Ticket or pulled over for tire sticking out of rear fender?

[tbeede]

Hey everybody,

I'm new to so-cal and kinda wanted to know how serious the cops are down here about tires sticking out from the body of the truck. I'm going to order some poison spyder crusher corners and tube fenders. I've already got wider axles over stock so my tires stick out a few inches from the fender. I really want to order the body armor without fender because I like the way it looks. Anybody have trouble with the cops in the area with this?

[j.kimball]

yes i have had problems. do not put those fenders on with no flairs unless you want to get real friendly with the local police.

[mad_boi]

Couple years back I got pulled over for speeding and the cop was nice enough to tack on a fix-it ticket for no rear bumper and tire coverage(or lack of).
That means mud flaps and fender flares

[tbeede]

yeah... I really hate to order the 3" flair... I just can't commit. I might just run the ones with no flair and attach my plastic fender for street driving... I'll be living around Huntington Beach in the OC

[Black01taco]

I would order the protection forsure... Just put on some big ass removable mud flaps so the popos don't mess with ya.. They are usually ugly as hell, but shit its better then getting a fix-it-ticket. …

[tbeede]

guess the fix-it-ticket comes from living smack dab in one of the major urban centers of the world... up in rural NorCal I once met a guy who has a sweet TJ rubicon on full widths and no fenders. Super clean rig and a real head turner... only time he got pulled over was cause the cop wanted to take a better look and admire the rig!

[TroyToy]

Huntinton And Newport Are Horrible Area S Really Famous For Fix It Tickets

[Po' riggity]

I got pulled over JUST for that reason. My front and rear tires had no tire coverage. I got lucky, it was 11pm and the cop wanted to go home, so no ticket for me.
Scott

[MtnYota]

In San Diego, I have nothing covering my rear tires on my yota and have been DD it for bout a year now and have been followed a couple times, but never pulled over. And I don't even have a mounted lisence plates. Prob just a matter of time

[StinkBug]

By the letter of the law you do NOT need flares in CA. It states that you must have fenders, splash aprons, OR flaps adequate to minimize spray of water to the rear. Key word there is OR. They dont require any one of those items. My truck is dovetailed with the inside of the tire about 4" outside the fender. I run big ass semi truck flaps on removable mounts. I got a ticket a while back at one of those random licence checks because I didn't have em on. After putting them back the CHP signed off the ticket. The cop told me straight up that he didn't like it, but it did meet the law so he had to sign it off.


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[hurleygo3]

Originally Posted by Cal Mini Trucks

Huntinton And Newport Are Horrible Area S Really Famous For Fix It Tickets

x2 Huntington might be the worst place in Socal for fix it tickets

[surveyboy]

i was running full widths on my cj for 2 years around ontairo and rancho cucamonga. never got a ticket or a second look. after about 8 months living in the mountains, on a early sat. morning when i was a bundled up looking like a hoodlum, i got pulled over and issued a fix it ticket.

so, it just depends on where ya are

[RoCkSkuLLz]

I get away with most of my 40" MTR's out of the wheel well on my Wrangler. ALthough I live in a small So cal mtn. community so we don't see too many cops. They used to hassle me all the time when I had my fenders comp cut. After changing them back to custom offset wheel well PSC corners they dont seem to mind as much. (Knock on wood)

[surveyboy]

Originally Posted by RoCkSkuLLz

I get away with most of my 40" MTR's out of the wheel well on my Wrangler. ALthough I live in a small So cal mtn. community so we don't see too many cops. They used to hassle me all the time when I had my fenders comp cut. After changing them back to custom offset wheel well PSC corners they dont seem to mind as much. (Knock on wood)

lol, i got pulled over by the skate park in crestline at 7am on a sat. morning LOL

prolly was one of the first people the chiper saw after getting on duty that morning from twin peaks LOL

[TeenyCAR]

So far so good.

[MendoXJ]

wow, love that stance!

[CherokeeTerrorist]

i live in Long Beach, and have zero issues. Too many gang shootings for them to care about the white guy with big tires

[TotalImmortal]

i dont dd my pos but i haven't gotten pulled over yet...

[RockinFJ]

I'd say as long as your whole tire dosen't stick out you'd fine. Just don't draw attention to yourself by driving stupid. My buddy is a cop and he says if they are bored they look for anything, so that's probably why Surveyboy got pulled over that morning!

[_peteyg]

Most city cops won't pull you over for equipment violationsl, because those are state regs. The city gets no money from those tickets, so there's no point. They will tack it on, though, if you get pulled for something else and give 'em a hard time.

CHP LOVES to give mud flap tickets, though, especially in North County San Diego.

[SanDiegoCJ]

Originally Posted by _peteyg

CHP LOVES to give mud flap tickets, though, especially in North County San Diego.

There's an especially aggressive CHP prick in the Ramona, Ca. area.

[adampfisters]

http://www.4x4xplor.com/mudflaps.html

This is an idea - they are quick release mud flaps. Catapillar makes some as well - they basically slide into a 'socket' that is perm. mounted and you just put a pin through there. You can either run them all the time and take them off when wheeling or keep them in your rig and when/if pulled over, tell the cop "oh man, I was doing some work and just took them off" Grab them and put them on right there = no ticket. They will fit under your back seat so they don't really get in the way.

[Budd]

I don't know if they target vehicles by year or what - I have had zero issues. My tires are nearly completely exposed front and rear. I know there is a clause that someone quoted about age of vehicle related. My 68 doesn't qualify - but maybe they think it does?

I drive through HB all the time. Seal Beach police even pulled up behind me once when I ran out of gas and was filling up on the side of PCH with my gas can. Just asked if I needed any help.

[SoCalWheeler71]

Originally Posted by tbeede

I'll be living around Huntington Beach in the OC

Originally Posted by Cal Mini Trucks

Huntinton And Newport Are Horrible Area S Really Famous For Fix It Tickets

X3! The cops in Newport are well known to be the worst about this type of stuff, and multiply it on holiday weekends. Add anywhere that young people (16-25) congregate also. Like down the street from bars at night and the like. The chickenshit type of cops seem to like to prey on kids.