Lowered vehicles tolerance

nz2293, Dec 17, 9:31am
is 100mm the lowest a car can be or is there a bit of tolerance eg 95mm

ninja_man, Dec 17, 9:31am
can be lower if certified.

esprit, Dec 17, 10:02am
No, 100mm is the lowest limit, as in if they can't fit a 100mm spacer underneath when in service (so if you set it to 100mm then fill the car full of people, it'll be lower and illegal)then it's green/pink stickered.

As said, it can be lower if certified, although what's the point! Road cars lower than 100mm generally handle like arse.

berg, Dec 17, 10:20am
Measured between road and structural, steering, suspension components. Exhaust and spoilers allowed to be lower but no part of a vehicle or its load allowed to drag on the road.

darryl, Dec 17, 2:10pm
What about the tyres - can they drag on the ground!

socram, Dec 17, 2:15pm
Must measure the height of my seat pan from the road.It hangs below the chassis rails.

smac, Dec 17, 3:59pm
My mini was under 100mm. Pain the arse (literally). Even the most average of drive ways would have the exhaust scrapping, and I once had somebody following me on a classic car run comment about the sparks I was trailing. That suspension was hard too, bugger all travel. On a bigger car that low it would be carnage at open road speeds.

berg, Dec 17, 5:19pm
That's a ticket to save for a real tosser. Same as "indicator works intermittently". Of course it bloody does, its an indicator.

xpfairmont, Dec 17, 8:08pm
no, they must turn.

bmc460, Dec 17, 8:13pm
Was the car run from Auckland to invercargill,good bye pork pie.

dave653, Dec 18, 12:58pm
Kaitaia to Invers!

smac, Dec 18, 5:05pm
Nah not quite. Couple of people from our club will be though:
http://www.porkpie.co.nz/section/about-the-event

darryl, Dec 19, 1:46pm
Gee - be pedantic then