Wheel/tire shipping question
 

For those who have done it, how does FedEX/UPS need a set of mounted wheels and tires to be prepped for shipping? Do they need to be boxed?

Any tips are appreciated? Thanks. :rock:

I work at a tire shop and get deliveries all the time. This is how they come.

Wheel alone:
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Tires alone:
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Wheel and tire mounted:
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there's no such thing as white glove treatment; just the opposite. Some shipping employees will try to tear your stuff up even. If it's cosmetic you better take extra precautions to protect it. The heavier it is the more protection it requires.

the biggest mistake most people make is to rty and use bubble wrap or peanuts with heavy items. Those things only work with light stuff. Heavy items just smash them to smithereens and then get damaged when the shipping guys thrown them onto conveyors or into trucks, and they do THROW them ...

you have to use dense stuff like brown kraft paper, newspaper or dense foam like the big wall sheets at Home Depot etc.. Lightweight cooler type styro-foam just gets torn up with heavy/sharp edged stuff too.

not so applicable to mounted wheels and tires, just general because in my experience most people have no idea how to pack stuff properly for shipping


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