national safety law?

[slash2 at mindspring.com (Scott Rose)]

As for chaning things on a car you can do anything you want as long as it
pass emissions standards in the area.  And the reason why trucks can run
without at least a rear bumper, because it's not required by federal law
that trucks that are sold when new need them.  As a matter of fact rear
bumps on a truck are an option.


At 08:48 AM 25-07-03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey Ryan,
>         As far as I know, there is no federal law on modifications to your 
>car post-sale.  Individual states might have laws, but I doubt it.  Bumpers 
>really aren't considered a "safety" item; while they do help cars meet 
>frame to frame in accidents, their purpose is really for low-speed parking 
>impacts and such.
>
>         The FMVSS requires a certain strength of bumper when the car is 
>sold to the end customer, but from what I know, once that happens, you can 
>do anything you want, up to and including removing the bumpers (as many 
>people do with S-10 pickups for example).  YMMV and your state might have 
>different laws...
>
>Jason
>
>
>
>At 03:33 AM 7/25/2003, Ryan Schuermann wrote:
>>I surfed around a bit, Abused google as best I could, but really
>>couldn't find a repository of laws that pertain to automobile
>>modification. Specifically what is or isn't against the law
>>pertaining to automobile modification, specifically bumpers. I
>>just assume because we live in such a safety conscious country that
>>any slight change from the factory is automatically illegal unless
>>the part and installation has been DOT ot NHTSA approved. But I
>>know we routinely swap ours out for euro production, or make custom
>>mods to lighten them. The average cop isn't going to know euro from
>>american (well ok Meze would! ;P) But what about going more drastic?
>>like installing custom bump stops ala Porsche design, or yanking the
>>entire bumper concept and just runing 'naked'. Aerodynamics aside
>>because I'm not talking about drag racing here, or trying to win the
>>LeMans. I'm thinking purely cosmetics here, and what I could legally
>>get away with, and what I would then know the rest fell under illegal.
>>Ya know nothing is sexier than the Trans-Am champ 'rocco front :)
>>
>>thanx
>>Ryan (remember me? hehe)
>>81 1.8 8v
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