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Has anyone shipped rims with tires? I was just looking the shipping service used and how you packed them.
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I was shipped wheels and tires and he just put them 2 each in a box and UPS'd them to me.
98.5 SVT
91 Escort GT (almost sold)
96 ATX Zetec (i brake to watch you swerve)
FS: SVT rear sway bar
WTB: Very cheap beater
CEG Dragon Run - October 13-15
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Mine were shipped/strapped w/ tape 2-back to back w/ cardboard disks on the ouside to protect the rims, then wrapped in plastic (tightly), kinda like shrinkwrapped - looked like saran wrap. I know if you don't use a box, they may charge you an unboxed fee.
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Originally posted by SVZETEC:
Mine were shipped/strapped w/ tape 2-back to back w/ cardboard disks on the ouside to protect the rims, then wrapped in plastic (tightly), kinda like shrinkwrapped - looked like saran wrap. I know if you don't use a box, they may charge you an unboxed fee.
I've received and sent tires/wheels this way. Only thing I'd add is foam sheet between the rim face and the cardboard, as cardboard is pretty abrasive. Also, I didn't bother wrapping the outside in plastic.
Function before fashion.
'96 Contour SE
"Toss the Contour into a corner, and it's as easy to catch as a softball thrown by a preschooler." -Edmunds, 1998
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Insure them, it's worth the extra $5 or so (per tire) I shipped rims in 4 Gateway computer boxes. Two made it, two didn't. Insurance paid full replacment cost. So I paid the buyee his money back for his two lost rims, and got my full amount from UPS. Neither one of us lost,,, just UPS.
"Fear is the little death."
Muadib.
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