^^ have you seen top gear when Jeremy drives it and his face gets all smashed up?? hahah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWoo82zNUA

 

yeah...it is just sick how fast that thing is

 

http://dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc24008.htm

24008. It is unlawful to operate any passenger vehicle, or commercial vehicle under 6,000 pounds, which has been modified from the original design so that any portion of the vehicle, other than the wheels, has less clearance from the surface of a level roadway than the clearance between the roadway and the lowermost portion of any rim of any wheel in contact with the roadway.

Whoever said that the car can't be lower than your rims is correct.

 

well that is a lot lower than what a lot of us have dropped our Scions...

 

I've got a 2 inch drop front and rear... if I went any lower I'd be tucked and scrape the hell out of my tC.... my drop is as low as I can go and still have it be a DD in my neck of the woods...lol

 

They don't seem to have a problem with trucks being lifted...cause their not dangerous at all.......They can practically run over a family sedan.

 

out of curioustiy, did anyone here try the NF210 springs from TANABE?

 

+1

 

I got pulled over in my old car for window tint and cop was trying to say my car was too low and didn't have enough fender gap but he said he couldn't do anything because I had a legal inspection. I have never heard of anyone being ticket for too low either.

 

My friend from NY says that NYC cops give these out. I just thought my friend was wrong because I never heard of it.

It probably varies from state to state, but I personally don't know of anyone that got one.

 

Just don't be rolling around on airbag suspension if it isn't on "Ride Height" and you'll be fine.

California cops will just pull you over for your exhaust or tint instead. Yay!

 

i have been pulled over 4 times on my tc. im lowered and have HID's. TRD intake (not street legal). the only thing i got hassled for was not having a front plate. i have gotten two fix it tickets and two written warnings for it. absolutely no comments on being lowered and no comments on HID's.

 

http://vodpod.com/watch/326143-mtvs-...a-street-racer

at 30:46 the cop is giving out ticket for lowering car.

 

The Tanabe springs will be fine and you won't have a problem with the cops at all about being lowered.

 

I haven't seen that in a good moment. I believe there was a part of that documentary that got changed in later airings. I think I have both on tape but they're MIA in the computer room. In regards to lowering and tickets cars with airride are most likely to get one as some will try to show off while cruising and get caught slippin. If you're riding on lowering springs I don't know of any that get low enough to get you a ticket. If you have adjustable coilovers then it's possible to get too low. Like Roja said the bottom of the car body should be no lower than the bottom of the rim.

 

I remember a sport compact car article a few years ago, and they had a stock civic sedan, and in the article a cali state trooper told them that no part of the body could be lower than the middle of the rim. what a joke, but i could see the bottom of the rim being right. i had a '90 crx and its headlights were 20in from the ground stock.

 

yeah SURE.... lifted trucks aren't dangerous... LMAO..... the turn-over/flip-over rate of a lifted truck is way more than stock... you would have to try like hell to get a lowered car to flip....it's possible but not as easy as a lifted truck....and that's legal? just goes to show how F'ed up the traffic laws are in regards to modifications.

 

A few years ago, a cop friend of mine told me that in Virginia there is a minimum height requirement from the ground to the bumper; I believe it is 14". I'm not talking about the bumper cover, but the actual metal bumper under the cover.

Here, I found the Virginia legal code on vehicle suspension.

Section 46.2-1063 states:

Alteration of suspension system; bumper height limits; raising body above frame rail. -- No person shall drive on a public highway any motor vehicle registered as a passenger motor vehicle if it has been modified by alteration of its altitude from the ground to the extent that its bumpers, measured to any point on the lower edge of the main horizontal bumper bar, exclusive of any bumper guards, are not within the range of fourteen inches to twenty-two inches above the ground. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the range of bumper heights for motor vehicles bearing street rod license plates issued pursuant to § 46.2-747 shall be nine to twenty-two inches.

 

my dad and step mom are cops and i plan on being a cop and u can just do the tennis ball test toss the ball under your car and if it goes out through the back your good

 

Tennis ball test?! lol!!