United Kingdom shipping help?

[Mastrcruse]

I am trying to find out how much shipping would be from the UK to the US. I am using the rates option in fedex.com but it wants and postal code or zip code and I have been searching and pluging different ones in and it always comes up with an error. Anyone have suggestions or know a postal/zip code for UK?

Thanks

[Rigmaster]

London SW1

[Mastrcruse]

Thanks, I just tried and what I am looking at would be like 105-200 dollars to ship, do you think this is low or high? I am looking at a M-tech front and rear bumper.
Thanks

[Rigmaster]

sounds like quite a range, $105 sounds way cheap though to ship all that....


Bret.

[marakka]

I know of a person on here who got a package deal on a complete mtech II kit. All in all shipping for the complete kit was over 600 USD from England but it only took 2 days to get to him. 105-200 sounds REAL cheap for the biggest parts of that kit.

[Mastrcruse]

thats what I thought but thats the qoute of the rate that fedex gave me but I also thought that it was really cheap

[Rigmaster]

thats what I thought but thats the qoute of the rate that fedex gave me but I also thought that it was really cheap

Did you enter ACCURATE dimensions?? Size makes a HUGE difference here. Also, are you sure that quote was in US$ and not British Pounds??

Bret.

[Mastrcruse]

Does anyone have a clue (estimate) how big the box would be? I said that the box would be 40 lbs, 7 feet long, 4 ft wide, 2.5 ft tall. The items would be the front and rear part of the kit, no sides. Am I guessing on the size, does it weigh more the 40 lbs?

[Mastrcruse]

Yep US dollars and dimensions are above

[marakka]

The rear bumper and valance weighs 40lbs alone I'd guess. Its HEAVY.... remember.... its the whole bumper. I'd guess it to be more along the lines of 60-70lbs

[Mastrcruse]

Okay I don't know how I got such a low number the first time but now it is giving me $1600 bucks to ship

[Rigmaster]

Something's wrong- they don't normally take things that are the size you listed- OR they would charge a HUGE "oversize" charge. Besides that, there's no way the bumper is 7 ft long.......

Go out to your car and measure your US bumper width, then measure how far it is from each corner of the car to the wheel well to estimate the side length.

[Mastrcruse]

Car is 2 hours away haha, I would if i could, for 1600 bucks I will just buy it from Abraham Motorsports

[Rigmaster]

BWAHHAHHAHAHA

sorry man- It had to be too good to be true.

Best bet would be to find a friend of a friend who works for a "freight forwarder".

I would expect to pay ~$200 to ship that stuff within the US, much more from UK to US....


Bret.

[Mastrcruse]

I was just over estimating so I don't get a low ass number to get my hopes up but I obviously didn't recieve that on my last one