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Random question as I can't find a definitive answer in Virgins guidelines. In the USA at the moment. I've bought a bottle of car shampoo (usually very expensive back home, 1/4 of the price here) but just wondering if I'll have any issues with it in checked in luggage on the way home?
Also, thinking about stocking up on some tins of Cinnabon dough (I've become addicted). They're the sort of tins that pop open when you peel the label off. Anyone think these will explode under the change of air pressure in the luggage hold on the plane?
tigerbaybluebird
17-05-15, 15:51
Random question as I can't find a definitive answer in Virgins guidelines. In the USA at the moment. I've bought a bottle of car shampoo (usually very expensive back home, 1/4 of the price here) but just wondering if I'll have any issues with it in checked in luggage on the way home?You should be fine they sell Pringles on planes so I don't see any problems
Taunton Blue Genie
17-05-15, 15:54
Random question as I can't find a definitive answer in Virgins guidelines. In the USA at the moment. I've bought a bottle of car shampoo (usually very expensive back home, 1/4 of the price here) but just wondering if I'll have any issues with it in checked in luggage on the way home?
Also, thinking about stocking up on some tins of Cinnabon dough (I've become addicted). They're the sort of tins that pop open when you peel the label off. Anyone think these will explode under the change of air pressure in the luggage hold on the plane?But isn't there a pressure difference between the cabin and the luggage bays?
Should have no problems in check in luggage as long as you have if fitted the universal lock, you know the combo with a hole in the bottom for a customs key to open. As for the dough, I think they would open your case and dispose of it, you may not get your case as they could take it away and do a controlled explosion on it, dough would look to much like semtex http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gif
Yes the cabin is pressurised the cargo hold is not http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gif
I've got visions of the dough exploding and A pillsbury doughboy walking up the aisle 😃 I usually bring food items and cans back from the states and never had a problem having said that my sons case had a load of Harley stuff and it was opened
Random question as I can't find a definitive answer in Virgins guidelines. In the USA at the moment. I've bought a bottle of car shampoo (usually very expensive back home, 1/4 of the price here) but just wondering if I'll have any issues with it in checked in luggage on the way home?
Also, thinking about stocking up on some tins of Cinnabon dough (I've become addicted). They're the sort of tins that pop open when you peel the label off. Anyone think these will explode under the change of air pressure in the luggage hold on the plane?
You should be fine they sell Pringles on planes so I don't see any problems No, that would kind of mess the plane up.
Random question as I can't find a definitive answer in Virgins guidelines. In the USA at the moment. I've bought a bottle of car shampoo (usually very expensive back home, 1/4 of the price here) but just wondering if I'll have any issues with it in checked in luggage on the way home?
Also, thinking about stocking up on some tins of Cinnabon dough (I've become addicted). They're the sort of tins that pop open when you peel the label off. Anyone think these will explode under the change of air pressure in the luggage hold on the plane?
You should be fine they sell Pringles on planes so I don't see any problems
But isn't there a pressure difference between the cabin and the luggage bays?You silly ferker http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif
Sorry guys, forgot to reply as I've not had much chance to check online! Anyway, flying home Tuesday. So we think the car shampoo will be fine but th tons of dough maybe not?
I've also bought 3 cans of aerosol spray paint that isn't easily available in the UK (plastidip for cars for anyone interested). Anyway, will these be a problem? Can always return them if so!
tigerbaybluebird
25-05-15, 09:04
Sorry guys, forgot to reply as I've not had much chance to check online! Anyway, flying home Tuesday. So we think the car shampoo will be fine but th tons of dough maybe not?http://www.plastidip.co.uk
ian gibson
25-05-15, 10:20
Sorry guys, forgot to reply as I've not had much chance to check online! Anyway, flying home Tuesday. So we think the car shampoo will be fine but th tons of dough maybe not? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plastidip-Plastic-Rubber-Paint-400ml /dp/B0006SU3QW (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plastidip-Plastic-Rubber-Paint-400ml/dp/B0006SU3QW)
Yes the cabin is pressurised the cargo hold is not http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gif so how do pets survive in cargo holds? IK think there is some pressure just not full 1G.
