Yes I've Searched! :flipoff2:

I've been wanting to flat-fender my YJ since the fenders are mangled now anyways.

Since so many of you are CA residents, how often do the CHP get all pissy about tire coverage issues? You been stopped for tire coverage?

I drive my heep everyday a grueling 2 miles to work :p , so I'm not too worried about cops, I just don't want to be harrassed all the time. :mad:

My YJ is running 33's that stick out about 2"s already. In case anyone cares.

Yep, I'm new here so :flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

Just drive it. My commute is 10 miles each way everyday.

I guess it kind of depends where you are.. but in sac area they dont seem to give a fawk.

they looked it up when i went to fix my ticket. they can not stick out past the fender at all. the cop used a yard stick from the fender to the tire to make sure that they were in there. true this cop was a total bitch but it's what they found when they looked it up. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Rerard
I guess it kind of depends where you are.. but in sac area they dont seem to give a fawk.

That isnt so true....Last year I had 8 fix it tickets for tires and mudflaps on my dodge!!

It all depends on how big and how far your tires stick out!

:eek: Those 40" boggers look like bagels.

Originally posted by The Rockslut
Just drive it. My commute is 10 miles each way everyday.

damn that thing's perty!!
edit: until my rig was stricken with death wobble I drove it alot, and my only mudflap ticket was on the sand highway in pismo beach svra!!

I've been driving my suzuki like this since about last September and haven't been hassled about the tires. They stick out about 3 inches past the stock flares.

Until a couple months ago my commute was about 10 miles each way. Now I have no commute since they laid me off.

http://home.attbi.com/~rokzuki/pics/spoa5.jpg

Originally posted by Aggro


damn that thing's perty!!
edit: until my rig was stricken with death wobble I drove it alot, and my only mudflap ticket was on the sand highway in pismo beach svra!!


My rig still has DW and i drive it daily. Makes for fun in the morning and afternoon commute. I tell you what, people will make ROOM for a full width YJ when the 40's are shaking left to right violently and i am looking straight ahead like nothings happening.

Oh yeah Aggro........................................:flip off2:

about half of my tire sticks out of the fender and I haven't had any problems since I put them on about 2yrs ago.

Originally posted by The Rockslut



My rig still has DW and i drive it daily. Makes for fun in the morning and afternoon commute. I tell you what, people will make ROOM for a full width YJ when the 40's are shaking left to right violently and i am looking straight ahead like nothings happening.

Oh yeah Aggro........................................:flip off2:

I love that stuff, you're looking/driving like nothing is awry and the oncoming traffic is eyes bugged out, freaking out. My death wobble is so bad I can't go over 25mph and that would suck on hwy 50 trying to get to work!! and yep-:flipoff2:

Originally posted by The Rockslut



My rig still has DW and i drive it daily. Makes for fun in the morning and afternoon commute. I tell you what, people will make ROOM for a full width YJ when the 40's are shaking left to right violently and i am looking straight ahead like nothings happening.

Oh yeah Aggro........................................:flip off2:

You should see the look when the Dodge starts doing that!!

Originally posted by RudeZuk


You should see the look when the Dodge starts doing that!!

We should put a DW caravan together and drive across sacramento. It would be a 5mph parade of some of this areas most pissed off rigs that cant be safely driven at highway speeds but are. :D Sorta like the special Olympics for 4wds

3rd fix it ticket in 2 yrs:(

from what i know, the tires cant stick out past the fender at all, and all trucks must have mud flaps covering 3/4 of the tire.. or at least from what i have heard, but could be wrong.

Originally posted by PW
from what i know, the tires cant stick out past the fender at all, and all trucks must have mud flaps covering 3/4 of the tire.. or at least from what i have heard, but could be wrong.


Actually what it says is that you can have any tire sticking out past the fenders, if you to there must be a mud flap that will cover the top 2/3's of the tire and be as wide as the tire width.

You dont have to put flares over the top of the tire, just a flap that will cover the top of the tire as you look from behind the vehicle at the tire.

