Shipping Car Parts From UK

Big Nasty

Hi all,

Just bought some car parts from a private ebay seller in the UK, i.e. not a company selling wheels or the like. The part in particular is about 2m X 0.5m and heavy-ish. It was sold as 'collect / organise your own courier' so I have to get it picked up and delivered to Dublin. The dude is located in Manchester. Any advice on how to go about this with an 'oversized' package like this would be greatly appreciated!

B00MSTICK

I've registerd on http://www.shiply.com/ to see what its like, I'll let you know how it works out.

TomMc

I have heard of Paisley Freight mentioned on other forums for stuff like wheels (I think). Never used them or know what areas they cover. Otherwise I would have a look at sites like parcel2go or maybe get a price with DPD.

Big Nasty

Thanks for the help lads!

quarryman

These guys shipped an engine over from the UK for me for a very reasonable price.

http://www.birds.co.uk/

alias no.9

You could PM Cormie, he does deliveries and from his comments around here some times, I got the impression he does UK trips from time to time.

B00MSTICK

I've had a bid from a company to deliver an FTO bonnet from York to Galway for £36 including VAT, hopefully I'll get a few more bids and it might work out even cheaper.

Fishtits

If it can be palletised try here: www.tpn.ie

JoeySully

iv used http://www.wedelivertheworld.co.uk/ twice recently and was quite happy with their service and price
got one item from the UK in less than 24hrs from pickup

cormie

alias no.9 wrote: »

You could PM Cormie, he does deliveries and from his comments around here some times, I got the impression he does UK trips from time to time.

Thanks for the recommendation, however, with something small like car parts, you would probably find a much cheaper price elsewhere. I specialise in urgent/important/valuable dedicated van load deliveries where an appointed collection and pick up time is required with a same or next day delivery service. I could only ever compete if the collection/delivery point is near an already booked route. As my business is relatively new, I would only be going once every 2 or 3 months so it would be rare but perhaps worth a pm

Big Nasty

Thanks Cormie, all sorted through BOOMSTICK's recommendation!

Cheers anyhow dude!

B00MSTICK

Yea, it seems very handy alright

Any chance you can guide me through the process post accepting a bid MCMLXXV? PM if you like.

Big Nasty

B00MSTICK wrote: »

Yea, it seems very handy alright

Any chance you can guide me through the process post accepting a bid MCMLXXV? PM if you like.

It's handy enough, even handier if you've purchased off ebay coz they can calc the address, etc. Just enter details, wait for quote, choose best one (hit accept button on preferred quote), pay deposit (£6 in my case). Then they contact you directly for exact shipping details and you pay balance. All looked pretty simple to me. That said I haven't got the part yet so I hope all will be ok! let ya know when I do! Thanks again for the link dude!

B00MSTICK

Ah grand, thought it would be something like that. Thanks.

Seemed like it could save a few us some euros so I said I'd post it up anyway.

jozi

Not sure if he posts on boards but one of the lads on e30woners does pallets from the uk to ireland, here's their site: http://www.palletstoireland.com/

Good luck with it and let us know how you get on!

darragh o meara

Try fastway.ie I got a steering rack sent over from the UK last week for 20 euro