Police warning: incorrect wheel size on Audi A8L D2

[iGO]

Hi everyone
Today I was stopped by police and officer gave me warning for incorrect size wheels.
He told me that wheels are not manufacturer/AUDI ones, not designed for this vehicle and doesn't fit arch correctly
Maybe someone know regulations and what does it mean CORRECT wheels?
How much I know tire tread should stay under arch.

Thanks for any help
Igor

[mattylondon]

How was the situation left, did the police only give a verbal warning? I assume you have a valid MOT with your current wheels on when tested. I remember watching Traffic Cops where they pulled a young lad in a Polo or Golf with massive negative camber as they thought it was unsafe.

[Conquistador]

Strange, your wheels/tyres don't look like they stick out too much.

Neither the wheel nor tyre tread can stick out past the body/arch but the 'bulge' of the tyre is allowed to but each case will probably be judged on its own merits by the officer which stops you.

[iGO]

He was saying that should be gap between tire and arch.
I told him its sport suspension. He said: no its not wright.
When I asked him what is wright he couldn't tell me.

[Dezzy]

He's obviously never had a Ford Zephyr or a Citroen CX

[iGO]

I thinking, maybe he mean that tires are stretched over the rims?
That's what I found:
Wheels http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_420.htm
Tyres http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_410.htm

Still can't see nothing related

[ainarssems]

It's a bit bit of grey area, the links you posted are for MOT but MOT does not cover every single rule and legislation. So just because it passed MOT does not mean it's road legal. Then there are rules for vehicle manufacturers when designing new models but there is not much certainty what you can and cannot modify or by how much.

I think that wheels and tyres can stick out of body by up to 30mm if there are no sharp or pointy bits on them. But I am not sure how it's measured as the body line is not vertical but slopes inwards at the bottom so obviously they are sticking out more at the bottom.

[Adrian E]

What's the wheel width and tyre size?

About the only things you can get pulled up on are an overly stretched tyre, or the whole wheel/tyre combo sticking out of the wheel arch, which would constitute an MOT failure.

[47p2]

What I've always been told is that if, when looking vertically down past the wheelarch any of the tread section of the tyre can be seen then this contravenes Construction and Use regs but is not an MOT fail.

[ainarssems]

This from individual vehicle approval regulations: