are my wheels legal???

[jamie1989]

Nothing wrong with abit of poke 
Mines passed an mot everytime nothing said, Iv been pulled over by the police and all they say is nice wheels haha

[Thom89]

Legal, dont worry about it! take it for an MOT and the tester may fail or advise just to cover himself, iirc there is no guideline for this on MOT test, but get pulled by the Police, then thats a different matter...

Thom

[Bellend]

Side shots?

I'd say they were probably technically illegal. However they're such a small amount out, it'd take a real anal **** to make a fuss about them.

Don't MOT it at ATS then!  

Advisories I got recently include:

Child seat fitted to the rear
Car is lowered

Not sure if it's a new thing but some garages advise on anything non standard.

[The Mighty Elvi]

re: MOT.

"PROTRUDING WHEELS

I have recently purchased a set of alloy wheels from [a retailer] for my Ford Focus ST170 [who in turn fitted them to my car].
They appeared to be look a wider fitment than the original standard wheel even though they were the same size, 215/45/17, and were visibly protruding beyond the wheel arch on the front by approximately 5-6mm. They have also been catching the wheel arches on the front when going over speed ramps or bigger bumps in the road.

A local MOT Testing Station could not clarify whether this protrusion was classed as illegal so I would hope you could provide clarification? Steven Jewitt

As I understand the situation the only way the MOT is affected is if your new wheels actually foul the bodywork or any other part of the vehicle when the wheels are turned lock to lock when the vehicle is sitting in its normal position."


www.motester.co.uk

[VW BUSH]

re: MOT.

"PROTRUDING WHEELS

I have recently purchased a set of alloy wheels from [a retailer] for my Ford Focus ST170 [who in turn fitted them to my car].
They appeared to be look a wider fitment than the original standard wheel even though they were the same size, 215/45/17, and were visibly protruding beyond the wheel arch on the front by approximately 5-6mm. They have also been catching the wheel arches on the front when going over speed ramps or bigger bumps in the road.

A local MOT Testing Station could not clarify whether this protrusion was classed as illegal so I would hope you could provide clarification? Steven Jewitt

As I understand the situation the only way the MOT is affected is if your new wheels actually foul the bodywork or any other part of the vehicle when the wheels are turned lock to lock when the vehicle is sitting in its normal position."


www.motester.co.uk

http://forums.motester.co.uk/forum9/2243.html

That is an interesting thread and site Elvi

[thatwillis]

No idea if its legal but it looks nice.  What wheels are they?

Nice bit of camber and you missus will have a lovely stance   

[The Mighty Elvi]

A quick look around, and at the relevant law:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3013/schedule/2/made

I would say that as long as the tyre is under the arch, the wheel can be protruding NO MORE than 30mm

from the vertical plane of the car.

2.  There shall be no other feature on the external surface of the vehicle likely to increase the risk or seriousness of injury to any person who could come into contact with the vehicle. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the radius of curvature of all hard parts protruding from this external surface which can be contacted by a sphere of 100 mm diameter, shall be not less than 2.5 mm


The second sentence of paragraph 2 shall not apply to—


(d)wheels, if there are no pointed or sharp features which projects beyond the external plane of the wheel rim, no wing nuts are fitted and there are no projections beyond the vehicle body plan form apart from tyres and wheel discs, if the latter have a radius of curvature of not less than 30 mm and do not project by more than 30 mm beyond the vehicle body plan form;

[golfyste]

I believe that as long as the tyre tread is inside the arch it is legal, someone once said to me that the original reason people started stretchIng tyres was to fit wider wheels.
Dunno big this is completely true but makes sense

[tungmeister]

Yep, as others have said it only has to be the tread within the arch

[jimmy1888]

No idea if its legal but it looks nice.  What wheels are they?

Nice bit of camber and you missus will have a lovely stance   

Side shots?

18" LM's (reps)