And some tickets have been given and they try to check that it is a non correctable violation.....THIS IS FALSE, they can never give you a non correctable violation for mud flaps.................make sure you remember that......

Also, the law only states that you have to put flaps on the rear tires.....not the front ones too!


Oh i got a fix it ticket just past placerville in the zuk.....the cop got all mad cause my tires were sticking out 12" past my fenders......so:flipoff2:

I drive mine every day, if you have they dont care too much about the front it is the rear that they will give you shit about. If you have mud flaps then it shouldn't be a problem. Now with your 33's you should have nothing to wory about. You can still run your flares you just cut them also. Don't wory about it just do it.

this is what I found

Vehicle Code Section 27600

No person shall operate any motor vehicle having three or more wheels, any trailer, or semitrailer unless equipped with fenders, covers, or devices, including flaps or aprons, or unless the body of the vehicle or attachments thereto afford a dequate protection to effectively minimize the spray or splash of water or mud to the rear of the vehicle and all such equipment or such body or attachments thereto shall be at least as wide as the tire tread.
This section does not apply to those vehicles exempt from registration , trailers and semitrailers having an unladen weight of under 1500 pounds, or any vehicle manufactured and first registerd prior to January 1, 1971, having an unladen weight of under 1500 pounds.

I found this at www.leginfo.ca.gov

:)

careful guys u know how Murphy's law goes. i asked Gozuki if he ever got pulled over for his tires sticking out and he was pulled over that night on his way home from my house. that sucks.
:flipoff2: :flipoff2:
u think the cops would have better things to do and bigger fish to fry.

Originally posted by Gozuki
3rd fix it ticket in 2 yrs:(
Got a pic of how bad they stick out? Do you have flaps?
Some of these Camarillo police are just fix-it nazi's. I got 2 fix-its on Las Posas for a cracked windshield and covered lisence plate (tube bumper covered bottom half of numbers). Drove it like that for about a year though :D




Originally posted by RocnWilly
careful guys u know how Murphy's law goes. i asked Gozuki if he ever got pulled over for his tires sticking out and he was pulled over that night on his way home from my house. that sucks.
:flipoff2: :flipoff2:
u think the cops would have better things to do and bigger fish to fry.

Like I said, fix-it nazi's:flipoff2:

I got popped on silverado trail in napa, loppy got it there too
btw my commute is about 60miles + i go to clients sites, I can do 700 miles in a wk :rolleyes:

I put flaps on, and even took off those 6" wide flares (cut stock flares now)

they come right of with a pin, here i forgot to take em off.

I LIVE IN SAN LUIS OBISPO AND THE POLICE LOVE PULLING PEOPLE OVER FOR STUPID REASONS LIKE MUD FLAPS. I JUST GOT MY THIRD FIX-IT TICKET SIGNED OFF TWO DAYS AGO. ONCE YOU GET ONE, JUST KEEP IT WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET TAGGED FOR THE SAME THING TWICE WHILE YOU'RE IN THE "FIXING IT" GRACE PERIOD. SO YOU HAVE ABOUT A MONTH OF MUD-FLAP PROOF DRIVING. "I'M IN THE PROCESS OF FIXING IT OFFICER, HERES THE TICKET I GOT LAST WEEK..." I THINK THAT MADE SENSE.

OH YEAH, I RUN FULL WIDTH, THERES LIKE 8-9" OUTSIDE THE FLARES

OH YEAH, ONE MORE THING.

I MADE MY FLAPS OUT OF SOME LEFT OVER TUBE AND TWO DOOR MATS THAT ARE ZIP TIED TO MY REAR BUMPER. IT GETS SIGNED OFF EVERY TIME. LOW BUDGET BABY!!

3rd one is a "failure to comply" I believe

"I got 2 fix-its on Las Posas for a cracked windshield and covered lisence plate " How do you think your windshield gets cracked ?

