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Regarding legal OD I can confirm (for Queensland only) that 285/75R16 is not legal - that is the size of MTZs I want to put on my Patrol.
I had an interesting conversation with QT yesterday morning.
The proposal to adopt the National Code of Practice (VSB14) has been signed off by the Director General of QT and is now finalising a submission to the Minister (as a part of the LNP Government’s commitment to reducing red tape).
QT expect that the submission for change in regulation will be considered and agreed to by the Minister for Transport (after he consults other relevant Ministers (Small Business, Industry, Innovation etc etc) in the “next few weeks”, and then will take 5 weeks for Governor’s assent.
Following that, QT will advise the industry and allow the industry to prepare for it’s introduction over a 4 week period and all will be in place.
They are hoping to have it all finalised by September/October this year.
In short, QT have supported it's introduction in full and have recommended that to the new LNP Government.
As far a current tyre size, these links from Cooper and MT are helpful - the column on the right shows the over/under comparison with the Patrol placard size. Anything more than 15mm (on the Cooper page), or more than 804mm OD (on the MT page) in Qld is not legal.
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