Protruding tyres

I'm pretty sure not in the UK, in that the area immediately surrounding the tyre has to be deeper than the tyre. But I couldn't give an official answer or reference as you want. I'm more interested to know, did you persevere with your MP3 head unit, and what were the results?!

David.

Someone on another group said something similar - and his "official" bit was that he got a "fix it or lose it" notice served on him because you could see tyre tread when looking down onto the tyre.

I've been very busy at work and home so ducked out of afl for a while which meant I missed the conversation to which you refer (and the nice comments about me too, I'm flattered ;-) But thanks to Google groups I now know what you're talking about!

I acquired an MStation MP3 jukebox ages ago. It has a 10GB drive but uses a standard PC HDD so it should be easy to upgrade. It came with a PC adaptor so you could easily insert it into your PC as a second drive and copy music onto it. My PC hated it though and never worked right whilst I had any part of the MStation kit attached to it. I adapted it to plug into a USB port and that worked fine. The unit itself works fine but I've never really got round to using it fully - mainly because I've not converted enough stuff to MP3 - so was thinking of selling it. Still open to offers...

I now have an iPAQ with suitable mounting/protection in the LandRover & the MG. I use it in vehicle for TomTom Navigator (sat nav), POIWarner (speed camera warning) and MemoryMap (maps/routes when greenlaning). I can't hear (deaf in one ear, plus my new iPAQ is very quiet) TomTom's directions in the MG so I have a custom made amp that detects when sound is coming out of the iPAQ, disconnects the speakers from the stereo and amplifies the iPAQ through them instead. 2 seconds after the iPAQ stops "speaking" it reconnects the stereo. The point being that if I get round to converting CDs to MP3 then I could now use the iPAQ to play MP3s in vehicle.

Actually I'm considering moving house and quite fancy a central music server in the new one so maybe I should finally get round to converting those CDs...

Rafe

The MStation drive can only act as an IDE master in the PC and that caused me a few problems before I sussed it out! I've been using mine (40Gb) for some considerable time and am very happy with it although it does very infrequently throw a wobbly and needs to be reset. The supplied FM modulator is crap though but I've replaced the head unit with a Panasonic CD unit with AUX in and it works great now.

Malcolm

Further to this, does anybody know an online copy of the Construction & Use Regulations? You'd think the dft would have it somewhere on thier website, but I can't find it.

Alex

On or around Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:35:58 +0000 (UTC), Rafe Aldridge enlightened us thusly:

I can have a look in C&U, but not now, I'm just going out.

i don`t think the law has changed in that respect - 10 years ago i got done for the tyres on my escort ( i know i`m sad) and the law "was" the tyres couldn`t protude more than 2 inches from the immediately surrounding body work. eg your wheel arches/wings. so if you take you eyebrow thingies off - do they stick out more than

nick c

Ok, spoke to local plod mate of mine and here's his answer. "looking vertically down on the tyre, the shoulder and shoulder tread may protrude, but if any other part of the normal road-contact tread is protruding then it's a no-no." Badger.

This is correct from the C&U, interstingly enough this is not part of the MOT!!!

But if you can see the tread when viewed down the top of the wing your done.

the thing i'm not sure about is how long the peice of rubber would need to be, sticking out from the wing lip and covering the top part of the tyre, it might only need to be about 1 inch long to comply.

Gary

Badger wrote:

Thanks all for the replies. Looks like the wheel arch spats are here to stay!

Rafe