people with wranglers and broncos have the doors off all the time in the summer around here. im guessing its legal

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i have my doors off in indiana, i believe you just need to have one rear facing mirror on the outside. i grabbed a piece of flat metal and drilled two holes in it so it would bolt to the hinge. picked up a cheapie mirror from autozone to mount to the other end

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IC 9-19-12-1
Safety requirements
     Sec. 1. A motor vehicle that is constructed or loaded so as to obstruct the driver's view to the rear from the driver's position must be equipped with a mirror located so as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least two hundred (200) feet to the rear of the vehicle.


That is the only law in Indiana that says anything about rearview mirrors.  Therefor as long as you can turn around and look to the rear you don't need to have ANY rear view mirrors.  If the back is loaded down and you can't see out of it then you have to have an outside rearview mirror.

In regards to the Doorless question I have done extensive research on this and can not find anywhere that it says it is illegal in INDIANA to have the doors off.  I have also talked with Motor Carrier Inspectors (the gooroo's (sp?) when it comes to equipment laws on vehicles) and the only thing that they can come up with is that someone might be able to say that it is an "unsafe vehicle" without the doors.  But if it has seat belts, and they are being used, it would be hard for an officer to articulate not having the doors on as being unsafe.

Also I have NEVER heard of anyone EVER being stopped for having the doors off in Indiana.   I don't know anything about Ohio, Michigan, Illinios though, this info was stricktly for Indiana.


-- Edited by aci4369 at 01:31, 2008-04-12

my brother drives around in his yj with doors off all the time in ohio and he is never bothered

I couldn't figure out how to look at the Michigan or Wisconsin Code, so sorry can't help you guys.

I drove my fullsize Bronco without doors no problem.

Hey John, I don't know if you know this or not but I am an Indiana State Trooper.  I would say that if you ever got stopped for your doors being off it is actually for something else stupid that you are doing, and they were just looking for a reason to stop ya.  So, I would say if you want to take the doors off, go for it, but be smart while you have them off and you shouldn't have a problem with being hassled by the police. 

Trust me I know what it means to be harrassed by the police.  My brother and I used to get stopped every friday night leaving the bowling alley in my home town because we drove a lincoln continental (black), that had Ft. wayne plates.  The would find some stupid reason to pull us over and search our car.  It stopped when they unjustifyably pulled a gun on me during one of the searches.  Then my mom went crazy at the court house and we never got stopped again.    We never had any drug, booze, or even cigarrettes on us, but they would still stop us every friday night.