How to Ship Car and Motorcycle Parts by Courier in Malaysia

28 October 2026

Short answer: most car and motorcycle parts ship fine through a Malaysian courier if you sort them into four groups first. Heavy and compact parts, like brake discs, calipers, alternators and cylinder heads, go in a small double-wall carton they nearly fill, packed so they cannot move, because the risk is the part punching through the box. Fragile parts, like headlamps, mirrors, radiators and sensors, get the double-box method. Long and awkward parts, like bumpers, exhausts, drive shafts and doors, are measured against the courier’s dimension band first, and most full-size bumpers and panels go by cargo service or lorry instead. Oily or used parts are drained, double-bagged and declared, and batteries and fluids do not go at all through the standard networks, because the couriers’ prohibited lists name car and motorcycle batteries and flammable liquids. This guide covers what the couriers refuse, the size and weight bands that decide courier or lorry, how to pack each group, which once-used carton from RM1.10 takes which part, and the mistakes behind most parts claims.

What a courier will not take, and what it will take but bill as bulky

Start here, because the first question from a buyer on Mudah, Carousell, Shopee or a Facebook parts group is “boleh pos tak”, and the answer is sometimes no.

Batteries. The prohibited list published by Shopee’s own courier puts car batteries, motorcycle batteries and any lithium-ion batteries in its flammable, explosive and volatile group, alongside fireworks, kerosene and paint thinner. The other parcel networks’ lists and the booking platforms’ guides say the same for stand-alone batteries, and some couriers stopped carrying them to Sabah and Sarawak entirely. A boxed lead-acid battery is also at or past most per-piece weight bands. Sell a battery for collection, deliver it yourself inside the Klang Valley, or use a specialist service that accepts dangerous goods and tells you how to pack them.

Fluids and anything pressurised. Engine oil, gear oil, brake fluid, coolant, fuel additive, aerosol cleaners and a part sold with its oil still in it are flammable or restricted liquids on most lists. Our liquids guide covers what a courier will take in a sealed bottle, and the honest answer for workshop chemicals is that the parcel networks are not built for them.

Size and weight. Standard parcel services in Malaysia cap a single piece at about 30 kg, with a limit on the sum of length, width and height that sits between roughly 200 cm and 300 cm depending on the courier, and bill on the higher of actual and volumetric weight. A bumper, a bonnet, a door, a full exhaust, a propeller shaft and a wheel with the tyre on tend to fail the dimension test even when they pass the weight test. Our courier size and weight guide has the current bands and our bulky items guide explains when a cargo service or an on-demand lorry is the cheaper route. Measure the packed parcel, not the part, before you quote the buyer.

Used parts. Nothing stops a used part going by courier. What stops it is oil, coolant, brake dust or fuel smell inside the parcel, which a hub treats as a leak. The booking platforms list leaking and smelling parcels among the ones that are held, disposed of or charged back to the sender.

Step 1: sort the part into one of four groups

Group	Examples	What fails	Method
Heavy and compact	Brake discs and pads, calipers, alternator, starter, water pump, cylinder head, flywheel, sprocket, chain	The part punches through the carton, or crushes a corner	Snug double-wall carton, part immobilised, threads capped
Fragile	Headlamp and tail lamp, side mirror, radiator, intercooler, condenser, sensors, ECU, instrument cluster, meter	Lens cracks, core fins bend, connector snaps	Double box, 5 cm of filling, upright
Long and awkward	Bumper, bumper lip, side skirt, exhaust, drive shaft, strut, fairing, windscreen, door, bonnet	Over the dimension band; ends and corners dented	Layer pad sleeve and stretch film; courier only if inside the band, else cargo or lorry
Oily or used	Used engine and gearbox parts, turbo, injectors, fuel pump, shocks with oil, anything off a running car	Leak in the hub; parcel held or charged back	Drain, double-bag, absorbent pad, declare

A mixed order of parts follows the strictest group among them, exactly as a mixed marketplace parcel follows its most fragile item, and a heavy part never travels in the same carton as a fragile one.

Step 2: pack heavy and compact parts so they cannot move

A brake disc is a 7 kg steel plate with a sharp edge, and a carton it can slide in is a carton it will cut through. The method is the opposite of the fragile method: as little space as possible, and the part held still.

