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does anyone else here try to keep their jeep street legal?

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#1 ·
does anyone else here try and keep their jeep street legal?
 
#3 ·
yjtj said:
My rig is still driven on a daily basis. My girlfriend drives it everywhere.
After my last competition, Chris Durham drove by me when I had the Jeep on trailer and wanted to know why I was pounding on the door opening with a sledge hammer, I told him that when the doors would slam shut, that I knew the body was close to where it was before the competition.
I can still put my soft top on, along with the doors, and I often drive it, on trips of several hundred miles up to Tahoe or out to Monterey, or wherever???.
 
#7 ·
Dan-H said:
Seriously Jeff, how close is your rig to being "street legal".

either you are just plain lucky, or the cops are afraid of you :vader:
Really its only missing fender flares to make it legal nearly anywhere.
However when I was living in Vegas and Reno,.....well they really dont care what you drive there.
I havent even been pulled over though since Ive been here in Sacto (Roseville, since last June).
I will probably make some clamp on fender flares so that Kathy can drive it around this summer.
 
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H8monday said:


After my last competition, Chris Durham drove by me when I had the Jeep on trailer and wanted to know why I was pounding on the door opening with a sledge hammer, I told him that when the doors would slam shut, that I knew the body was close to where it was before the competition.
I can still put my soft top on, along with the doors, and I often drive it, on trips of several hundred miles up to Tahoe or out to Monterey, or wherever???.
Funny. I've got all sorts of mods done and planned, but one requirement stays in force - the doors have to seal, and the top has to go on. All else is fair game. :D

There's plenty I could (and have) been busted for, but I don't care - I build it to play on the trails. The fact I have to use it as a daily driver and I don't have a tow rig are secondary. :blender:

Paul
 
#11 ·
We're lucky around here...
As long as you have a legit license plate when tooling around, all is well...
No windshield, flairs, doors, hood, or what ever needed :p
And usually you don't even need tags if you appear to be heading to a local off-road destination.
It's a Good Thing ... :smokin:
 
#12 ·
No third tail light, no mirrors when the doors are off (whenever it's not raining), too loud, probably wouldn't pass smog because i can smell it when I drive, tires stick about an inch out of fenders, no front licence plate.

I live in Texas so the cops aren't very bad about trucks. I've only been pulled over a few times, once was because it was 3am and the front licence plate was the only thing he could get me for, just a warning. The only ticket I ever got was doing a donut on the beach 30 miles down the South Padre Island National seashore, past a sign that says "4whee drive required" the cop said that it was just like a road so anything could be ticketed that could be ticketed on the road. The bastard got me for wreckless driving. :rainbow:
 
#13 ·
The INSIDE of my 38's are damn near on the OUTSIDE of my rear fenders. Fronts even worse. I have removable extended flairs on it now (zip tied on) that come off as soon as I even smell dirt. Also have flaps that are shove in and hitch pin. I leave em in the back though. I HATE the way they look.

So far, on ticket. In Napa driving through with no flares. I have'nt got harrassed yet in Sac though.
 
#16 ·
I think everything is street legal in FL:D

You should see some of the chit people drive around; sand rails, 44's on Fords with about 30" lift, front lift blocks :)eek:), all kinds of junk.

I really think they don't care at all.

When I took my Jeep to get the registered/tags all they did was check the VIN# and walk away. Could've cared less about what it looked like or ran like.

IN was the the same way:D
 
#17 ·
Well, this is an issue that we wrestle with all the time.

First of all, we have sub divided it into 2 definitions:

a) Street Legal meaning you can daily drive it without any problems (drives nice on the street and is legal)

and

b) Street Legal meaning you can get from your driveway to a trail without getting a ticket.

They are two different things.

And the one thing which is hard to get around in terms of (b), around here, is flares. We can get through the vehicle inspection, blah blah blah, and most cops don't care about the flares, but if you really don't want a ticket, your flares have to come within a couple of inches of the outside of your tires.

This is causing much 'knashing of teeth' with me personally, because I want to high hood mine so I can get 38.5 SXs on without any more lift, but I can't figure out how to get flares on to the fiberglass hood. Not quite sure if flat fendering it will give me enough room, and even if it does, I still have the problem of attaching flares.

UGH!
 
#19 ·
Yup

Well, we try... here in PA there are inspections.... to pass inspection, our bumper must be 30" at the lowest point, but we can put smaller tires on for the inpsection. Your tires shouldn't extend out of the flares, we try to at least be close....

We have a truck & trailer, but still like to be able to drive a jeep around if we like...
 
#20 ·
mine's as legal as a porn star on her 18th birthday.
they check height to the bottom of the door in NJ.
I should be fine, but I might have to check my tire air pressure before going up to the tape measure :)

and NJ sucks, my Jeep toes the line of legal, and it's a barbie Jeep on the POR bell curve
:mad:
 
#22 ·
Helps to have it registered in a state that isn't as strict. As long as you don't get pulled over for other crap, you can get away with it for quite a long time. I feel sorry for those registered in California. Must be a nightmare building a rig and having to worry about that too.
 
#26 ·
i live in indiana. and the cops r not bad here.. they dont really care. only real ticket ive got in my jeeps was in 96 .. during high school doing donuts in the soccer field with 4 other trucks isnt smart escpially if the chief of police lives behind the soccer field.

he chew r ass;s out for over a hour then gave us all light tickets.. casue it was 1 in the morring and every one had ther kc's on.. thats what woke him up that and the open headers of a 460 n a high boy..lmao.. thank god for hill billly cops!~
 
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