aaustin92 Casual Dubber
44 posts · joined Oct 2010 ·
HI, Is fenderless beetles legal in NSW? im thinking of going fenderless but is it legal?i see hot rods driving around fenderless so i was just wondering. cheers
is fenderless legal in NSW?
barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem
9,476 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·
no its not legal as you are required to have something covering the wheels and protecting against stones thrown up by the tires.
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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --
11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·
i CANNOT SEE HOW IT IS LEGAL...aaustin92 wrote:HI, Is fenderless beetles legal in NSW?
im thinking of going fenderless but is it legal?
i see hot rods driving around fenderless so i was just wondering. cheers
unless maybe engineered that way....
but as the wheels throw dirt stones and water everywhere I believe they shouldn't be legal....
at least the drive wheels should have to have mudguards and mudflaps... as in rallying...
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Police don't like cars with bits missing also.... lol
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aaustin92 Casual Dubber
44 posts · joined Oct 2010 ·
yeah thats what i though but how do hotrods do it?
barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem
9,476 posts · joined Jun 2004 ·
the same way most of them get registered.
they put a set of cycle guards on for rego then as soon as its passed off they come again, thats even if they get regoed some just get signed off. the inspector doesnt even see the car, its not the way its suppose to happen. then there are the ones on club rego.
there are way too many dodgy people out there that think ill do this its fine.
i will say that its not all of them that are done this way some have gone down the engineering report method but finding one that will sign off on the report is a completely different thing. then there is the rego inspection
they put a set of cycle guards on for rego then as soon as its passed off they come again, thats even if they get regoed some just get signed off. the inspector doesnt even see the car, its not the way its suppose to happen. then there are the ones on club rego.
there are way too many dodgy people out there that think ill do this its fine.
i will say that its not all of them that are done this way some have gone down the engineering report method but finding one that will sign off on the report is a completely different thing. then there is the rego inspection
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SuperOwen Fahrvergnugen
868 posts · joined Jan 2009 ·
Pre 48(i think) hotrods are covered by a different set of standards for engineering etc when on club plates, but even still I would imagine they aare meant to have cycle guards at the very least.
squizy Thinking about another dub...maybe
4,082 posts · joined Dec 2002 ·
All rods must have guards, it's just that some choose to take them off once regoed. It's the risk that they take to get a canary, and spoil it for others who may legitimately be running guards. ASRF have some pretty strict guidelines. If you break those laws then you just make it harder for everyone else.
Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang
9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·
I can't see them being legal either but doesnt stop people doing it like most mods that are illegal like T-bars, headlight eyebrows etc.
I will say onething though if you're gonna go ahead, make sure they are very well secured.
That beige one with the red sides in afew dubs by the pub photos that's been on ebay recently was a few cars ahead of me coming home on the highway from dubs by the pub when it lost one of them.
Went underneath the Kombi behind who is a fellow forum member on here, then launched about 10meters in the air before coming down almost through another cars windscreen.
If that bug wasnt engineered for those mods which I would be surprised if it was and it had of gone through the windscreen shit would have hit the fan big time.
I will say onething though if you're gonna go ahead, make sure they are very well secured.
That beige one with the red sides in afew dubs by the pub photos that's been on ebay recently was a few cars ahead of me coming home on the highway from dubs by the pub when it lost one of them.
Went underneath the Kombi behind who is a fellow forum member on here, then launched about 10meters in the air before coming down almost through another cars windscreen.
If that bug wasnt engineered for those mods which I would be surprised if it was and it had of gone through the windscreen shit would have hit the fan big time.