Tiny... please please read your posts before you put them up. It takes me twice as long to figure out what you are saying.

Matt, definitely check with a freight company first. Also be aware that quarantine have restrictions/requirements for tyres

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sorry i forgot to carry the T ..... me still learndeddedd...

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower

you'll get there mate.... lol

yeh they are already together.... i dont think he can be bothered taking them off.... wat if he was to completely deflate them? wold that work? every time i try to get an account going with one of the couriers.... (UPS and what not) they go through all of my details, then ask the company name... and im all like ummm... no im a private importer... then they're all like... we'll call you lol

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why dont you just get the guy to organise the freight from his end and send it FOB (as in he pays all charges up until place of export then you incur charges thereafter - taxes, aqis, fright etc). Just get him to send it freight collect. They will ring you once it clears Customs/AQIS so you can pay and bob's your uncle

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im still a wee bit confused by that jess... can you dumb it down a little further for me

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Huddersfield Spares sent mine inflated by air - presumably in first class pressurised cabins they're okay...

Not saying you're wrong - it sounds right, but mine turned up in about 10 days.

I know you cant even have air in your bicycle tyres on a plane, so i think Tiny sounds right.

Do they let the tyres the planes tyres down before it takes off?

Let me see, you're flying 35,000 feet in the sky, there is a fire in the cargo hold, so intense that it cause rubber tyres to explode. i think they got more problems to worry about than the tyres adding a little extra oxygen to the mix.

I hope you don't believe everyting you see on CSI programs too.

I work at the airport.
When we send wheel assemblies to another station or return borrowed wheels we have to deflate the tyres.
Safety issue.
Tyre pressure to high, & with reduced air pressure at altitude they go boom..

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tyres pressurised to 30 PSI then traveling very hight and the Cargo goes depressurised...not pretty

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As morris1100 said, what happens to the tires on the plane?
I don't think that they are deflated and then re-inflated just before landing are they?
Cheers Pete

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From memory (when I was working airside at Mascot 12 or so years ago so could well be wrong) plane tyres are filled with Nitrogen as it stays stable with changes to temperature . According to a Qantas engineer who gave me the cooks tour of a 747-400 , at cruising altitudes (someone can fill in the details) the outside air temp is around -20 degrees and Nitrogen is more stable than normal compressed air .

I don't know for sure about the whole tyres inflated in luggage areas and the rules etc but it would be well worth discussing with the freight companies to see if that is one of the problems with shipping the wheels/tyres intact .

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If tyres are deflated they are a quarantine risk...
all of our tyres have to be inflated on rims.
if not big trouble
second hand tyres come under a whole new set of tougher rules.
Even our new tyres were all looked over for signs of water marks and larvae.

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hmmm well i suppose it's all down on company and proticall... alot of members saying u can travel with them inflated and have done it and alot saying you cant due to safety issues..


with the episode from ACI i told it wrong it was actually one of the tyres exploded mid flight hitting a wiring harness which split and sparked and lit up some of the contents in the cargohold. now they believe that even though the fire was a problem in itself the tyres that were stored inflated were overpressursing and exploding cause damage through to the cabin and exterior of the plane. the plane didnt survive.

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oil leak?..what oil leak..that puddle under the car is just sweat from all that horsepower