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Old 10-04-09, 06:00 PM
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Default Best way to ship wheels?

Hopefully this is the right place to post this. I'm trying to sell my set of iForged wheels with tires and was wondering what's the best method to ship them?


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Ground shipping...
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Ground shipping...
thanks! mainly asking do people just put a piece of cardboard over the face of the wheels and then tape two together or do people box them up?
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cardboard on both sides, and then justd tape and wrap the hell out of them
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Best method is by trunk, the way I recently sold my iForged wheels. But if distance is a factor, ship the wheels only w/o tires.
If you are really glutton for punishment then yes, I tape cardboard all over the face of the wheel, double for yours as there real wheels. Tape the heck out of it and prepare to pay for a hefty fee+ a irregular size fee for shipping.
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the guy work at FEDEX usually do the packaging for me. He will sometime stuff some type of foam free of charge. Maybe drive to the nearest location, FEDEX, UPS, or whatever it is and ask them method and price check.
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Old 10-04-09, 11:42 PM
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If you take into a fedex store they will help you. I am sure they have wrapped things like that before For me it seems like a a pain in the ***. I still have a set of set of 17" G35 wheels with nitto racing tires fro my old track days, and I have a set of 19" Axis hagen chrome wheels. I need to clean the closet out.
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I think everyones wheels cam e by truck and in carboard and plastic.. Just make there wrapped good.. I actually think a 18 wheeler delivered mine..
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