Shipping Tires / Wheels?
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Melting Slicks
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Shipping Tires / Wheels?
How does one go about shipping tires and/or tires and wheels?
Where would you find a box big enough to do that - I know, do 4 boxes, but even that would be a challenge finding a box(es)
Anybody ever done it?
Where would you find a box big enough to do that - I know, do 4 boxes, but even that would be a challenge finding a box(es)
Anybody ever done it?
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Melting Slicks
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So just give um a kick an ROLL them out to the UPS truck 
Ought to make an interesting hide-and-go-seek, finding the shipping label
When completing an online UPS label, "use customer packing" Size dimensions, I don't recall seeing CIRCUMFERENCE any where
Good, thanks for the tips.... I got tons of that stretch wrap stuff. Perfect!
Ought to make an interesting hide-and-go-seek, finding the shipping label
When completing an online UPS label, "use customer packing" Size dimensions, I don't recall seeing CIRCUMFERENCE any where
Good, thanks for the tips.... I got tons of that stretch wrap stuff. Perfect!
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Check out Greyhound!! They are like half the price of other shippers!!
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Check out Greyhound!! They are like half the price of other shippers!!
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Originally Posted by diyguy
How does one go about shipping tires and/or tires and wheels?
Where would you find a box big enough to do that - I know, do 4 boxes, but even that would be a challenge finding a box(es)
Anybody ever done it?
Where would you find a box big enough to do that - I know, do 4 boxes, but even that would be a challenge finding a box(es)
Anybody ever done it?
They arrived in perfect condition.
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Originally Posted by diyguy
How does one go about shipping tires and/or tires and wheels?
Where would you find a box big enough to do that - I know, do 4 boxes, but even that would be a challenge finding a box(es)
Anybody ever done it?
Where would you find a box big enough to do that - I know, do 4 boxes, but even that would be a challenge finding a box(es)
Anybody ever done it?
I went online to ups.com and printed my own shipping labels and dropped them off at a ups store (mailboxes etc). Shipping for all four with 250 insurance on each wheel was $112.00 from MD to FL.
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Originally Posted by Devils Elbow
FedEx ground will be much less $$ than UPS. If its just tires, they just stick a label on each tire.
FedEx was the cheapest. Took it to the FedEx place and they taped the sticker on the pair of tires. $35 total for two front tires if I remember correctly....
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Originally Posted by Ragtop_Rob
I JUST shipped mine to a guy in FL. I went to Staples and bought a 1,000 yard roll of clear shipping plastic (the stretchy stuff) and 4 rolls of packing tape (everything was like 30 bucks). Then I took flat cardboard pieces and put them over the face of each wheel. After that I added pieces of styrofoam (I used the sides of a foam cooler I got at Target for 4 bucks). After that, I wrapped each wheel up in a few layers of the plastice and tapped the seams. They arrived in perfect condition.
I went online to ups.com and printed my own shipping labels and dropped them off at a ups store (mailboxes etc). Shipping for all four with 250 insurance on each wheel was $112.00 from MD to FL.
I went online to ups.com and printed my own shipping labels and dropped them off at a ups store (mailboxes etc). Shipping for all four with 250 insurance on each wheel was $112.00 from MD to FL.
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I don't box them. I cut out circles from cardboard to protect the wheel. Tape two wheels/tires into one big bundle using the cardboard circles to protect the wheels lips/faces. The wheels' front faces can usually be placed facing together without rubbing, but if they are, you can still protect them by placing the front faces outward and place one circular cardboard on each face.