My last cracked windshield cost over $200. The deductable is $500. Thats why you cover the Fawkin tires. :rasta:

Originally posted by RudeZuk


That isnt so true....Last year I had 8 fix it tickets for tires and mudflaps on my dodge!!

It all depends on how big and how far your tires stick out!


damn that sucks... I havent had any but then again mine dont stick out as far as yours.

Originally posted by Lil Uzi
"I got 2 fix-its on Las Posas for a cracked windshield and covered lisence plate " How do you think your windshield gets cracked ? My last cracked windshield cost over $200. The deductable is $500. Thats why you cover the Fawkin tires. :rasta:

thats right, ya get pulled over for one thiing then they find a bunch of other stuff. my mudflap ticket ended up costing me $450:rolleyes:

I got an insurance rider for windsheilds, I think its $50 a yr, $100 deduct.

Originally posted by RudeZuk


That isnt so true....Last year I had 8 fix it tickets for tires and mudflaps on my dodge!!

It all depends on how big and how far your tires stick out!

Do you work in Folsom. Seems like I have seen that truck around town around the lunch hour.

Originally posted by Howdy


Do you work in Folsom. Seems like I have seen that truck around town around the lunch hour.

Yeah i do, and almost all of my tickets have been from folsom cops!! Hate those guys!

I havent had any problems yet in my ugly POS LOL.. Its flatfender cut in the front, TJ flare cut in the rear, but I don't run any flares, and I drive 70 miles each way to work every day.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid23/p5535bf5df5fc56efd8dc54fcb671c3ed/fd9c75ee.jpg
Scott

Originally posted by Lil Uzi
How do you think your windshield gets cracked ?

My last cracked windshield cost over $200. The deductable is $500. Thats why you cover the Fawkin tires. :rasta:

My windshield got cracked when 2 of my buddies WITH mudflaps decided to do donuts in the dirt. A huge wall of rocks came flying at me and cracked the windshield in 7 spots, and put a dent in the fender and one in the door:eek: I was so pissed I punched 2 holes in one guy's fender.:D Only cost me $125 to get the windshield replaced, and a $10 proccessing fee after the fix-its were signed off. And at that time, my tires were covered:rasta:

These are much more obvious, so I'm sure I'll be seeing the rednblue lights soon...:D

I drive To cameron park every day from placervile. Havent gotten pulled over latey, or i take that back on 50 comming back from the CON, but other then that i have been pretty lucky. I just leave my mud flaps in the back seat and when i get pulled over i just say "oh im sorry officer i was in a hurry and forgot to put them on, ill do it right now, it usually always works.

i see u got the tires mounted Gozuki. looks good. hows the golf ball balance job?

the CHP on Las Posas r real aholes. the other day a friend of mine was driving in to work and the CHP was flying in the opposite direction with no lights. scared the hell out of my friend. good thing he didn't crossover the line.

Go here if you wanna...

http://200.155.1.101/publicos/goto?AID=23215

http://200.155.1.101/publicos/goto?AID=25511

The flares work really well, were cheap / easy to make and the cops don´t bug me...

:beer: :beer:

Originally posted by drtfun4x
this is what I found

Vehicle Code Section 27600


This section does not apply to those vehicles ...or any vehicle manufactured and first registerd prior to January 1, 1971, having an unladen weight of under 1500 pounds.

I found this at www.leginfo.ca.gov

:)

Now, if I could only get my '64 Scout down to 1500 pounds!:p

Kinda looks like I'm going to have to bring out the sawzall and pick up some rear TJ flares.

Maybe tonight after we fix the torn spring hanger (oops), I'll mark off the lines and get to chopping. How do I keep it from looking like it was chewed off by a rabid wolvering? Nevermind, I'll figure it out.

Thanks for the input.

(Knock on wood) I have yet to be stopped by the police, I guess they know my heep can't go too fast anyway.

Full width jeeps will probably be more of a target. Cops probably just want to get the eye sores off the road! :flipoff2: :flipoff2: Plus if you get out of your rig saying "dude wtf?" to the cop........chances are you're gonna get a ticket.