This may be a little bit off topic, please bare with my bitch session. I have a 85 Toy truck with 3" of lift and 33's and cant go to much up much more because the state I live in (virginia) has lift laws. 28" front and back from bumper to ground. I'm just a lil over now. So easy to lift em, but cant and be street legal. My buddy has a tahoe with 9" of lift and is at 29" front and rear. Guess its in the setup of different trucks. Anyone else out have lift laws in there states?

 

Not here in AZ. man there are a bunch of stupid rules out there.

 

in WA you cant have more than 3 inches of body lift, which i dont know why someone would want anyways, but other than that we are home free as far as i know

 

lots of ridiculous laws for lifting trucks in new england, the conflicting laws you hear vs inspection stations vs cops vs state cops gets really annoying as well.

 

I'm not a fan of the lift laws but there's plenty of car accidents that the lifted truck enters the other vehicle's passenger compartment thus the reasoning behind lift laws. Once lifted you remove bumper to bumper contact with the majority of the other vehicles out there including other trucks.

 

Seems when the whole lift law stuff started way back people just added a little somethin' somethin' to their bumpers to comply.

Don't know if that's how people are still dealing with it or not.

Hmmmm, wonder if a little bolt-on somethin' would slide by? Somethin' you could ditch when need be.

 

Lift laws can be helpful though....
It helps keep morons with there 18" of block front and rear and 10" of body off the trails. I am always getting stuck on a trail waiting for some dumn ship in a 30" lifted full size that is stuck in 4" of mud because their morons. Lift does not me that they can go anywhere.
Just a little vent

 

Hey, at least you have a truck and can get away with the 28".. SUVs are limited at 22". Really, as long as you lift it right, get it inspected at the right place, and don't do stupid stuff out on the road you're normally ok in most parts of VA. However, I have had several friends get ticketed down your way on the I-81 corridor for lift, bumpers and fender lips being inboard of the edge of the tire.

I don't mind the lift laws that much though really.. I just wish they enforced them more on the stupid high F-350s and stuff around here. I saw one the other day that had about 8 inches of block in the rear and about 3 inch in the front

 

I really don't think we have anything in Colorado (not enforced if we do) I see full caged crawlers running around Colorado Springs at times. LOL

 

Here in NJ the law is 6in over stock tire or 38's I believe which ever is smaller. I'm not sure on bumper laws but they generally dont enforce anything here. Had a chevy on 44's and the cops just dont care...

 

Almost every state has a law of some sort about lift. We have them here in Arkansas but they aren't enforced unless a cop gets a wild hair up his butt about your rig in particular. In all my years of living here I have only heard of one guy getting reamed over it & he was a royal prick to the cops, so they just harassed him about anything they could find.

But there is a reason why the laws are in place, headlight level, bumper level, etc. Sometimes you can get around the laws because they are specific like that, just get a custom bumper with dropped lighting & a push bar low enough to pass & you're good to go, have it set up so you can un-bolt the extensions when you're on the trail - badda bing badda boom, best of both worlds.

The problem is every state is different.

 

I dont think they inforce california lift laws, thats pretty funny they have a body lift law of 5 inches, 3 inches is already 3 inches too much, i guess people start welding when they go bigger then 3 inches lol . I went to an off road show and saw like a gmc 6500. but, the top of the wheel well was about 1/2 foot higher then me(im about 6ft tall) and it has over 50 inch tall tires with those crazy military axles, it had a tow hithc too it was crazy, it had like 2 beams supporting the hitch that connected to the frame. anyways... it had a california lisence plate with current registration on it . Also these laws are whart make long travel so good. long travel trucks like trophy trucks arent lifted at all really the wheels just tuck in. instead of going higher think of ways to tuck your wheels in farther.

 

in ohio its 11 inches from stock bumber height but its never enforced where i am.

 

In Hawaii it's not a "lift law" per se, but bumper height restrictions that determine how much lift/drop a vehicle can have.

In order to get a "Reconstructed Vehicle" sticker/permit to operate a vehicle that has been modified (changing rims greater than +1, altering ride height as measured by license plate or headlight height, etc...) the vehicle must pass an inspection at a Recon station.

Headlights must be at least 22" off the ground to the center of the headlight housings, or a max of 54" (if lifted).
If you have oversized tires, you will need adequate fender flares and for the rear, rear mud flaps (tires may not protrude beyond the farthest point of the fender/flare).
Body may be lifted max 3" (including the factory cab-frame isolators)
Bumper height requirements are based on GVWR. People have gotten around this by dropping their bumper brackets to lower their bumpers.
You must have a front license plate which must be at least 12" off the ground.

Having stated the written requirements, there are mondo-huge trucks driving around with tires sticking out into the next zip code, lifted to the sky with no recon stickers and bumpers at about eye-level. Recon or lift laws are only as effective as people are willing to enforce them.

 

In Ma it is a little tricky to come up with an actual allowable height. If I am not mistaken this is the formula : wheelbase X track width and then divide that number by 2200. So if you make your wheelbase wider or longer you can go higher. They do have limits on how high your rear bumper can be without having mud flaps too. The tires can not stick out past the fender either. If you are not an &## most of the cops don't hassle you though.A lot of tire dealers I have dealt with are morons they won't sell you bigger tires if they have to bolt them on the rig but if you just bring in the rims and they put on the tire it's no big deal. Whats up with that? lol

 

Interesting that in Michigan, coil spacers aren't allowed. Good grief.

 

Maine is crazy, 29" to the bottom of the rear frame rail! my stock 90 x-cab with 31's is barely legal

 

NM= none really, they don't mess with you if you do.

 

Most every state has some form of lift law (enforced or not):
http://web.archive.org/web/200604271...lift-laws.html

 

It's not unusual to see either Virginia State Police or locals measuring the bumper heights on lifted vehicles that have been pulled over. From what I have gathered on local VA 4x4 boards, this occurs frequently around the Richmond and Norfolk/VA Beach areas.

If you have an aftermarket bumper, LEOs are supposed to measure from the frame to the ground. I don't know whether possible illegal bumper height is a primary offense to be pulled over for, usually some other traffic violation prompts being pulled over.

I have to check, but I believe that it's illegal in VA to even modify the stock suspension. This is one reg that inspection stations rarely ding you for, but LEOs are catching on.