Body lift kits - legality in QLD?

Baja Wes V6 Baja Pioneer

3,119 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Sep 2004, 9:23 am

#236032

Hi all,

Was just digging through some old files, and found an interesting piece of paper.

http://www.offroadvw.net/tech/QT_body_lift.pdf

It is a bulletin released by Queensland Transport a few years back.

Interesting points are that they say 2 inch body lift is the max, and has to be approved by Queensland Transport themselves.

You then run into the problem of what is a body lift kit. They basically say "lift blocks between body/cabin and chassis mounts". Which is talking about raising the whole cab and floor of a 4wd.

So how does it apply to VW's? I'm not sure. Most people in the VW circles refer to them as floorpan reinforcement / stiffening and not a body lift. It's hard to say really. The safest thing to do I guess is to keep it to 2inch or less to be on the safe side.

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MikeM Buggy Head

1,429 posts · joined Aug 2003 · 22 Sep 2004, 9:46 am

#236036

For baja's, yeah keep it to 2 inches to avoid trouble.

For buggies, different story. Sharpbuilt puts 3inch, 2inch and 0 inch body lift kits on his buggies prior to approval and gets them through. But in buggies they are floorpan reinforcement / stiffening and not a body lift. 🙂 And they are complianced as part of the buggy.

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last celtic warrior Wolfsburg Wizard

402 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Sep 2004, 12:56 pm

#237729

Why play it so safe?

If you're allowed 2 inches and you ask Queensland Transport (in an application to modify motor vehicle) if you can put 3 or 4 inches in instead, all they can do is say "no" and tell you that you're stuck with 2 inches.

So... Nothing to lose in asking is there?

I mean, if we were all into playing it so safe, we would be driving around in basic unmodified cars instead of radical beastly off-road Vee Dubs driving in the insane (not recomended) way that we do.

[Edited on 26-9-2004 by The CAR VET]

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4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 2 Oct 2004, 9:35 pm

#240763

So are you guys saying that this might not pass??

:thumb

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Andy42 Insano Dub Head

709 posts · joined Mar 2003 · 2 Oct 2004, 9:51 pm

#240776

Now that is how they should be :thumb

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