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I was told the other day:-

-There is NO legal lowering limit ie you cannot legally lower your import

-NO TINT is legal on an import

and basically that ANY modifications are defectable.

Can someone please clarify? There must be heaps of people that have had to get there car off defect by now, do the cars have to be returned completely stock??

How about coilover suspension, even if its set at the standard height?

cheers guys

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This site: http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/publication...pdfs/Info19.pdf

States you suspension must have 2/3rds of the travel of the suspension fitted by the manufacturer.

This site:

http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/dbsearch/d...IGHT_HITS=False

State you must have 100mm clearance to the ground, and that window tinting is not to allow less than 70% of the light through, or 35% for the back windows, blah, blah.

They are both govt sites, but I would be ringing up regency and asking where the new legislation (to the 1999 road rules) is that states imports have to be stock. I think perhaps he is refering to the new compliance laws for grey imports, which state that the cars have to be stock.????

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I think he must mean those things for compliance.

I just got through regency Friday and the legal height limit is 360mm or something (from memory) but it varies for Turbo and N?A and R33 and R32 etc.

You are allowed to have tint, just not on front windows.

Its basically at Regency Park's discretion as to whether they feel in the right mood on the day when you go down there. They could let you through or crack down on you. When all they need to do is comply with the Australian Design Rules.

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