I need to ship 3 wheels and tires, anyone have a good way to do this?
I was thinking a pair of 5mm ply circles with cardboard and bubble wrap on the insides with giant A/C zipties, around 2 and 1 so there will be 2 packages. if I went around all 3 it would weigh something like 150lbs, I'm not sure I want to pay shipping on that.
Wheels are 17x9 and weigh approx 23 lbs each, and I estimated and doubled the weight for the monster meats on them. so ~50lbs each.
Thanks in advance!
Every time I've gotten wheels and tires, they've just had a couple layers of heavy cardboard between them and were ziptied, strapped, or just taped together face to face. Never had a shipping issue. I agree, you don't want to do more than a pair at a time.
There are piles of cardboard easily accessible behind the furniture place on 23rd and 13th.
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?1866300-How-to-Ship-Wheels-Must-Read!
I followed this. I have a heavenly cardboard dumpster at work that supplies an endless amount of free boxes and cardboard.
With my FedEx account, I spent around $25 per wheel/tire to ship to Kentucky.
Tire rack shipping instructions From that thread:
Tape or Zipties? 
HMMMMM I wonder if my old job will let me use the banding machine for a few minutes.
MrJoshua wrote: Tire rack shipping instructions From that thread:
Every time I have attempted to ship something like this I get hit with a "non-standard packaging" fee from UPS. I can get tires banded together from tire rack just fine, but if I try that it is another $15 per package
I have done tires face to face with cardboard in between then wrap the set with pallet style shrink wrap (giant Suranwrap). Once done go around a couple times with package tape also.
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Learned the hard way a couple of years ago on an Ebay transaction. Wheels wrapped as above were considered "non standard packaging" per UPS and incurred ridiculous handling fees. "Well you see, we can't just put them on the conveyor belt because they are not in a box"...
i've had no such problem with UPS
We'll see.
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I would add some tape too in case the plastic gets compromised.
Put a shipping label on each.
Oooooh pretty! 
Yeah I got to thinking about it, the cardboard is taped under the shrink wrap, but there is no reason to not add a wrap or two of tape in a few directions outside the wrap. Might add another layer of cardboard to the faces even with the couple layers of bubble wrap under there.
Even with insurance these are a bit of a bear to find. No reason to possibly ding them and make this a pain for everyone.
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