Yeah, I already have a liscense plate for it, and since I financed it I had to get full-coverage insurance, so that's covered as well.

I realize the tires aren't DOT approved, but I figured a cop would get you for that only if he felt like being a complete a-hole. Basically, I know it would take a LOT to make it 100% street legal, and that's not what I want to do. I just want to take care of the important, obvious stuff, not every little detail. It's not going to be my daily driver or anything, I just want to be able to ride it on the street a little bit if need be. I just wanted to make sure that the only way I would get in trouble would be if the cop was a real jerk (or if I were doing something I shouldn't have )

 

You might get pulled over anyway just so he could check every thing out. Hell how many ATVs have you seen on the highway legally? I say you have a 50% chance.

 

Motorhead,
You still aren't getting it. At least in Az, to be street legal means having a licence plate issued AFTER the inspection by the MVD or it's equavalent it Utah. If you're referring to the off road plate issued when you buy a new quad, that is meaningless for any place that requires street legality. It merely shows that the machine's VIN# matches the plate # issued to it.
A logo from a corn flakes box would be just as legal on the street or in the National Forests here in Az.

 

It sounds like you have a plate from some other vehicle that you plan to attach and do a few things to the quad that would be required to make it legal, like mirrors, taillight and horn. In the hopes that it will appear legal and know one will enquire.

Anything like a quad on the street will get attention. I am not a cop, but if I was a cop I might not pull a quad over because it was a quad but I would call in the plate from a quad just out of curiosity.

The DMV inspection is half the battle, that will get you a license, after that you have to deal with the officers interpretation of the DMV codes and your vehicle. This might lead to a few fix it tickets.

 

Well, here in Idaho we don't have an "off road plate". We have a motorcycle off-road sticker for riding 'off-road', and we have motorcycle liscense plates, which are the exact same plates that a street-bike gets, for riding on highways. I have both of these.

 

In Idaho we can get a Motorcycle liscense plate for ATVs and motorcycles, which is one requirement to ride on highways. However the only inspection you do to get the plate is a simple VIN number inspection, so just because you have the plate doesn't mean you have been inspected and are deemed street legal, it's just one of the many things you need to BE street legal.

I'm not trying to sneak around or fool anyone by cutting corners to make it 'appear' street legal. I just want to take care of the important things that make an ATV safe to operate on the road. For example, headlights are a very important thing to have, and are legally required. Also, having a minimum of two rear reflectors is also required, however having only one reflector doesn't make you a hazard on the road, so common sense tells you that is something that would probably be overlooked, as long as it was obvious the person made an effort to make the bike road-safe by adding the bare necessities like mirrors, brake light, etc. As I said before, I'm not trying to be 100% 'legal' (because that could cost upwards of $1000), I just want to make it 'legal' enough that a cop wouldn't ticket me unless he was a major uptight ****-retentive type. I don't care for cops that go by-the-book, word for word, black and white. I like cops that use common sense and their own judgement for the given situation to make a decision.

Ugh, this is turning into a rant. I didn't want to get into an in-depth legal discussion, I just wanted to hear from people that made their quads 'mostly' street legal to hear what modifications were made.