Sorry guys, forgot to reply as I've not had much chance to check online! Anyway, flying home Tuesday. So we think the car shampoo will be fine but th tons of dough maybe not?
I've also bought 3 cans of aerosol spray paint that isn't easily available in the UK (plastidip for cars for anyone interested). Anyway, will these be a problem? Can always return them if so!I know that you can buy it in the UK, in fact I've bought it myself before but it's like £3.50 a can here rather than £17 and I need a few cans for what I'm doing.
ian gibson
25-05-15, 15:18
Sorry guys, forgot to reply as I've not had much chance to check online! Anyway, flying home Tuesday. So we think the car shampoo will be fine but th tons of dough maybe not?
I've also bought 3 cans of aerosol spray paint that isn't easily available in the UK (plastidip for cars for anyone interested). Anyway, will these be a problem? Can always return them if so!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plastidip-Plastic-Rubber-Paint-400ml /dp/B0006SU3QW (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plastidip-Plastic-Rubber-Paint-400ml/dp/B0006SU3QW) http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gif
Mabinogion
25-05-15, 15:21
Random question as I can't find a definitive answer in Virgins guidelines. In the USA at the moment. I've bought a bottle of car shampoo (usually very expensive back home, 1/4 of the price here) but just wondering if I'll have any issues with it in checked in luggage on the way home?
Also, thinking about stocking up on some tins of Cinnabon dough (I've become addicted). They're the sort of tins that pop open when you peel the label off. Anyone think these will explode under the change of air pressure in the luggage hold on the plane?Except that dough expands under certain conditions and the case has a built in mechanical weakness that a Pringles tin does not. I wouldn't recommend taking them. I doubt that he'll get away with aerosols either. The shampoo should be okay though.
Mabinogion
25-05-15, 15:54
Yes the cabin is pressurised the cargo hold is not http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gif The cabin and cargo hold are pressurised.
Mabinogion
26-05-15, 19:27
I wonder how he got on
I wonder how he got onHowever I did get away with the 1 gallon of car shampoo, polish and tin of solid wax. Cost about £17 for 3 items that back here would cost about £50!
Taunton Blue Genie
03-06-15, 11:09
I wonder how he got on
Only now remembered to update those of you interested!And who said that this message board wasn't exciting? http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif
Rocco Siffredi
03-06-15, 11:19
I tend to come back with After Shave, Straw Donkeys, Sombreros and Batida de Coco, each to their own I spose
Surrealist thread of the month http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif
Top Tip. When going through customs, if they ask if you have anything to declare, don't say "Aerosols"
Harry Monk
03-06-15, 12:03
I always lie when I go through check in. "Did you pack this yourself sir?" "Yes". Blatant lie, because my Mrs always does the packing. I wonder what would happen if I said that?
Taunton Blue Genie
03-06-15, 12:12
I can never understand how they won't allow you on board with tweezers lest you attack a member of staff in mid-flight. However, they will let you have a glass bottle of vodka that you can smash and hold to someone's throat.
lincoln blue
03-06-15, 12:46
I can never understand how they won't allow you on board with tweezers lest you attack a member of staff in mid-flight. However, they will let you have a glass bottle of vodka that you can smash and hold to someone's throat. The screw cap and screw cup each weigh more than a dozen coke cans. Some jobsworths are happy to have produced this nonsensical rule no doubt.
I wonder how he got on
Only now remembered to update those of you interested!
In the end I didn't risk bringing the spray cans of Plasti Dip home as a woman at Virgin told me she thinks it would be removed as it's paint. Looking back though I think I probably could have got away with it because aerosols are allowed and nowhere on the tins of Plasti-Dip did it say paint.I thought it could do with some livening up http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/Dsmile.gif
Mabinogion
03-06-15, 16:09
I wonder how he got on
Only now remembered to update those of you interested!http://allrecipes.com/recipe/clone-of-a-cinnabon/
light up the darkness
04-06-15, 08:54
I can never understand how they won't allow you on board with tweezers lest you attack a member of staff in mid-flight. However, they will let you have a glass bottle of vodka that you can smash and hold to someone's throat. I once came through the baggage check with a quite a large knife that for reason didn't show up on the scan and in transit through Amsterdam on the way back to Cardiff the whole lights and bells things went off
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