Cap and protect. Threads get a nut run on or a wrap of tape, machined faces get a layer of 2 mm PE foam or kraft, and anything with a seal face such as a cylinder head or a water pump gets a disc of layer pad taped over it. Loose bolts, clips and gaskets go in a zip bag taped to the part, not loose in the box.
Wrap for scratches, not for drops. One or two turns of bubble wrap or a sleeve of PE foam keeps the finish off the board. A heavy part does not need five layers of bubble; it needs a box it cannot move in.
Choose the smallest double-wall carton it fits. Single wall splits at the corners under a heavy part. The once-used Tyson at 430 x 300 x 160 mm, Royal at 400 x 300 x 125 mm, Vita at 400 x 250 x 190 mm and PM1073 at 420 x 220 x 190 mm are double wall and shaped for flat, dense parts; a pair of discs with a layer pad between them fits the Tyson with filling round the edge.
Floor and fill. A pad of double-wall layer pad on the carton floor, the part on it, folded layer pad or tightly crumpled kraft in every gap, another pad on top, and the shake test. If you can hear it, it is not packed.
H-seal with 48 mm tape, and reinforce the base. Two extra strips across the bottom seams on anything over 5 kg. Our tape guide covers why cheap tape lets go on a heavy carton in a hot lorry.
Weigh it, and split it. Over about 20 kg in one carton the hub handles it by dragging, and the corner that lands first fails. Two parcels of 10 kg travel better than one of 20, and the courier bands make the choice for you above 30 kg.

Step 3: pack fragile parts with the double-box method

Headlamps, mirrors, radiators, sensors and anything with a connector are packed exactly like a fragile marketplace item, and our fragile items guide has the general method. The parts-specific points:

Headlamp and tail lamp assemblies. Tape the mounting tabs and the connector with a strip of PE foam, because the tabs are what snap. Wrap the lens in kraft then bubble until the press test passes, put the lamp in a snug inner box or a cell of folded layer pad, and float it in an outer carton about 5 cm bigger on every side. The once-used Yellow at 460 x 330 x 310 mm or TX at 450 x 380 x 380 mm takes most single lamps. A pair ships as two parcels or in one carton with a full-height layer-pad divider.
Radiators, intercoolers and condensers. The fins bend if anything touches them and the plastic end tanks crack at the corners. Face the core with a layer pad on both sides, cap the inlet and outlet stubs with folded foam and tape, pad every corner, and box it flat in a carton it nearly fills with filling at the edges: the once-used APT at 590 x 390 x 360 mm, PDC at 590 x 380 x 380 mm or the new NLN at 590 x 390 x 390 mm.
Side mirrors, sensors, ECUs, meters and switches. Connector pins capped with a fold of foam, the item wrapped and double boxed, with a mini carton or a small once-used carton as the inner box and the new A4 at 310 x 220 x 220 mm, once-used Bary at 300 x 200 x 250 mm or Ain1000 at 320 x 220 x 280 mm as the outer. An electronic module follows the anti-static and photo-evidence habits in our electronics guide.
Glass. A windscreen or a rear quarter glass is a lorry item, flat on a layer pad with the edges padded. A small lamp lens or a mirror glass goes between two layer pads cut larger, taped board to board, into a flat carton such as the once-used Royal at 400 x 300 x 125 mm, nothing on top, marked fragile.

Step 4: rims, tyres and the long awkward parts

Rims. The painted or machined face is the product, and the rim is a 10 kg weight that will be dropped on its edge. Cut two discs of double-wall layer pad slightly larger than the rim, tape one over the face and one over the back with the tape passing through the centre bore so no tape touches the face, pad the lip all round with bubble or foam, then either box it or wrap it tightly in stretch film. A bare 15 to 17 inch rim fits the once-used Golden at 510 x 510 x 510 mm; an 18 inch rim is marginal and goes in the once-used ALP42 at 600 x 490 x 460 mm. A rim with the tyre fitted is about 630 to 700 mm across and needs the once-used Sigma at 780 x 460 x 710 mm or the new BW800 at 800 x 400 x 800 mm, and is checked against the courier’s dimension band before booking. A set of four is four parcels. A tyre on its own without a rim is light, needs no box, and ships stretch-wrapped with the label on a patch of tape, which most couriers accept.

Bumpers, lips, skirts and fairings. A full bumper is 1.5 to 1.8 metres long, over most parcel dimension bands even though it weighs almost nothing, and its volumetric weight is high because of its shape; our volumetric weight guide has the arithmetic. Remove the fog lamp trims, brackets and clips and bag them separately, pad the corners and the mounting tabs with foam, sleeve the whole bumper in layer pad with the sheets overlapped and taped, and wrap it in stretch film. Then it goes by cargo service or an on-demand van or lorry, the way our bulky items guide describes. A bumper lip, a side skirt, a motorcycle fairing panel or a half bumper can go by courier in a jumbo carton such as the once-used Golden-T at 540 x 440 x 630 mm if the packed sum of length, width and height is inside the band.

Exhausts, drive shafts, struts and handlebars. Long, thin and heavy at one end. Cap the open ends with folded foam and tape, wrap the length in bubble, then roll it in two or three layers of layer pad into a tube with the ends folded over and taped, and stretch-film the tube. Measure the tube; a short exhaust or a single strut is often inside a courier band, a full system is not. Our layer pad guide covers cutting and folding board into sleeves and tubes.

