Couriering Car Body Parts?

Anything I've had collected, I had to do all the packaging.

If its of any use, new panels come with just dense polystyrene blocks on the corners, but they're just primer and I take it you need to keep the paint absolutely undamaged, and the courier isn't going to be TNT?
 
Alloys sold, that's £220 my way, then £40 postage.

I recall reading somewhere that letting most of the air out is a good idea as it means that they are reduced in weight?

Makes sense as they are under 40+ PSI of pressure, so compressed air, which isn't as light as uncompressed air in the same volume of space.

I think I'll use wheelcourier.com as they are about average price and seems from some googling that they are a half decent company to use.

EDIT: Oh and when it says "4 x Wheels and tyres up to 17" wheel diameter" does that mean the alloy before tyre or the whole thing inclusive of tyre?
 
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we use citylink at work

i see them kicking the heavy parcels to the back of the van. We send out 1500VA UPS' out via courier and they obviously dont want to pick them up being heavy

so just kick them about the van instead :(
 
I don't mind them kicking the wheels about...will hurt themselves more than the wheels. :p

One thing I don't like about the wheelcourier site is they make no mention of tracking numbers, that is something I most definitely want!
 
InvaderGIR said:
I recall reading somewhere that letting most of the air out is a good idea as it means that they are reduced in weight?

Makes sense as they are under 40+ PSI of pressure, so compressed air, which isn't as light as uncompressed air in the same volume of space.
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That's a new one on me, I'm sceptical, lets see if it makes sense:

Constants, formulae and assumptions:
-The mass of air at 1 atmosphere of pressure is 1.2Kg/m^3.
-Using my own tyres, which are 195/55R15s, and require 2 bar of pressure above atmosphere.
-considering the volume of the tyre to be the volume of the cylinder representing the tyre, minus the volume of the cylinder representing the wheel.
-Volume of a cylinder = pi*radius*height

Calculations:
-Wheel & tyre hight: 0.195m
-Wheel radius: 0.191m ((15" in m) / 2)
-Tyre radius: 0.298m (0.195*0.55+0.191)
-Volume of wheel: 0.117m^3 (3.141592654*0.191*0.195)
-Volume of tyre: 0.066m^3 (3.141592654*0.298*0.195-0.117)

So, at road pressure there are 3 atmospheres of air in my tyres (2 bar + natural pressure), but the tyre full of this air displaces its on volume of air at 1 atmosphere, so we only need to count 2.

Weight saved per tyre by letting them down to 1 atmosphere of pressure (0 bar, 0 psi): 0.079 Kg (0.066*1.2).

79 grams. w00t :D
 
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I didn't mention that. :D

I booked them for pickup tomorrow at like 8pm today, so I think pickup is more likely to be Friday though as I've got a confirmation email, but no actual 'You will get someone picking them up x date between 8 and 6' email.
 
I'd probably wrap them heavily in bubble wrap and then secure them to a pallet using lots of industrial strength cling film.

Since he described the quote as "safe" can I assume he's in South Wales? I know someone who could use a few bob and would transport them carefully for you in the back of his Volvo. I need to give him his pallet back anyway. :)
 
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Wicksta said:
Thanks for the early morning chuckle. :D I must remember next time I'm shopping to empty all of the air out of my carrier bags before filling them with goods so they aren't so heavy. :D
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Compressed air is heavier than uncompressed air.

BigglesPiP said:
That's a new one on me, I'm sceptical, lets see if it makes sense:

Constants, formulae and assumptions:
-The mass of air at 1 atmosphere of pressure is 1.2Kg/m^3.
-Using my own tyres, which are 195/55R15s, and require 2 bar of pressure above atmosphere.
-considering the volume of the tyre to be the volume of the cylinder representing the tyre, minus the volume of the cylinder representing the wheel.
-Volume of a cylinder = pi*radius*height

Calculations:
-Wheel & tyre hight: 0.195m
-Wheel radius: 0.191m ((15" in m) / 2)
-Tyre radius: 0.298m (0.195*0.55+0.191)
-Volume of wheel: 0.117m^3 (3.141592654*0.191*0.195)
-Volume of tyre: 0.066m^3 (3.141592654*0.298*0.195-0.117)

So, at road pressure there are 3 atmospheres of air in my tyres (2 bar + natural pressure), but the tyre full of this air displaces its on volume of air at 1 atmosphere, so we only need to count 2.

Weight saved per tyre by letting them down to 1 atmosphere of pressure (0 bar, 0 psi): 0.079 Kg (0.066*1.2).

79 grams. w00t :D
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See. Granted it's sod all, but I can't remember where I read it originally and thought I'd check. :rolleyes:
 
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