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From factory, the exhaust sits at 130mm, that give you no room to play with. When I first lowered my car, it had about 10-20mm from floor to exhaust. To get it to a decent height looks wise you will clear around 80-90mm. But! In germany they calculate by chassi height, not accessories like exhaust. Does the same go here?

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Well i need em Tuesday as I was on my way to fly to Melbourne myself (sorta stuffs my holiday up a Bit). And over here everything has to be above 100mm I'm thinkin about gettin tyre pressures perfect and adjusting the exhaust hangers to make it hang higher

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From factory, the exhaust sits at 130mm, that give you no room to play with. When I first lowered my car, it had about 10-20mm from floor to exhaust. To get it to a decent height looks wise you will clear around 80-90mm. But! In germany they calculate by chassi height, not accessories like exhaust. Does the same go here?

its measured from the lowest point of the car, Ie exhaust,

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I dont agree with the police rules. What about their mudflaps? Theyre lower than 100mm

In NZ the regs state measurement is from body/chassis so exhaust and kits can be lower than 100mm. Actually you can drop the whole car lower than 100mm if you can get an engineer to certify that its safe.
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