Are welded steel wheels illegal on the street? I have some 6'' wide ex police widened wheels or so I am told that is where they came from. If they are illegal I wil put them on the trailer.

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Chris

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Not sure about now, but years ago I used to make them for Parramatta Speed Shop!
Banded were banned (pun intended) years ago, but it then was legal to part off the outer part of rim, and the same on a new outer rim, then put together with ONE weld in the middle of wheel well.
Probably illegal now, people would try to do it with their toy MIG welders..

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i read once that it was illegal to weld together cracks in wheels
its better than pop rivetting them together











disclaimer: i make no intention of relating a place in brookvale to pop rivetting wheels together

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HAHA @ 68matic

Widened steelies look the bomb... especially reversed and chromed.... YUM.

Kevin, that is how I remember it. These have been done properly with a continuos weld. I don't want to offer them for sale if they are illegal.

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Chris

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It used to be that double welded rims were illegal.
Even on the race track.
Ring your transport company(vehicle mods)
they will be able to tell you

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OK. Further to this I rang the RTA and was told that they are illegal. Looks like they will make good trailer wheels.

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Chris

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Fom the vicroads website "Guide to Modificatiions for Motor Vehicles":

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/vrpdf/rdsafe/vsi%208.pdf

Under wheels and tyres:

"Rnms that have been widened must have no more than one peripheral weld. All welding must be carried out in accordance with recognised engineering standards...."

So in Vic it IS legal to run widened steel wgheels, as long as there is only one peripheral weld. ie: welding part of two rims together to make a wide one, as the doc suggested.

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1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

RTA (NSW) info is here http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/registration/ ... 9_rev4.pdf
Only circumferential weld permitted now, is that which attaches the rim to the centre.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.