Qld laws

[Drewboyaus]

I to have been asking about lift limits in QLD legally and insurable limit is 2inch lift (suspension) 2inch body lift and 2inch bigger than factory wheel size anything else and you may have trouble words of the QLD RTA .
although I have talked to guys with 4 inch lifts( which is what I want also) and they say they don't even get looked at.

From what ive seen clean modern touring looking vehicles lifted probably get away with it but the young guys getting around with cut trays cut guards 35s muddies and probably cut exhausts to by the sound of them draw the unneeded attention.

Im in the same boat would like all this but at the same time my Nissan is my daily work vehicle so im trying to find happy medium as you may get away with it for years or the first cop or rta car to pull you over may put you off the road depending on how there day is going and I personally cant afford to do these things and come across problems.
this is why I joined thid forum to ask similar questions and see what guys do and don't get away with. will be following this post as all replies will be helpful for me also

Mate, stick with what's legal. Why would you want to lift it any more than 2inches anyway?
A 2 inch lift, good tyres and a diff lock will get you 98% of places. Anywhere else and you're possibly breaking stuff, which given yours is a daily is something I suspect you don't want to be doing.....


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[NP99]

Mate, stick with what's legal. Why would you want to lift it any more than 2inches anyway?
A 2 inch lift, good tyres and a diff lock will get you 98% of places. Anywhere else and you're possibly breaking stuff, which given yours is a daily is something I suspect you don't want to be doing.....


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[Morton]

So if I’m a tourist from another country travailing with my car from another country, I get a permit to travel on Australia’s roads and an international license. I still have to conform to each states regulations. Or is this different. If so then when travelling interstate then maybe we need to apply for a permit for our cars and an interstate driver’s license.

they apparently only target the more modified vehicles with illegal mods but everyone that I have spoken with usually fight it as the vehicle is legal in their state. Your drivers licence is National, ur vehicle registration is also national, it is the modifications that are not national, Queensland & NT Police are the toughest & it is based on that officers INTERPRETATION of that code or law, usually a letter to the proper Authorities is enough to squash it but it is the inconvenience of it all

[mudski]

something else to think about. From Vic Roads

VicRoads Customer Service Hi Jeff – ADR 18/02 specifies for vehicles manufactured after January 1995 must have a speedometer that indicates the actual vehicle speed, for all speeds above 40 km/h, to an accuracy of ± 10 per cent.

Yet you can be booked for speeding within the 10percent... Go figure.

[NP99]

Yet you can be booked for speeding within the 10percent... Go figure.

Or here in Qld, some days are zero tolerance.......

[Drewboyaus]

Or here in Qld, some days are zero tolerance.......

Nah, there is always 10%. At least in Victoria anyway. I was walking the dog one day and wandered past a camera car and the bloke had his door open (no I didn't set the dog on him) LMAO. Had a chat to him and watched the cars go past. When I asked why a car that registered at 65 wasn't photographed he said the camera didn't go off until 67.
They then factor in the error of the laser of 3km/h and Bobs your uncle, you receive a fine in the mail for doing 64km/h.
Made sense to me.

[Ben-e-boy]

Nah, there is always 10%. At least in Victoria anyway. I was walking the dog one day and wandered past a camera car and the bloke had his door open (no I didn't set the dog on him) LMAO. Had a chat to him and watched the cars go past. When I asked why a car that registered at 65 wasn't photographed he said the camera didn't go off until 67.
Made sense to me.

Nope in Qld the 10% leway has been lowered

[Drewboyaus]

Nope in Qld the 10% leway has been lowered

That's true, but they don't tell you which 10%.....
I reckon the lowered tolerance relates to the machine, not your speed.
As above, the machine tolerance will have been lowered as the technology gets better. Given the Australian standards allow a +/- 10% error in speedo readings it would almost be almost impossible to prosecute.

[Wazza_66]

From 2007 the rule changed. The speedo is now no longer allowed to read a speed above what the vehicle is doing. It has to be a 'safe' reading. It is also 10% plus 4 km/h so the speedo could indicate 114 and you are doing 100. At 100 on the speedo you could be doing anything between 83 and 100. So if you are picked up for speeding in a car manufactured after 2007, you are in fact speeding.

[janderson]

From 2007 the rule changed. The speedo is now no longer allowed to read a speed above what the vehicle is doing. It has to be a 'safe' reading. It is also 10% plus 4 km/h so the speedo could indicate 114 and you are doing 100. At 100 on the speedo you could be doing anything between 83 and 100. So if you are picked up for speeding in a car manufactured after 2007, you are in fact speeding.

that's right but pre 2007 vehicles are still + or - 10%