Shipping wheels

[satyajitmenon]

Anyone here have any experience with shipping wheels + tires?

I've got a buyer for a spare set of wheels & tires I've got.

I checked the websites of UPS, Fedex & USPS and it looks like it's gonna be anywhere from $50-75 per tire. That just sounds absurd. How do discounttire, tirerack and the lot offer free shipping if it costs anywhere near those numbers?

 

[spaceman]

im guessin volume

 

[jlee]

I haven't seen Tirerack offer free shipping, but it's usually $50-60 for me for four tires.

Have you tried Greyhound? They ship big stuff cheaper than the other carriers..it just takes a while.

 

[JCH13]

Shipping wheel+tire combos can get expensive, they're probably 40-50+lbs each, right? And they can take up quite a bit of space.

Shipping the tiny, light tires for my Miata from tirerack in CT to NH was $45, but they only weighed 19lbs/ea and they were shipped ground FWIW.

 

[DesiPower]

Its very expensive for individuals, business can quote free shipping coz they get freight shipping option form these companies which is very cheap

 

[compman25]

Get a pallet and strap them to it and have a real LTL freight company haul them. Estes was pretty cheap, I was able to get 4 42" tires and wheels from Missouri to Washington for $100 last year.

 

[alkemyst]

What if you just lined them up and rolled them down a very large hill?

 

[Malak]

That's why most wheels on ebay show $200 for shipping.

 

[T2urtle]

for a tire/rim combo you can normally strap 2 together with cardboard between them and ship them that way.

should come out to be about a 20x20x20 @ 55lbs. I think fedex charged me $45-75 but i do remember i did fedex cause it was cheaper then UPS/DHL and USPS.

 

[exdeath]

Never with tires mounted, but I've ordered wheels online, and had to send several back. I'd ordered a set of 4 and 1 or 2 had damage on the lips. Company responded right away, they sent a replacement along with the UPS return and claim for the damaged wheels, and one of the replacements was also damaged.

You could see on the box that the edge was impacted hard because it was bruised and cut, and sure enough, it was hard enough for the plastic protector ring on the lip to have a 1"+ gash in it right at the edge and a corresponding dent in the wheel lip.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I shipped 4x 17" winter wheels + tires for my LS from IA to TX (I know, I know, figured I might as well since they've only seen ONE midwest winter) via FedEx Home. Cost me ~$90 total.

Slapped some cardboard on the front and back, wrapped the whole shebang up :

No worries - arrived just fine - in 1.5 days no less 😵
The staff at the copy center (authorized FedEx drop off) were like "wtf eh?" XD

 

[Zap]

I checked the websites of UPS, Fedex & USPS and it looks like it's gonna be anywhere from $50-75 per tire. That just sounds absurd. How do discounttire, tirerack and the lot offer free shipping if it costs anywhere near those numbers?

What an individual shipping one time pays for the service can be very different from what a company with a shipping account and which does huge volumes pay.

 

[Gillbot]

I shipped 4x 17" winter wheels + tires for my LS from IA to TX (I know, I know, figured I might as well since they've only seen ONE midwest winter) via FedEx Home. Cost me ~$90 total.

Slapped some cardboard on the front and back, wrapped the whole shebang up :

No worries - arrived just fine - in 1.5 days no less 😵
The staff at the copy center (authorized FedEx drop off) were like "wtf eh?" XD

That's how i've always shipped. I think the most I spent was $125 and it was for a set of 5 from Ohio to California.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I shipped 4x 17" winter wheels + tires for my LS from IA to TX (I know, I know, figured I might as well since they've only seen ONE midwest winter) via FedEx Home. Cost me ~$90 total.

Slapped some cardboard on the front and back, wrapped the whole shebang up :

No worries - arrived just fine - in 1.5 days no less 😵
The staff at the copy center (authorized FedEx drop off) were like "wtf eh?" XD

Bingo. Create a Fedex account online with a credit card behind it and you'll get a few percent off.

It's much easier if you're shipping with tires on them, as shown in the photo above. I shipped a set of 18x7.5 wheels without tires and between the cost of boxes & proper packing materials, just had the Fedex store package them. It cost a bit more, which I split with the buyer, but they 100% guarantee safe arrival and will reimburse the value of the contents if the packing doesn't do its job.