hi, i hope this the the correct forum for this question. i need to ship a wheel/tire package. i know when i received from TireRack, they had cardboard at each end of the wheel, with those tough nylon wraps around each. they just came stacked up like that.

i'm sure i can get ahold of cardboard and cut it, but is there somewhere i can just purchase circular cardboard? any ideas where i can obtain those nylon wraps, or something to serve the same function?

how do you ship wheels/tires that you've sold?

thanks for your help,
phil

 

There's a lot of good advice in this previous post, which includes advice about packing tape to use the way Tire Rack uses those nylon bands. I get cardboard disks by finding big flattened cardboard boxes (look at the loading docks behind stores) and cutting them in circles.

 

UPS requires at least 2" of packaging on either side.

This is just incase for damage to the package. You are better off finding the right size box and put bubble wrap on the bottom of the box and top of the box.

They toss that crap around like its nothing. We watch our UPS driver do it everyday when picking up

 

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Not true. You can ship wheels and tires just as he described, with cardboard on the sides and nothing around the tires other than something to hold the cardboard on. No need for a box...