The controversial ‘Carolina Squat’ has been formally banned in North Carolina.

The Carolina Squat, also referred to as the Tennessee Tilt and Cali Lean, refers to modifying a pickup or SUV by decreasing the rear finish and elevating the entrance finish. Like so many different automobile modification tendencies, it serves no sensible objective however is sort of in style in sure automobile communities. As of December 1, nonetheless, it is going to be unlawful in North Carolina after Home Invoice 692 was signed into regulation on Monday by Governor Roy Cooper.

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Underneath the brand new regulation, automobile house owners can’t modify the entrance suspension of a automobile by greater than 3 inches on the entrance and not more than 2 inches on the rear. Present state regulation prohibits modifying the unique top of a automobile by greater than 6 inches – both on the entrance or rear – and with out written approval from the state commissioner of motor autos, the Winston-Salem Journal stories.

As soon as the brand new regulation comes into impact on December 1, anybody convicted 3 times of driving a automobile with these modifications will lose their driver’s license for at the least one yr.

North Carolina cited security considerations when initially proposing the ban, though these considerations haven’t been expressed publicly. Among the many considerations are regarded as the chance that such vehicles/SUVs pose to oncoming site visitors due to the angle of their headlights at evening. It is also argued that the entrance and rear crash buildings of a automobile carry out in a different way when positioned at a non-standard angle.