Urgent - 997 standard wheel bolts

[speedyun]

Help needed...

Porsche are unable to supply the standard length BLACK wheels bolts for my Sport Classic wheels - new addition to the Tequipment catalogue (997.1 C4S).
This means that I will have to either:

a) Be patient and not fit the wheels until the bolts arrive (Porsche cannot give a date).
b) Spend (and throw away) £130 on new standard length silver bolts (they have to be Genuine and I have to order new bolts, as my car wass fitted with 5mm spacers and so I only have the longer bolts).
c) eBay (no joy).
d) Scrounge a set of used standard bolts.

Porsche UK do not have any used standard wheel bolts lying around. Bolt caps are not an option.

Can anyone (living within a reasonable distance of Hatfield) help with option d?

Thank you!

ps - they can be returned as soon as the black bolts arrive

Edited by speedyun on Tuesday 27th September 17:02

[Tino]

Aren't the bolts just painted? as they are on my 996?
If so, get them in silver and £5 for a can of hammerite...

[speedyun]

This did occur to me, but I'd rather get the genuine part - probably be an awful lot better than my efforts with hammerite.

[Country Boy]

I'd be surprised if your efforts were worse from what I've seen of rusty wheel nuts on relatively new cars. I would have assumed that this was because of fitting new tyres but I've seen badly corroded nuts on cars on their first set of tyres.

[Maersk]

Buy silver and get them black passivated...............

Job done.

[speedyun]

Looks like I'm going to have to wait - £65 from porsch-apart too (incl. P&P).

Hasn't anyone out there got some nuts?

[Tino]

Country Boy said:

I'd be surprised if your efforts were worse from what I've seen of rusty wheel nuts on relatively new cars. I would have assumed that this was because of fitting new tyres but I've seen badly corroded nuts on cars on their first set of tyres.

More likely because of the corrosive wheel cleaners used at hand car wash places.
I recoated mine 2 years ago with normal silver car paint, and they have been fine since.

[speedyun]

Sorted! Thanks all who replied.