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does anyone know the states suspension laws?

jsudar

jsudar

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Cedar Hills
Once a VIN gets entered into the safety inspection program, it is in there. If you fail at one place and try to get inspected at another, a warning pops up and tells you that vehicle has failed an inspection in the last 60 days.

I'm pretty sure you can acknowledge the warning and inspect it anyway, but most shops won't for CYA purposes. This may have changed. My safety inspector license lapsed in December. so it's been a few months.
 
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STAG

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poorboyzdreamz said:
Because everyone is linked to the uhp database when they give you a inspection form whether pass or fail. If you fail it raises a redflag prohibiting the other location to pass without repairs being made.
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Errr this is not entirely true... due to the fact that just by "failing" an inspection it doesn't immediately red-flag the vehicle...

I paid the inspection fee at "Place #1" in Lehi and had them do a full inspection, they failed my truck exhaust because ended 4" before the edge of my truck bed.... I took my inspection ticket which clearly said "Failed" on it, to "Place #2" in Pleasant Grove and he said "Well, it looks good to me...." and he scanned the barcode on my "failed" inspection paper and changed my exhaust system from fail to pass and printed out a new paper... and I didn't have to pay for the re-inspection at place #2.....

so just because a vehicle may fail safety, it doesn't always neccesarily red flag automatically... However yes, the UHWP does have the ability to "red-flag" a vehicle and then whichever part of the inspection failed, must be re-inspected by a UHWP officer to get un-flagged... in the case of JeepSpeedTJ...
 
jeepspeedtj

jeepspeedtj

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After spending many hours at the state saftey office in salt lake today here is what i found out.

Once a patrolman flags a vehical the Vin will for evermore have a flag on in. That in itself is not the end of the world. It just gives the highway patrol that much more reason to pick your rig apart if you do get pulled over.

also now that my registration has been revoked i have to have the highway patrol re certify the vehicle. Until it has been inspected by the highway patrol you cant register your vehicle.

As far as the coilovers go they are legal. I just hapened to find the one highway patrol man that did not know the law. (I think he was just gelious of my jeep.)

For me to be 100% street legal and for me to regester my jeep all i need to do is install a sway bar. And kiss some more highway patrol ass.
 
rockreligious

rockreligious

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Location
Ephraim
spaggyroe said:
This confuses me. :confused:
Have I missed something?
Since when is a sway bar mandatory? :ugh:
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Ive never heard of a sway bar being mandatory, but........maybe its a case that the officer deemed the rig un-safe due to having coilovers in all four corners with no anti-sway and the rigs possibly being set-up so soft it was still leaning real far to one side when parking after turning into the inspection station. In which case he could have been right in doing so..Its hard to say without knowing all the details and maybe seeing some pictures. I certainly dont mean to take the side of UHP, but at the same time I have family traveling some of the same streets as rigs that are just plain dangerous, if anti-sway makes a dangerous rig safe on the road than sounds like a good solution.
 
jeepspeedtj

jeepspeedtj

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spaggyroe said:
This confuses me. :confused:
Have I missed something?
Since when is a sway bar mandatory? :ugh:
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It is mandatory ever since the factory installed the sway bar.

If it is there from the factory you cant remove it. Unless you replace it with a similar functioning item.
 
jeepspeedtj

jeepspeedtj

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rockreligious said:
Ive never heard of a sway bar being mandatory, but........maybe its a case that the officer deemed the rig un-safe due to having coilovers in all four corners with no anti-sway and the rigs possibly being set-up so soft it was still leaning real far to one side when parking after turning into the inspection station. In which case he could have been right in doing so..Its hard to say without knowing all the details and maybe seeing some pictures. I certainly dont mean to take the side of UHP, but at the same time I have family traveling some of the same streets as rigs that are just plain dangerous, if anti-sway makes a dangerous rig safe on the road than sounds like a good solution.
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I only have co's on the front for now.

But on the leaning issue I went stiff on the spring rates just to avoid the whole body roll issue.
 
Silly Willy

Silly Willy

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American Fork Ut
jeepspeedtj said:
It is mandatory ever since the factory installed the sway bar.

If it is there from the factory you cant remove it. Unless you replace it with a similar functioning item.
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So if I have a rear sway bar from the factory, I can't remove it? I don't see the point of a rear sway bar when I have leaf springs in the rear.
 
cruiseroutfit

cruiseroutfit

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Sandy, Ut
Silly Willy said:
So if I have a rear sway bar from the factory, I can't remove it? I don't see the point of a rear sway bar when I have leaf springs in the rear.
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Sway and thus the need for a sway bar is no means exclusive to coil or coilover suspensions. It might be more pronounced in a soft coil setup, but leaf spring rigs can and do benefit from from sway bars and thus many manufactures have included them OE. For example Toyota was using them on the rear of trucks as early as the 60's and used them all the way up to the end of their leaf spring use (US) in the 90's.
 
jeepspeedtj

jeepspeedtj

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Finally I got the jeep registered. It only took a sway-bar, a trip to Salt Lake, and about half a dozen calls to the Highway Patrolman that revoked my registration.

I do have to give the Highway Patrolman credit for being very professional and polite. Even though I was not the nicest person to deal with.:p He is just a person trying to do his job.
 
phatfoto

phatfoto

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Location
Tooele
Glad it worked out, but it would have been better if Mr. Professional UHP Officer had been a bit more clear why he was revoking your reg...
 
jeepspeedtj

jeepspeedtj

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phatfoto said:
Glad it worked out, but it would have been better if Mr. Professional UHP Officer had been a bit more clear why he was revoking your reg...
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I think he must have gotten a stale donut that morning. :rofl::rofl: So he was just having a bad day and he must of wanted to make everyone else have a bad day as well
 
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bobdog

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Location
Sandy
phatfoto said:
Glad it worked out, but it would have been better if Mr. Professional UHP Officer had been a bit more clear why he was revoking your reg...
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He probably had a high school girlfriend leave him for a guy with a big lifted truck. Probably still does not get it that it was not his tires that she thought were too small.
 
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