Date:         Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:25:17 -0700
Reply-To:     '80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         '80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG>
Subject:      Re: 15" SA wheels - they are inexpensive
Comments: To: eric.giroux@NRC.CA
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I have been thinking about this possibility for a while since I am still working on getting some auxillary gas tanks from SA.

The secret would be to use a freight consolidator. I have used www.forwardair.com may times in the past to ship heavy stuff but they are strictly North American. What city is SA are you shipping from? If both you and they are in port cities it may be WAY cheaper than you think.

I noticed that http://www.transglobalexpress.co.uk ships from Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, an Richards Bay.

In Canada they ship to: Corner Brook, Halifax and St.John's

In the US they ship to: Baltimore, Houston, LA, New York, Tacoma

They do full containers and partials. Who knows how small a shipment you'd be able to do. I did not inqure as to rates but by way of example fedex wanted $700 to ship a pool table from Toronto to LA www.forwardair.com wanted $70... it doesn't take a math wizz to divide by ten.

Thanks,
Chris

P.S. Don't get me started on Fedex...

On Tue, 26 June 2001, Éric Giroux wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I exchanged a few emails with VW South Africa.  Here is the price of the
> 15" wheels (over there):
>
> Alloys:         90 USD
> Steels: 50 USD
>
> They have no problems sending these to us.  It's the shipping that kills
> us!... They quoted me aroud $500 USD to send them to North America (10kg
> each, using FedEx). There's got to be cheaper shipping options...
>
> Though you might be interesed.
>
> Éric

Thanks,
Chris Gronski
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