Must disagee here.
The tire/wheel price is fixed.
I would have paid the same if the lug bolts were in the deal or not.
Tires=x  Tires+bolts=x therefore bolts=0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Andrew Grebneff
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:12 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Found: alternative longer lugbolts
>
>
> >
> ><< Got you beat.
> > I got mine for free from the junkyard and didn't pocket them.
> > Just bought some wheels and wasn't charged for the bolts. >>
> >
> >Yer ears were burnin', eh?
> >
> >Mr. Dooley, that was but a marketing ploy by the junkyard. You didn't get
> >them for free. They just factor all the freebies into their
> bottom line. In
> >other words, it's part of the price of the wheels.
> >
> >I got a free car once. It's just I had to pay $30,000 for the tires.
> >
> >BenT
>
> Depends. If they set a price on the wheels alone without knowing he wanted
> the nuts, and then he told them, they might have said "you can have them".
>
> Andrew
>