Woohoo! "Reserved" myself a set of used Insight tires (Bridgestone Potenza RE92)

[MetroMPG]

Bizarre: Tirerack.com will ship 4 new ones to Canada for $85.76

[RobertSmalls]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

anybody know how tires are shipped? Do they come in boxes? Wrapped up somehow?

Strapped together in pairs with those self-adhesive plastic or steel bands, with a shipping label adhered to the sidewall. Since that requires special equipment (afaik), I'd ask at the packaging store.

Actually, given the minuscule weight of Insight tires, you may be able to strap all four of them together as a single package.

[MetroMPG]

Thanks. I'll reprice shipping with them bound in pairs. Maybe it'll be less than the single price...

Regardless, I think I'm going to ask EM's closest-to-me New York member if I could have them sent to his place & I'll go pick them up. (He's actually much closer to me by boat than by car... but I know that going by boat -- especially at this time of year -- will raise a giant Customs & Immigration eyebrow and complicate things even more).

[Christ]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Thanks. I'll reprice shipping with them bound in pairs. Maybe it'll be less than the single price...

Regardless, I think I'm going to ask EM's closest-to-me New York member if I could have them sent to his place & I'll go pick them up. (He's actually much closer to me by boat than by car... but I know that going by boat -- especially at this time of year -- will raise a giant Customs & Immigration eyebrow and complicate things even more).

Shipping tires is as simple as packing tape.

Last time I shipped some tires, they were shipped oversize... then again, they were 54" off-road tires, too.

You can tie them together with sisal twine and then packing tape over that. Tie/tape them in three places around the tires, banded in pairs, and affix a shipping label similarly.

You probably won't want to ship them all four as a pack, because that will exceed dimensional-weight restrictions, probably. It may not. (Dimensional weight is what USPS uses when something has an odd shape or is larger than specific dimensions. It just means they base the price on size rather than weight.)

I know that as long as it's less than 70lbs, you can ship it USPS.

[MetroMPG]

thanks, Topher!

[Daox]

I've shipped tires once. I did pretty much as Christ said. I just slap two tires together and get out the packing tape and put a few loops around them. Seems to work great.

[Sulfuric]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Crud. Looks like $42 per tire to ship to Canada via USPS. Kinda defeats the purpose.

It might be cheaper to drive and pick them up with your car
And then you can put them on when you buy them and drive back on your new tires

[MetroMPG]

Just recording some stats here for easy future reference:

USPS - Calculate Postage

From: tennesse-37050 (houston 77001 $58 from this zip via USPS, $38 via UPS)
To: morristown NY 13664
weight: 13 lbs/tire
size: 22.5 x 22.5 x 6.5

1 tire: $14.03 Parcel post 6 days

2 tires: $19.80

So, it's cheaper to tape 2 tires together.

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From 85701 Tucson
$30.75 USPS parcel post per pair
$26.63 UPS per pair

From 85736 AZ to 13679 NY
$30.75 USPS parcel post per pair
$43.75 UPS per pair

[MetroMPG]

Originally Posted by Sulfuric

It might be cheaper to drive and pick them up with your car
And then you can put them on when you buy them and drive back on your new tires

Good idea! The only problem is I currently don't have any tires on the 14 inch rims I bought.

So it'd be a bumpy ride down there. (Though my rolling resistance would be awesome!)

[wdb]

RE92's came stock on my '00 Legacy. They are low cost OEM tires. And they are junk. They are not LRR (or they weren't in 2000), they don't last particularly long, and worst of all they hydroplane terribly once they get about halfway to the wear bars; and no, pumping up the pressure does not help. One night on damp roads I almost spun my car off the road backwards because of those horrid things. I got new tires the very next week, in spite of the fact that RE92's were not yet worn out. NOT recommended.