Author Topic: Anyone get stopped for not having proper bumpers? (Read 2480 times)

calltrex · « **on:** January 14, 2007, 11:11:52 PM »

Anyone get stopped for not having proper bumpers?

I got a Rear stinger on the YJ. Not really a bumper on the back.

Lots of guys have stubby front bumpers

does anyone get stopped or tickets ??

just wondering

BlackYJ · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2007, 11:30:49 PM »

You could probably argue that the steel plate across the back and the skid of the stinger acts like a bumper. Most police officers around here do not know anything about the highway act when it comes to legality of vehicles except for mud flaps and flare width.

I would like at the taffic act and see what the definition of a bumper is

apex · « **Reply #2 on:** January 15, 2007, 10:51:10 AM »

never been stopped myself and I always seem to have a cop behind me. No flaps, short flares, shortened rear bumper.

I think its the RC's that you have to be worried about. I saw a jeep getting flat-deck towed by the RC's in Red Deer for not having wide enough flares.

SteveO · « **Reply #3 on:** January 15, 2007, 11:28:38 AM »

I got pulled over for not having a rear bumper when I was building my new one. I was actually on my way to Princess Auto for a part and told the cop that I would have it back on by the end of the day and he said no problem and let me go. I didn't really understand that because a rear bumper was an option on the older Toy pickups. Lots of them just have the rollpan on the back. :?:

TJ54 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 15, 2007, 08:23:14 PM »

I always thought that a jeep was considered a truck in the highway act and therefore did not require a rear bumper as some trucks come without rear bumpers, rollpans like steve said.
But I could be wrong.
And as we all know the cops may still pull you over and give you a ticket, then you have to spend money fighting it, So it would probably be cheaper just to get a bumper, Or those funny little Bumperettes :lol:

m0th · « **Reply #5 on:** January 15, 2007, 10:32:09 PM »

http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/Regs/2002_322.cfm?frm_isbn=0779717090

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Bumpers

76(1) In this section, “passenger car” means a motor vehicle that is designed primarily to transport people and has a seating capacity of 10 or fewer but does not include a truck, a multipurpose passenger vehicle, a chassis cab, a motor cycle or a moped;

(2) A passenger car must have both a front and a rear bumper.

(3) A person shall not install or alter a bumper on a passenger car unless the design of the bumper is equivalent to, and the bumper is mounted in substantially the same manner as, the bumper installed by the manufacturer of the passenger car.

(4) A person shall not alter a passenger car in such a way that the main structural component of a bumper is more than 500 millimetres or less than 400 millimetres above ground level when the passenger car is not loaded.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), components that are commonly known as bumperettes or overriders are not part of the main structural component of a bumper or of the projected vertical facing of a bumper.

(6) Subsection (4) does not apply to passenger cars manufactured before April 1, 1976.

(7) A person shall not alter a car manufactured before April 1, 1976 in such a way that the bumper is more than 100 millimetres higher or lower than it was at the time the car was manufactured.

TJ54 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 16, 2007, 07:44:08 AM »

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but does not include a truck, a multipurpose passenger vehicle,

I think a jeep is definatly a multipurpose vehicle.

calltrex · « **Reply #7 on:** January 16, 2007, 07:19:23 PM »

never noticed that. I wonder if it could be classified as a multipurpose vehicle..

any lawyers here?

NS-jeeper · « **Reply #8 on:** January 16, 2007, 08:41:51 PM »

My new compass is listed as a truck on the Reg. Papers, and if that qualifies as a truck then I don't understand the definition of a truck. :wink:

HIWYH8R · « **Reply #9 on:** January 16, 2007, 09:57:32 PM »

Hehe, I bug the wife cause her XJ is listed as a station wagon on her registration. "Were going shopping? Well we better take the station wagon then" She don't like that. LOL

RedDog · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2007, 06:32:12 AM »

Bumpers have become a meaningless notion. Where are the "bumpers" on a Corvette?

The average family vehicle in traffic here (4x4 extended cab pickup) is going to hit my spare tire a foot shy of any letter-of-the-law bumper.

dunl · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2007, 07:16:58 AM »

Quote from: "NS-jeeper"

My new compass is listed as a truck on the Reg. Papers, and if that qualifies as a truck then I don't understand the definition of a truck. :wink:

Must not be an original Albertan who classified that. No real Albertan would mistake a truck. :lol:

ndub · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2007, 11:27:42 PM »

Only two tickets are for $57 and $115 One is for no bumper...and the other is for having a bumper that is altered and does not compare to the orginal equipment. So the stinger would be a stretch...it would all depend on attitude.

80CJ · « **Reply #13 on:** January 31, 2007, 02:56:56 PM »

On our way down here I got pulled over in the middle of Idaho I think for not having 50% of my rear tires covered by mudflaps. What a dick cop. I had Canadian plates. He also asked if my bumper was 4 inches wide and I lied and said yes, he didn't have a tape measure out to prove that it was only 3.5. I just played dumb about the mud flaps and he let me go. I think he just wanted an excuse to stop a loaded truck all the way from Canada and make sure something wasn't up. That's my experience.

Author Topic: Anyone get stopped for not having proper bumpers? (Read 2480 times)

SteveO

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