5 captured repliesDiscussion pagination complete · Source accounts, not a confirmed diagnosis
THIS DISCUSSION / SOURCE-DERIVED OVERVIEW
Discussion summary
YOUR RESEARCHhow do you box/ship a set of wheels/tires???
Leading reported evidence
Set shipping charges are about $25/35 per wheel
Suggestion or failed attempt
No successful repair reported for this finding.
0
Reported fixes
0
Unsuccessful attempts
1
Discussions
Read evidence and context
Explicit resolution reports before identified causes, performed actions and suggestions. Within each level, matching component labels precede direct query mentions and inherited thread context; successful versus unsuccessful discussion counts, owner confirmations and independent discussion support determine order. This is not a probability of success.
Discussions that contain suggestions
1
0 original-poster resolution reports. Counts can overlap; they are not unique people or a success rate.
0 discussions have direct query context; 0 report a fix in that context. Other evidence may inherit the discussion’s subject.
Suggestion · Original poster
Ive noticed on ebay most wheel/tire set shipping charges are about $25/35 per wheel.
Leading evidence: 'Set shipping charges are about $25/35 per wheel' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, The most frequently discussed action is 'Set shipping charges are about $25/35 per wheel' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.
Source reports, not a diagnosis or a success probability. Counts refer to discussions and can overlap.
Counts describe captured discussions, not unique people or a diagnosis. Author identities are not reliably stored. Exact duplicate evidence is counted once across matching discussions; one discussion counts at most once per action/state. Multiple repairs reported together remain a combination. Suggestions and failed attempts do not establish a fix. Matches cover whole discussions and can include related faults, model variants and incomplete threads.
5 eligible posts · 0 unverified posts · 1 discussions match the subject in their title or opening post.
Rennlist: 1 discussions
0 evidence records excluded for query context · 0 excluded by outcome qualification · 0 adjusted by outcome qualification.
0 acknowledgements have no verified action link; they do not establish a repair result.
Generation: 20261026T152433Z · outcome-qualification-6. Deterministic extraction; no AI model inference. How we use sources
Hi all,
I am having a friend ship a set of wheels with tires to me.
What is the best/cheapest method of boxing and shipping.
They will be going about 500 miles.
Can you fit 2 in a box?? or one box each?? Where can you get boxes to fit??
How do you pack to ensure the shipping monkeys dont scratch or damage??
I am in no hurry so guess ups or fedex ground is the cheapest??
How much does a 17" wheel with a tire weigh??
Ive noticed on ebay most wheel/tire set shipping charges are about $25/35 per wheel.
Any advice would be appreciated!!!!!!!!
If tires are mounted, the best way is to stuff packing around the wheel, then cut out round carboard and place it on front and back of each wheel. Tape it up good and then buy some plastic shrink wrap and put all around each wheel separately. UPS ground is around 100 bucks total for all 4 separately wrapped, unless you are going across country east to west or vice versa. The tires make really good packing material and keep wheel from being damaged. Just put soft packing between wheels and cardboard so you don't get any light scratches from the packing material. Newspaper works, but I have had good luck with bubble wrap.
The way that Tire Rack ships tires mounted on wheels is to just put round cardboard around each side of each tire, and then they strap the cardboard on with plastic strap. They ship each tire/wheel separately. Since you don't have a strapping machine, you can just tape the cardboard by taping around from one side to the other and then over again (like spokes of a wheel). I did that to ship back a set to them. You then tape the shipping label to the cardboard. The cost of ground shipping should be no more than $12 per tire/wheel going half-way across the country.
i tried to ship it the tirerack way with UPS and FedEx but they both balked - saying that they would probably ruin the tire. so i was forced to ship them in a box, 2 per box. ended up costing around $200 to go from Atlanta to LA. I probably got taken advantage of but atleast you now know the upper limit
ps - these were brand new 17" Boxster S II wheels/tires
