shippin rims / RS2 / 4 thread

[RyanWeath at aol.com]

I've sold a set of rims on ebay, you can use UPS it's pretty cheap.  To ship 
4 15" OE Coupe Quattro wheels from Chicago to DC cost me $35 including 
insurance.  You can either go to a wheel/tire store and get actual rim boxes, 
which not only fit the rims perfectly but are near indestructable for 
shipping, or you can do as the tirerack does, strap rims together with 
cardboard/bubblerap circles protecting the inner and outter edges.   You can 
mail loose rims/tire through UPS like that, but I think they charge a small 
special handling fee per item.  Moral of the story is, a box is not nesecary 
if you can devise a way to safely protect the rims.  However, if you can find 
a box, it makes life a lot easier.

UPS can pick up at your house for a small fee $5 or so i think.  
1-800-pick-ups.  I'd advise against using a middle man (mailboxes etc, etc) 
unless you dont mind grabbing your ankles and assuming the position.

In a message dated 12/1/00 1:14:48 AM Central Standard Time, quattro-
request at audifans.com writes:

> 
>  > Hi List,
>  >
>  > I secured a set of rims for my 5k via ebay.  Neither the seller nor 
myself
>  > have ever shipped rims.  Anyone have any hints on how to best package a 
> set
>  > of 4 16" rims, and who to ship them via?
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > Bernard Littau
>  > Woodinville, WA
>  > '88 5ktq


I'm conserving bandwith here, consolidating my thoughts into one mesage. . on 
the RS2/4 thread from the other day someone suggested that audi must have had 
extra avant bodies left over and that is why they chose to make the R vehicle 
out of them.  I would quite disagree.  I think its just a novelty for the 
manufactuers to take your biggest baddest engine and stuff it in your biggest 
car.  Muscle car guys have been souping up wagons here in the states since 
back in the day.  Even today, I know a guy who dropped a LT-4 vette engine w/ 
a 150hp shot of NOS in his Chevy Caprice wagon, it ran 13.1 in the 1/4.  
Another guy I met in Indianapolis one time had AMG stuff a 5.xx liter v8 in 
his previous bodystyle E-series wagon, it ran low 13's in the 1/4.  The 
previous bodystyle (which would make it the 2nd of 3 bodystyles?) WMB m5 was 
factory available as an avant in Germany too.

Having just received my hardcover German language RS4 brochure, I can 
testify, the RS4 is one of the meanest vehicles I have ever seen, defintely 
the best looking wagon in my opnion too.  0-100km/h in 5.9 or so I think the 
brochure stated.

-Ryan
Chicago, IL 
'91 CQ