out of tyres,
suspension and body lift all put together, and there’s absolutely no way around it, no engineering certificates or anything.
I don’t know about other states, but in Victoria, I’m 99% sure the limit is 2 inches
suspension and 2 inches tyres, if the limit is made 2 inches out of all the car put together, 90% of four wheel drivers will have unroadworthy 4wd’s and will have to re modify their vehicles, especially the people with monster trucks.
I don’t know about other states, but in Victoria, at the moment the
police and everyone hardly enforce the lift laws we’ve already got. One thing the club believes will happen, when new federal laws are made by the federal government, the cops and Vic Roads will really crack down on lift and they’ll have no choice anyway because the federal government will give strict orders to the state
police and Vic Roads to strictly enforce it immediately, and when they start enforcing lift, they’re likely to start enforcing other laws, like competition tyres that are technically illegal to use on public land,
driving lights all over the roof, that sort of thing.
One thing to, members are saying that with how politicians and
police seem to love revenue raising from traffic infringements, this will be the perfect chance for it when 90% of four wheel drivers have illegal modifications on their cars.
The Victorian association is seeing what they can do, but apparently it doesn’t look good.