3 ms·
> Where is this thing even legal to drive?? Racetracks, mainly. While I'm keeping the car registered, I'm sure the first time I have a problem with a police of
by King-Aaron 8y ago
> Where is this thing even legal to drive??
Racetracks, mainly. While I'm keeping the car registered, I'm sure the first time I have a problem with a police officer the car will receive a defect notice and won't be legal on the road any longer until it passes an engineering inspection. I'd need to be doing something pretty silly to get pulled over though, as it's all in a mx5 (miata) and it's a bit of a "sleeper" - i.e. it doesn't appear to be modified when looking from the outside.
Interestingly enough though, the work I'm doing should be able to pass an engineer if required, but that's an investment I'll make when the defect arises. In Australia it's pretty commonplace to daily drive your race car until it gets defected, haha.
It should be noted though, that in certain states in the United States, it appears (to an outsider) that some extremely powerful drag cars etc can be driven on the streets. Or, it's a similar scenario, in that they shouldn't be driven on the streets but are anyway...
- gambiting 8y agoWhat doesn't make any sense to me though that even if you avoid the police and any inspections, doing this to a car would 100% invalidate any insurance you have on it - making it an extraordinarily stupid idea to drive on any sort of public road, because if you get into an accident any insurance company will just refuse to pay out a single penny since the vehicle has been heavily modified past the factory specs - unless you declare all modifications to your insurer, which I am assuming you don't, since you also mention avoiding a full engineering inspection.
- King-Aaron 8y agoI'm with Shannons and have all modifications declared. The engineering side of things is primarily for standard road/vehicle registration and checks that you're compliant with ADR (Australian Design Rules). i.e. my rollcage is CAMS (Confederation of Australian Motor Sport) compliant, however for it to be ADR compliant I would need it inspected by an engineer, while Shannons still happily covers it. But yeah my insurer knows everything right down to the brand of main bearings I bought.
- ux-app 8y ago> while Shannons still happily covers it They'll happily take your money, the true test is whether they'll pay up if you have a significant claim (e.g. totaled a Bentley :) )
- gambiting 8y agoAll they need to do is prove that any of the modifications made the car unsafe to drive, or that it wouldn't have passed the technical inspection with them in - they are willing to cover mods, but it always comes with a clause of "as long as the car remains legal to drive on the road"(which they don't check - they just acknowledge the existence of modifications, nothing else).