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Transporting is looking to be damn annoying-
standard policy here for every company I have contacted is that there can be NOTHING at all within the car-
You are allowed 'one spare tire and one jack', and the tire has to be secured in a wheel carrier.
Anything that can be removed from the car will be- I am told- at my loss and expense.
They claim it is for occupational health and safety... I am sure it is at least in part to create more freight business.
My wheel carrier is loose- it is an early FJ40 one and there is apparantly a different hole pattern- so it has not been drilled to match yet by the PO- and thus is not on the back of my truck.
So, I am going to have to try to have the spare big horn attatched to the wheel carrier and then strapped down inside the back-hopefully making it look like it is actually bolted down there- and then get the other six split rims and tires (there is seven available but one isn't roadworthy so shall be left- six should do me just fine as well) freighted down by a seperate company. Bloody hassle and more money.
I could just leave a set up there with my uncle and sell it off- but I figure for a couple-few hundred dollars it is worth getting a full set of rims and tires extra.
Anyway,
the truck is paid for, freight of it booked, booked into my local 4x4 diesel mechanics for a roadworty (Guests 4WD), and just have to book the freight of the tires.
Then the waiting game...
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