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Old Aug 24, 2017 | 11:04 am
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FoxCL9
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Taking car tyres as checked-in baggage

Didn't think this far ahead and honestly, I'm a bit worried, but my dads flying back to ISB on EK-612 in a few hours and since we were getting a good deal here, we bought 4x Continental tires (245/45/R17) for our car back home, two tires are taped together and wrapped in transparent plastic, see the picture below:


My question here is, will these be accepted at check-in or will they refuse to carry them?
They shouldn't have an issue being scanned by security since the plastic wrapping is transparent and you can easily see that they're just tires and nothing else.

I've reached out to EK on Twitter but still waiting for a response.

However, I thought I'd post here and ask if any of you frequent EK travellers have had experience taking something this large and irregularly shaped?

All replies will be appreciated.
Regards,
murtaza12
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On a side note, EK did something very nice for me today. I had forgotten to book CD on my dads booking and I booked a car on the website about an hour ago, and since there's less than 12 hours left for the flight, call center agent said there's no guarantee, I called back 10 mins later since I forgot to ask how soon they'd inform me whether or not the booking was confirmed and the agent said he'd get in touch with CD, 2 minutes later after being put on hold, the agent said CD made an exception and confirmed my booking and emailed me a copy of the confirmation.
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