hey all. Just wonderuing how wide i can go (legally) with the tyres on my LJ.
i want to keep the stock rims, but possibly a 7" tyre on the rears and a 6" on the front.
Cheers, RIM
(haha, RIM is asking about Rims. How Ironic.)
How Wide can i go?
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, Apr 01 2006 09:44 PM
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Posted 02 April 2006 - 09:14 AM
In NSW you can go 25mm wider in the rims ..so if the biggest available rim was a 7 inch you can go 8 inch..but it isn't allowed to increase track width by more than 26 mm. You can go wider but it needs engineering.
Unsure what SA say about such things
Unsure what SA say about such things
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Posted 04 April 2006 - 09:15 AM
Actually, in NSW you can go 1inch either side of standard (unless it's changed in the last year), so if 6" is standard, you can go to 8" provided the track is not out by 25mm and you are allowed to go one inch greater in diameter.
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Posted 04 April 2006 - 09:49 AM
The RTA have made it nice and hard to chase answers...Vehicle Standard sheet No.9- Wheels and Tyres has been removed from the website...bummer.
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Posted 04 April 2006 - 09:59 AM
http://members.ozema...fy/dl/vsi09.pdf
This is what I was using for my info....seems we are both right....it depends on when your car was made.
As for diameter it says the wheel and tyre COMBINATION cant be more than 15 mm bigger (diameter) than the lagest available for the vehicle. So by that it says if you can get tyres of the correct profile 15, 16, 17, 18 in rims are perfectly legal and do not require an engineers cert.
I don't know if this is current though.
This is what I was using for my info....seems we are both right....it depends on when your car was made.
As for diameter it says the wheel and tyre COMBINATION cant be more than 15 mm bigger (diameter) than the lagest available for the vehicle. So by that it says if you can get tyres of the correct profile 15, 16, 17, 18 in rims are perfectly legal and do not require an engineers cert.
I don't know if this is current though.
Edited by FastEHHolden, 04 April 2006 - 10:05 AM.
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There is a new test under the National Vehicle Modification Guidelines that allows you to go as wide as you want, just need an engineer to certify that it passes the handling test, also documented in the National Vehicle Modification Guidelines Appendices.
On the LH/L34's the widest you can go is 100mm on the rear, 50mm on the front without poking out the L34 style flares. Dunno bout the A9X flares. Dunno nothing about LC/LJ's sorry.
EDIT: This document came into force in January of this year, and is one of these new so called "live" documents.
On the LH/L34's the widest you can go is 100mm on the rear, 50mm on the front without poking out the L34 style flares. Dunno bout the A9X flares. Dunno nothing about LC/LJ's sorry.
EDIT: This document came into force in January of this year, and is one of these new so called "live" documents.
Edited by Yella SLuR, 04 April 2006 - 10:08 AM.
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