Doors, bonnets, boot lids and windscreens. Lorry, not courier, in every case we have seen. Edge protectors or folded layer pad on every edge, a layer pad on each face, stretch film over the lot, stood on edge against the lorry wall on a blanket, never flat on the floor.

Step 5: used parts, oil and the honest declaration

Used parts are the bulk of the Mudah and Facebook group trade, and they are the parcels couriers hold.

Drain everything. Sump, gearbox, turbo oil feed, shock absorber, fuel pump, injectors, power steering pump. Stand the part on kraft overnight, then wipe it.
Cap every opening with folded foam and tape, so the last of the oil cannot run out when the parcel is turned over in a hub.
Double-bag in heavy polythene with a pad of absorbent kraft inside the first bag, each bag tied and taped. Soft PE foam or bubble goes outside the bags, never inside, where it would soak.
Box it as heavy and compact, double wall, immobilised, base reinforced.
Declare it as what it is, such as “used car alternator, drained”, with the weight and dimensions measured after packing. The booking platforms list vague declarations among the reasons a parcel is held, and a declared used part with no leak sails through.
Photograph before and after, the part on a plain background from every side with the part number in frame, the wrapped part, the sealed carton with the label. Our damaged parcel claim guide covers the evidence that wins a claim, and for a used part the before photo is also what ends the “it was already cracked” dispute.

Keep a bottle of engine oil, a tin of brake fluid or an aerosol out of the parcel entirely. Sell them for collection, or ship the part and let the buyer buy the fluid locally.

Which carton for which part

Sizes from the current range, listed length by width by height. The rule is a snug double-wall carton for heavy parts, a 5 cm filled margin for fragile ones, and a jumbo or a sleeve for the long ones. Once-used cartons are Grade A and start at RM1.10.

Part	Carton
Pair of brake discs, caliper, water pump, sprocket	Once-used Tyson 430 x 300 x 160 mm or Royal 400 x 300 x 125 mm (double wall), layer pad between
Alternator, starter, brake pads with discs	Once-used Vita 400 x 250 x 190 mm or PM1073 420 x 220 x 190 mm (double wall)
Cylinder head, small gearbox, turbo	Once-used Yellow 460 x 330 x 310 mm or TX 450 x 380 x 380 mm (double wall), base reinforced
Headlamp or tail lamp (double boxed)	Inner once-used Bary 300 x 200 x 250 mm or Ain1000 320 x 220 x 280 mm; outer Yellow or TX
Side mirror, sensor, ECU, meter	Inner new XS 170 x 115 x 150 mm; outer new A4 310 x 220 x 220 mm or once-used Bary
Radiator, intercooler, condenser	Once-used APT 590 x 390 x 360 mm, PDC 590 x 380 x 380 mm or new NLN 590 x 390 x 390 mm, faced both sides
Bare rim 15 to 17 inch	Once-used Golden 510 x 510 x 510 mm (double wall); 18 inch in ALP42 600 x 490 x 460 mm
Rim with tyre	Once-used Sigma 780 x 460 x 710 mm or new BW800 800 x 400 x 800 mm, dimension band checked first
Fairing panel, bumper lip, half bumper	Once-used Golden-T 540 x 440 x 630 mm or new T760 760 x 760 x 760 mm if inside the band; else lorry
Full bumper, door, bonnet, windscreen, exhaust system	Layer pad sleeve and stretch film, cargo or lorry

Two notes. A heavy part in a once-used carton that has already been through one journey is fine, because the board is Grade A and the method does not rely on the carton absorbing a drop; it relies on the part not moving. And the dimension band is checked on the packed parcel on the day you book, because the couriers change their limits and a rim with a tyre sits right at the edge of most of them.

Seven mistakes behind most parts claims

A brake disc loose in a big box. It slides, it cuts the corner, and it arrives on the belt with the box in two pieces.
Single wall under a cylinder head. The base sags and the corners split in the first cage.
A battery in a carton with “accessories” on the label. It is refused at the counter, or held and destroyed at the hub, and the sender is charged.
A used turbo with the oil feed open. The leak is on every parcel below it, and the courier bills the clean-up.
A headlamp wrapped but not boxed inside the box. The tab touching the wall snaps on the first drop, and the claim is rejected because the carton is intact.
Four rims taped together as one parcel. Over the weight band, over the dimension band, and the faces grind each other on the way.
A bumper booked as a parcel. It is refused, re-rated as bulky, or arrives with both ends crushed. Measure first and send it by lorry.

