F-Series Friday: One Quick Way to Make Your Ford F-150 Illegal
There are obvious ways to make your Ford F-150 a ticket magnet. But here’s one you may not know about!
With mods becoming such a huge part of the truck enthusiast industry, we rarely consider the legality of the parts we install on our pickups. Heck, if these things are sold legally, we should be good, right? Well, not always. Turns out, obvious things like open headers and limo tint aren’t the only mods that can get you in trouble with the law. Popular YouTuber and big time Blue Oval fan AutoVlog found this out the hard way after cruising around in his modded Ford F-150 recently.
It all started out innocently enough. The stock Ford F-150 was treated to a host of mods that many of us are quite familiar with. A new grille, headlights, taillights, exhaust, and cold air intake. Then a 3.5-inch lift, some Fuel Stroke wheels, and a set of knobby Nitto Ridge Grappler tires. And it was all good as our Ford F-150 owner was cruising around and enjoying his mods. Until an unfortunate encounter with Johnny Law, that is.
Turns out, you can’t have tires that extend past your fenders, at least in some states. Including Pennsylvania, where AutoVlog lives. The solution, as it turns out, is pretty simple. A set of fender flares are all you need to circumvent this potentially expensive problem, and that’s exactly the route our poster takes with his Ford F-150 here.
Obviously, he wasn’t pleased with feeling like he was “forced” to installed fender flares on his truck. But we think it looks a lot better with them, personally. And people riding behind him probably appreciate it, too. If nothing else, let this serve as a heads up – if you’re riding around with tires that stick out past your fenders, you might want to look up your local laws before the same thing happens to you!
