Illegal Car Mods.

[heapsgood]

In S.A, there is much confusion over what mods are illegal i.e. coilovers, oil catch can (i think some can be legal if set up right?) just shit like that.

What are the laws on that stuff in S.A and in other states...

[heapsgood]

I've also heard of people getting defected for a woodgrain steering wheel :s

[mad082]

don't know about the getting booked for having a woodgrain steering wheel, but if the steering wheel is too small you can get booked for it.

[sh@un]

maybe the steering-wheel defect was due to removing an airbag wheel to fit it. probably wasn't anything to do with what it was made of

unless 'woodgrain' referred to a short length of 4x2 attached to the top of the steering column

[mad082]

bahahaha

[jrm]

The SA Transport website has a lot of information about what is and isnt allowed (steering wheels, tint, exhaust, ride height), etc.

Also see the 'defect' thread in the SA area for specific questions (there's a lot of information in there already). It generally isn't too hard to keep your car legal, even in SA where they're a little more strict than other states.

[Galois]

and http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/geared/ for nsw is pretty useful. there are a lot of mods that are very hard to spot tho, unlike huge high mount turbos, bov's and fmic's lol

[EMZ R33]

Hi guys, check my R33 GTS sedan, ive just put up heaps of pics of recent changes ive made to it including legal front daytime driving lights. The thing is they have to be white, facing foward of the car and emit no more than 18W of power. have fun with this mod it looks pretty sweet:)

What do you guys think??

[R34Liner]

Hi guys, check my R33 GTS sedan, ive just put up heaps of pics of recent changes ive made to it including legal front daytime driving lights. The thing is they have to be white, facing foward of the car and emit no more than 18W of power. have fun with this mod it looks pretty sweet:)

What do you guys think??

i think you want an Audi

[scathing]

What do you guys think??

^ It looks like your car is trying not to cry, but is tearing up at the bottom of the eyelid.

[dan_the_man]

yea man. wtf is your car crying? bad fuel? rough ride?

well? what is it?

[.:: GimpS-R34 ::.]

his exhaust pipe was 1 1/2inch.. now its 3inch.. with no lube..

[jrm]

Careful of those 'white' LEDs - Regency made me remove mine claiming they were 'too blue' .. (yours definitely seem to have hints of blue in them..)

[EMZ R33]

Careful of those 'white' LEDs - Regency made me remove mine claiming they were 'too blue' .. (yours definitely seem to have hints of blue in them..)

Here are mine in the evening

http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/EMZ...nt=005f4ce5.jpg

same colour at the parking lights and ive had them on for 5 years now and no probs or looks from the police. I think you an buy diffeent types of these LED strips of ebay and just have to be carefull not to get the supposed "white LEDs" from china. Ive found buying from an australian seller more than often gives you a better chance of gettnig a true white colour

Thanks for the heads up though. Also i have them on a seperate toggle switch to the parkers, which for true daytime driving lights they need to be a seperate unit.

Have a good one guys

[EMZ R33]

his exhaust pipe was 1 1/2inch.. now its 3inch.. with no lube..

Well actully i got rid of my 6" cannon and put a X2 2.5" tail pipe on to change things up.............but good on you for trying to guess what ive got!

[EMZ R33]

yea man. wtf is your car crying? bad fuel? rough ride?

well? what is it?

Its actully a very happy minded car haha!

good economy, sweet sound and the LEDs look very classy during the day, i do get its an aquired taste but you dont need knock it cause its different.

[EMZ R33]

Check out my other mods

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Emz-R33-t317321.html

Have a good one

[tsamba]

at the end of the day, its up to the 'officers discretion'. if they think its defect material they can send you to regency. thats what i've learnt from experience, really sucks though because there is so much you can do to make your car look nice, but it also attracts the wrong attention.

[EMZ R33]

at the end of the day, its up to the 'officers discretion'. if they think its defect material they can send you to regency. thats what i've learnt from experience, really sucks though because there is so much you can do to make your car look nice, but it also attracts the wrong attention.

Your spot on!

When i got pulled over for my led lights( were blue at the time, now changed to white), there were two officers, one younger cadette and an old school full grey beard officer. The young officer was commenting how tidy the car was and how good condition it was in for a 1994 car. I told him that i look after and treat it nicelly. The other officer just looked at me and coninued to comb the entire car for defects!

so yeah nice to look at, but at the same time im getting tired of being look at by the wrong people haha!

[oh-so-swift]

In syd, my friend got a ticket for not having water in his wiper reserve tank !!!

there are ways around mods though,

you can hide things like turbos, ecu, BOVs, best place for a BOV is under a fender. I think people usually get booked when an officer has lots of shiny things to look at. Shiney stainless steel piping, blue silicon hoses are a good sign of something else sleeping under the bonnet.

To be honet, i much prefer the stealth look, i have black intercooler piping, black BOV, black Boost controller, ecu is hidden, BOV is under fender, black runners surrounded by black heat sheild,

next thing on the list, black rocker cover. Its still all there, but its not staring you in the face is all im saying.