Importing Wheels

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:46

Spotted a couple of sets of wheels I may be interested in, only problem is they're located in the USA.

Anyone have any experience in importing wheels/heavy items from there? Never really bought anything that expensive (£1500) from abroad and was wondering the best was of going about paying and shipping them here.

Thanks

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 14:51

For £3200 yes, for one of the sets, the others are discontinued anyway.

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:05

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:23

Hmmm I thought they'd be much more in the EU, however looking on German Bay it seems not!

Edit: Scrap that price is per wheel!

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:26

Unlight said:
What car are they going on?

Are they BBS LM's? To be honest there is no way I would be putting a set of £2-3k wheels on anything thats not super special. The BBS replicas that are going about at the moment are of a good quality, and can be had for approx £600!

BBS RS-GT

I would rather walk than put replica wheels on my car.

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:30

Captain_Slick said:
Am I the only one who doesn't get awful looking, ridiculous expensive alloys?

May I suggest an eye test?

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 15:38

Unlight said:
I'd rather have 2k in my pocket, to spend on drink and women (or some performance mods if thats your thing), and no-one would be any the wiser.

I'm not an alcoholic and I don't have to pay for women to sleep with me.

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 17:01

DrDee said:
Would be such a waste!

Why?

NeilMick · 12 Jun 2009 at 22:21

For the set, approx £800 per wheel in the EU.

NeilMick · 13 Jun 2009 at 12:22

Just found out a good friend of mine is going out to the city where they are in a few weeks, would it be horrendously expensive to bring them back as extra luggage? Or would he be better off sending them back separately?

NeilMick · 13 Jun 2009 at 14:54

Turbo-G said:
I imported some SSR wheels from the States (CA) last year, and paid ~ £200 - £250 shipping.

They took ~2 weeks to arrive IIRC. Deffinately worth doing if said wheels are hard to pick up in the UK, or you can grab a bargain.

Who did you ship them with?