I am in the process of redoing my rig. My wife and I have been talking about narrowing the picnic table known as my hood, and the frontend. I don't drive my rig on the street that much but do like to be able to drive around Big Bear and places like that some times. My question is simple....Is a pinched frontend street legal? The fronts of the tires will be exposed.

I don't see why it would be ilegal , worst case I think would be to have to add mudflaps to the front .

welcome to modifying vehicle in the great republik of Commiefornia start reading http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/vc/vc.htm

http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27600.htm tread has to be covered - so no it wouldn't be legal without fender flares and likely mud flaps.. would you get cited for it?? depends on how you drive and what kind of cop pulls you over.


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well thank you very much for the link. It appears that if I only expose the front of my tire, I will be ok. It states that I have to prevent debris and water from being thrown backwards.. The rear of my fender will still cover my tire and I don't have severe offset wheels so they fit under my fenders now.

iv also wondered this sweet good to know