What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[Swainey32]

DOVW made me feel far to practicle. So fiddling with my coilovers, logical brain keeps saying don't go lower, fun brain says "those pot holes in wonga park arn't so bad, also look how nice it looks low"
Might drop it some more tomorrow after I take it for a drive like this haha

[ffoff]

Picked up my UNIbrace xB today. Will probably install in next Friday and a mates workshop.

Can't wait to see the improvement!

[dylan8]

What!!! When did this happen?

Today.
Casual trip to the shops. Didn't buy anything, such an expensive trip

[kendog]

Police put a yellow sticker on it

It that a defect? What does it mean for you now..

[dylan8]

Hopefully not much as it was a minor without roadworthy (and a whopping fine).
Just lift it up. find some wheels and tyres that clear the suspension and stay inside the guards at height, easy but I think they want tyres exactly to my placard (can't do 215/45/17s with a high load rating for example) so that part will be interesting

[SLAJ]

That sucks so much Dyl, but I'm glad to hear that its a minor and not a major

[RubAVeeDubDub]

"Victoria: The place to be...defected"

That sucks Dylan! From memory the fine is over $400 :O

With regards to legalities of fitting aftermarket tyres, you don't need to have exactly the ones fitted to your placard.
Provided you don't get lower load rated tyres and a rim that is not more than 1" wider than the ones on the placard, what you can change is the rolling diameter - i.e. the diameter of the wheel and tyre together.

Legally in Victoria, you are only allowed to vary in rolling diameter by 15mm +/- from the biggest/smallest tyre&wheel combo fitted to your car by the manufacturer.

So with the Bora's I beleive the standard tyres are 205/55/R16 so that's a rolling diameter of 632mm. Looking at the wheels fitted to Bora's, the biggest tyre & wheel combo is the 195/65/R15's at 634mm and the smallest 205/60/R15s at 627mm. So you can fit any tyre and wheel combo that has that has a rolling diameter between 612mm and 649mm.
That should give you quite a bit of choice.

If you have 17's, then fit 215/45's or 225/40's - both sizes are fairly cheap because of the common size and they would be the right load rating at 91 or higher.

If you want cheap but quite decent tyres then you can't go past Achillies ATR Sport's. Have heard little else but good about them, esp at their price.

Where do you usually get your tyres from? Ever used Motorsport wheels and tyres? They have really cheap tyres.

Good luck with getting the defect cleared, how long do you have to do so?

[dylan8]

Yep you are basically bang on with the regs.
My issue is the notice states something along the lines of 'tyres to be same as placard', normally I'd do as you said and be within the tolerance + at or above load rating, but being they are going to focus on what the defect states I'm a bit worried.
Going to call the cop to confirm (he even said to call if I had issues).
Have a week of driving it, then another 3 weeks before rego is canceled.

I know I could get it passed back home, so might be easiest just to take a day trip back to Bairnsdale :p

[RubAVeeDubDub]

Yep you are basically bang on with the regs.
My issue is the notice states something along the lines of 'tyres to be same as placard', normally I'd do as you said and be within the tolerance + at or above load rating, but being they are going to focus on what the defect states I'm a bit worried.
Going to call the cop to confirm (he even said to call if I had issues).
Have a week of driving it, then another 3 weeks before rego is canceled.

I know I could get it passed back home, so might be easiest just to take a day trip back to Bairnsdale :p

From memory you don't need to have the defect checked by the same cop or station so if you know a place that will clear it easier, then by all means, off you go!

You didn't get busted by old mate Pettett did you?

[stabbsy]

Well that sucks, did you only get done for wheel/tyre size? Did they go around the car thoroughly looking for adapters/spacers and suspension, or just figure that your wheels were too big and ping you for that?

[dylan8]

From memory you don't need to have the defect checked by the same cop or station so if you know a place that will clear it easier, then by all means, off you go!

You didn't get busted by old mate Pettett did you?

Nar its at vicroads, I might give it a crack early in the week and see what happens.

Nar thought it was to start with. Guy was nice/professional about it all, if more HWY patrol were like him they would have much more respect I think.

Well that sucks, did you only get done for wheel/tyre size? Did they go around the car thoroughly looking for adapters/spacers and suspension, or just figure that your wheels were too big and ping you for that?

too low and wheels poking out the guards was what he verbally got me for.
defect states car needs to be 100mm ground clearance, and have tyres to match the placard. no mention of the wheels on it

[RubAVeeDubDub]

Nar its at vicroads, I might give it a crack early in the week and see what happens.

Nar thought it was to start with. Guy was nice/professional about it all, if more HWY patrol were like him they would have much more respect I think.

too low and wheels poking out the guards was what he verbally got me for.
defect states car needs to be 100mm ground clearance, and have tyres to match the placard. no mention of the wheels on it

Hopefully you'll get someone who knows the laws properly at Vicroads. When I did my manual conversion on my last car and asked to have the rego changed, I had three different people give me three different answers -_-

How badly are your wheels sticking out? Mine stick out maybe half an inch. I could be next to face the chop :/

Clearance wise you must have 100mm at the lowest point of the car and suspension travel can't be reduced by more than 1/3rd either. Nfi how you count that though.

Is this your first time? .....(getting defected that is >.>)

[leighaus]

no way could dyl have lasted this long.. hes had a few

Ah well mate, sucks, but seems like he was pretty good to you.

Wash and polished my car... holy crap it was dirty. Remembered how shiny my rims actually are!

[dylan8]

Hopefully you'll get someone who knows the laws properly at Vicroads. When I did my manual conversion on my last car and asked to have the rego changed, I had three different people give me three different answers -_-

How badly are your wheels sticking out? Mine stick out maybe half an inch. I could be next to face the chop :/

Clearance wise you must have 100mm at the lowest point of the car and suspension travel can't be reduced by more than 1/3rd either. Nfi how you count that though.

Is this your first time? .....(getting defected that is >.>)

this cop knew the rules, he was even giving his partner a few lessons.
at the time rear was maybe 1/2" out, fronts was around 1/2-3/4". yeah ill defiantly be going to wheels that are in line with the arches at ride height and tucked for parking for the next 9months or so til im finished at school.

yeah 100mm is all they really check. they estimated 60mm to my subframe and 70mm at the rear when they checked, quiet surprised it was even that low at the time.

nar as leighaus said, iv been done before. about 2.5years ago on my way from bairnsdale to melbourne for SEDF. height, wheels outside the guards, brake light out.

[waddz]

that sucks good luck with getting it sorted