Checklist before a parts parcel leaves

Part sorted: heavy and compact, fragile, long and awkward, or oily and used
Nothing prohibited inside: no battery, no oil, fluid or aerosol
Used part drained overnight, wiped, openings capped, double-bagged with an absorbent pad
Threads, seal faces, connectors and tabs capped with foam or tape; loose hardware in a taped bag
Heavy part in a snug double-wall carton, layer pad floor and lid, immobilised, shake test passed, base reinforced
Fragile part double boxed with 5 cm of filling, lens or core faced with layer pad, upright marked
Rim faced with layer pad discs taped through the bore; one rim per parcel
Long part sleeved in layer pad and stretch film; packed sum of length, width and height checked against the band; lorry if over
Weighed after packing; split over about 20 kg; courier band checked on the day
H-seal with 48 mm tape, fragile tape where it applies, label on the flat face, declared specifically, before-and-after photos kept

FAQ

Can I send a car or motorcycle battery by courier in Malaysia? Not through the standard parcel networks. The prohibited list published by Shopee’s own courier names car batteries, motorcycle batteries and any lithium-ion batteries in its flammable and dangerous goods group, and the other couriers’ lists and the booking platforms treat stand-alone batteries the same way. A lead-acid battery is also over most per-piece weight bands once it is boxed. Sell batteries for collection, deliver them yourself, or use a specialist hazardous goods or cargo service that accepts them and will tell you how to pack them.

How do I ship a used engine part that still has oil on it? Drain it, let it drip overnight, wipe it, then bag it twice in heavy plastic with a pad of absorbent paper inside the first bag, tape every opening such as a sump plug hole or a hose stub, and only then wrap and box it. Describe it honestly on the booking as a used, drained engine part. A parcel that leaks in a hub stains everything around it, and the booking platforms list leaking parcels among the ones couriers hold, dispose of or charge the sender for. A bottle of engine oil, brake fluid or coolant is a flammable or restricted liquid on most lists and is a separate problem from the part.

What is the best way to pack a sport rim for courier? Treat the face as the product and the rim as a 10 kg weight that will be dropped. Cut two discs of double-wall layer pad a little larger than the rim, tape one to the face and one to the back with the tape running through the centre bore so nothing touches the painted face, wrap the rim in bubble wrap or stretch film, and box it in a carton it nearly fills with filling round the barrel. A 15 to 17 inch rim without a tyre fits the once-used Golden at 510 x 510 x 510 mm; with a tyre fitted it needs the once-used Sigma at 780 x 460 x 710 mm or the new BW800 at 800 x 400 x 800 mm and should be checked against the courier’s dimension limit first. A set of four is four parcels, never one.

Can a bumper go by courier, or does it need a lorry? A full car bumper is usually 1.5 to 1.8 metres long, which puts it over the dimension limit of most standard parcel services even though it is light, and its volumetric weight is high because of the shape. Most of the time it goes by cargo service or an on-demand van or lorry, wrapped in layer pad and stretch film with the ends and the corners padded. A small or cut bumper, a motorcycle fairing panel or a bumper lip can go by courier in a jumbo carton if the sum of length, width and height is inside the courier’s band. Check the band on the day you book, because it changes.

Which carton should I use for brake discs, a headlamp or a radiator? For a pair of brake discs, a caliper, an alternator or a water pump, which are heavy and compact, a small double-wall carton they nearly fill, such as the once-used Tyson at 430 x 300 x 160 mm, Vita at 400 x 250 x 190 mm or PM1073 at 420 x 220 x 190 mm, with a layer pad between the discs and filling so nothing moves. For a headlamp or tail lamp assembly, which is fragile and awkward, the once-used Yellow at 460 x 330 x 310 mm or TX at 450 x 380 x 380 mm with the lens wrapped and 5 cm of filling round it. For a radiator, an intercooler or a condenser, which is a thin fragile core with hard corners, the once-used APT at 590 x 390 x 360 mm or PDC at 590 x 380 x 380 mm, or the new NLN at 590 x 390 x 390 mm, with the core faced with layer pad on both sides and the stubs capped. Once-used Grade A cartons start at RM1.10.

Where to get it

Everything in the method is on the shop, with current prices on the product pages: once-used Grade A cartons from RM1.10 in the double-wall small sizes for heavy parts and the jumbo sizes for rims and fairings, new cartons including the NLN, T760 and BW800, double-wall layer pad for facing, dividing and sleeving, bubble wrap and PE foam for finishes and connectors, stretch film for rims and long parts, and 48 mm tape, fragile tape and thermal labels.

Selling parts on Mudah, Carousell, Shopee or a parts group and not sure whether your usual orders need the Tyson, the Golden or a lorry? WhatsApp +60 16-891 6381 or contact us with the parts you ship most and we will suggest the cartons and the board that cover them. We are open Monday to Friday 8.30am–5pm and Saturday 8.30am–1pm, and closed on Sundays and public holidays.