Lift laws in Canada?

I don't live in Canada, but that sounds stupid...I know a number of Canadians with heavily modified off-road vehicles.

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It is Stupid, but its not just about lifts, its about any modification! Install a K&N filter and your illegal???

Depends on what province you're in, each legislates their own highway laws. I'm Alberta and the laws are pretty lax here. As long as you're headlights are within 1.4m from the ground, and you have mudflaps on the rears to at least half way down the tire, and a functional e-brake, you're laughing.

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| >> Does anyone know what the lift laws are in Canada? I was told today at a | >> road block that the law states a vehicle can not be modified at all!! | >>

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I think they might be referring to the bumper height regulations designed to protect people in ON ROAD collisions. A safety standard kind of thing, like headlight aim. If the vehicle is OFF ROAD, you can do what you want.

AFAIK safety and emission controls are regulated. After market filters are the consumers choice.

-- Roy DotSeaEh is .ca

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| >> Does anyone know what the lift laws are in Canada? I was told today at a | >> road block that the law states a vehicle can not be modified at all!! | >>

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There's no regulation for bumper height in AB, so long as you HAVE bumpers. You can check it out here....

| | >> Does anyone know what the lift laws are in Canada? I was told today at | a | | >> road block that the law states a vehicle can not be modified at all!! | | >>

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That¹s what I thought and if it was I'd be all right with my little 3.5 lift but its with any modification! Doesn't have to be a lift kit any aftermarket part... Not Legal!

I'm in New Brunswick. And the problem is not so much with lift kits but any aftermarket part. They only knew I had a lift because of the red parts under my truck. The truck is only lifted 3.5".

This would mean that 90% of the cars at our car show this weekend are no longer legal for the road.

Stop guessing dammit! :/ Go to the libray and read the law for yourself, you'll be glad you did. As much effort as you've put in trying to "wring" the answer out of those here you could of read it and been explaining it to us! :) Really, read it, and you'll feel empowered instead of feeling stepped-on. :)

People here (Pima county AZ) keep telling me "it's ag'in da law" for me to leave my Border Terrier in my pickup. They don't know the law, they just heard about the law on the TV news. :/ I just wish they'd friggin mind their own damned business. :/

Back in the 70's I had to license a dune buggy (shortened VW floor pan with roll bars) I read the law and passed first time, I knew

-that!- law better than the inspector did at that point in time. :)

The Deputy didn't know shit about the real law, even tho he was the one most vocal and sure about it. The inspector and the deputy were just people and nobody knows everything about anything.

Them being bureaucrats the situation can be worse in that there is no business/money lost if they are wrong or spew forth with wrong information, so there's not the incentive to "know and be right in what you say" like there is in business.

And you know how business is right? :)

Come back here and explain it to -us- after you've read it and interpreted the language etc ok? :) No kidding, the post will be cool because you will have read and understood all the loop holes that were written into it.

All the laws seem to have a bunch of loop holes. They were written by lawyers and the laws are for the most part make-work projects for fellow lawyers in the years to come. (?)

Well the laws sure as heck aren't about truth and justice. :) If you think so, you have been reading any yourself have you? ;)

Go man go, you can do it! :)

Alvin in AZ

Boss, Are you very young or very naive? Come on now bro. You can do whatever you want to it as long as you follow a few simple rules. red and yellow lights go in the back and white and yellow on the front ( that means no blue lights green lights any where as they are reserved for government vehicles). The other simple rule is emissions. Don't do anything to take away from the emissions capabilities of the vehicle. Even then in most provinces other than BC and Ontario they don't really enforce that. You can lift your truck to a maximum height of 4.15 metres if you want ( around 13.7 feet) . Oh yeah and your tires cant stick out more than 2 inches from the wheel well unless its factory.

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modification!

I wish on all the above (or below). Only repeating what was told to me at a recent road block.