Hey Everyone. I just sold a set of 17" wheels with mounted tires off my old honda civic and I now need to ship them. How does everyone around here ship theirs? I'm shipping USPS and they don't allow over 70 pounds per package and so I need to ship each wheel/tire individually. Came out to about $20 a piece based on weight and large package. Do I actually need to put each wheel in its own box or do I cover up the wheel portion with cardboard, tape it down well, and just ship the wheel unpacked. I know discount tire just sends their tires out of box connected by plastic strips. How does tire rack and discount tire mail their mounted wheel/tire packages. Finding a box for these is going to be a bitch. Please let me know. Thanks for the help!

Evan

Edit: Someone at work suggested I put cardboard over the wheel parts and then wrap the whole thing in bubble wrap and then tape everything down and mail it. I think this sounds like the best thing to do.

my last set it got from tirerack came two strapped together with cardboard protection the face of the wheel. I've also shipped some tires that way. You my also might want to look into fedex ground, it's cheaper the usps, I alot safer.

Hope that helps

Here are the Tire Rack's wheel/tire packagaing instructions:

Wheels only: http://www.tirerack.com/about/return_wheels.jsp

Wheels with tires: http://www.tirerack.com/about/return_tires_wheels.jsp

Here are the Tire Rack's wheel/tire packagaing instructions:

Wheels only: http://www.tirerack.com/about/return_wheels.jsp

Wheels with tires: http://www.tirerack.com/about/return_tires_wheels.jsp
The wheel and tire thing is pretty much what I ended up doing except I did a layer of bubble rap and a then a layer of cardboard. It cost $87 to ship all four USPS with $125 of insurance per wheel and delivery confirmation.