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C'mon Andy... we don't have it any where near as bad as the Eastern states though! No annual inspections, or even inspections when you buy a used car.

Not just the cops, but tyre guys can be hopeless too... I had a guy at Bridgestone tell me that the tyres on my BMW were not legal and were only used on 'small' cars like corrollas. He flatly refused to fit the tyres I wanted to my car, when my car weighs 1050kg, and the corollas he was talking about were new ones that weigh closer to 1250kg! My car also had almost identical power output at 105kW.

Like has been pointed out, I don't see how carving a bit out on a tyre designed to fit a car up to 1300kg is going to be affected on a 700kg car!