Do you need a back bumper?(in oregon)

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I'm trying to figure this out. I have a 90 4runner which could go both ways from what I'm told by cops. Its either a sedan, or a light truck suv so whatever. I concider it a light truck/suv my self. I don't have a back bumper and hate getting pulled over and hasseled for stupid stuff. I can't get a straight answer from dmv, oregon state police or the local city cops. Does any one know do you need a back bumper? I ran my 72 bug for a year with out bumper and never got tickets and a few mini trucks with roll pans. But cops seem to love to mess with 4x4 guys here to have a reason to pull them over then mesure tires and all that junk.

I found light laws that say this:

Oregon

Oregon doesn't have a maximum bumper-height law, but headlights can be only 54 inches from the center of the headlight to the asphalt. Also, the maximum height of a vehicle, with anything on top or loaded, is 14 feet.
From this site: http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/how-technical-articles/40930-bumper-height-laws-state-state.html

other sites for reading I can't find nothing
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/TS/Veh_Equipment.shtml
http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/problems/studies/Bumper/Index.html
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/docs/vcb/VCB815.pdf?ga=t

[junya92toy]

If you dont have a bumper, you will need a roll pan for the rear.

[jimbo74]

if you have been getting hassled and don't want to get hassled, put a bumper on


i know that if you live in CA, you only need a bumper if your vehicle was originally equipped with one from the factory (your truck is a 90, so it had one)
now there is federal law in place that says you aren't allowed to remove a federal saftey feature (which a bumper qualifies as)

[Early]

i bought my runner without a rear bumper and never had any fuss. drove it all over oregon for about 4 years that way. In the last two years i made a small simple bumper cause i got closer and closer to dragging gate on rock.


It dosen't bug me but i would have assumed there IS a bumper height law. I kinda thought there was at least that in every state. But

My bumper was super simple and i spent not allot of time or money on it.



I used a 120 amp Harbor freight arc welder ($60), the stock hitch mounts (that slide into the frame), and a piece of tube i picked up at the local metal yard ($10), and maybe 4 or 5 angle grinder cutting disc ($5)

I got protection from rocks at break over, also from cars and vans in a rear end collision. a truck would more than likely kill my tail gate but then i could cut it off and dove it.

Could help ya make one, i don't remember if your around p town or not.

[Cheesemaker]

Fade is from Florence.  The land of the cool dunes. 

[Early]

Fade is from Florence.  The land of the cool dunes.  

gotcha, i remember the winchester pics now.

Anyway, i hadn't welded in years, and although i kinda knew what i was doing i was not on par. It was simple enough that i think anyone could do it if they read a simple how to. bad welds can be ground down and tried again. you'd be surprised.


Sorry, guess kinda been ranting off topic, your looking for the laws. thought id share 

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Cool early thanks for the heads up. I do like that bumper and it seems like a good idea, I'd fab(well my attempt) to do some side protection to. So you pretty much just welded on to the stock mounts that are there? I'll get a pic up tomorrow of what my rear looks like I got the stock bumper mounts I think and a non factory hitch.

[warrpath4x4]

i have a few friends that are cops and they say it is all upto the officers interpretation of the law. i ran without a rear bumper for a long time, as long as you have your plates on the front and rear most ends of the vehicle and have liscence plate lights, you "should" be ok.

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Thats pretty much what I'm thinkin. I just hate goin out havin fun on the trail or sand and on my way home and gettin lit up. Or after a 11-14 hour day at work which is a tues-sunday thing.

[Early]

yea, i cut it down. but i don't have the ability to cut 1/2 plate very well so i used what i had. i can highlift the rear with it. and like i said, im protected from some people. (edit: i always planned on adding gussets to it but it worked so i never messed with it. thought about adding a hitch and id do allot more to strudy it up.)

Thats pretty much what I'm thinkin. I just hate goin out havin fun on the trail or sand and on my way home and gettin lit up. Or after a 11-14 hour day at work which is a tues-sunday thing.

I have always done as much as i can to not get pulled over. Like in the runner on 35's and half doors, i keep my LP clean/current and run the half doors because of the mirror, also run mudflaps. I make sure my lights work, cause thats a stupid reason to get pulled over. And in my lowered euro, i didn't tint the windows, i sit up straight, and i don't wear a hat. Sad to say but i think these things help me from having to even talk to blue. No problem with em but id rather have a beer at a bar with a cop instead of getting asked to leave my vehicle by one.

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sorry only pic I got at the moment. Was busy with work today.

[Cheesemaker]

It really doesn't matter with the cops.  I had been pulled over many times.  When I worked swing shift was the worst.  They could watch me pull out of work at midnight, and they would still light me up.  With the assumption that I had been drinking.  And they always said I had a lic plate out.  But it was just the fact that the plates were crappy plates that didn't reflect light well.  (Factory defect, but not enough for me to pay $150 for new plates) 

[Early]

I didn't drink is highschool, partly cause i wasn't ready but mostly because their was..

the assumption that I had been drinking.

..I started havin fun playin that one off like the keg party http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23851011/ (sorry OT)