Originally posted by GASPowered:
Ford saves a lot of dough by using the four bolt pattern. Let's see, 1 bolt and lug nut per wheel X 4 wheels per car X cars sold... LOL, I have no clue why.
You'd probably be surprised at how close you are to the real answer. That's pretyt much it exactly. Ford makes THOUSANDS of cars each year. Plus another couple thousand replacement parts, plus when they cross platforms.
So you have THOUSANDS of cars, times 4 wheels. All those nickels and dimes add up to bigger bonuses for the brass. It's all standard business. Just like the anecdote about Delta removing one olive from their martini's served in first class. Supposedly saved them $44K in one year... you get the point...
