• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

shipping tires/wheels. Fedex or UPS?

Status
Not open for further replies.
R

railer

Golden Member
Rates are about exactly the same for either.

What I want to know is: Which one is easier? In other words, I don't want to have to box, or wrap, or do much funking around with these. Is one more tire shipping friendly than the other? It seems to me that I had a very good experience with Fedex a few years ago, when someone shipped me some tires, and they were pretty much loose tires with a Fedex label tape to the side. But that was years ago and the details are foggy...
This will be for four approx 55lb each, tires mounted on wheels, FWIW.

If anyone has current experience please chime in. Thanks!
 
When I get tires from tirerack they come UPS, bound together in pairs with plastic shipping ties and plastic wrap. If I got wheels, I'd want them in boxes. Wheels with tires, I dunno, I'd probably still want them boxed but you might be able to bind them/wrap them into a column.
 
I shipped wheels/tires via Fedex after wrapping them with that stretchy wrap stuff that comes on a roll from moving supply places. I sent them in pairs wrapped together.
 
For tires on wheels, as the bare minimum I'd tape/wrap a flat piece of cardboard over the wheel to protect it from damage during shipment. If the wheels are nothing special, you could get away with just stretch wrapping them up.
You dont have to go quite this route, but you probably should.
http://www.tirerack.com/about/return_tires_wheels.jsp

At 55lbs each, they should all be sent as separate packages imo. You could get away with combining two together, but you will be over the 75lb mark which makes them awkward for handling and requires them to marked as heavy. In my experience, the more heavy the package, the higher the chance of damage.
 
When I got winter rims & tires all mounted up from Tirerack, they came UPS wrapped like in the link above and everything was fine. Actually they would be pretty hard to damage that way.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top