Melbourne based E34 owners?

[pundit]

I was just wondering how many Melbourne based E34 owners we have here?
I saw a nice looking Grey E34 today in Knox (Eastern suburbs) with replica E39 M5 rims. There's quite a few E34's for sale recently, some from under $7000 AUD. Which is getting pretty cheap for over here. Maybe the soaring cost of fuel & maintenance is really beginning to bite for some E34 owners?

[stx133]

Hi Pundit, i am in Melbourne, Coburg. i drive to work in Dandenong / Warragul often so the fuel cost is starting to wear a bit thin. I can strongly reccomend a local Mechanic for service, he did his apprenteship for BMW and now Porche in the city sends 'problem' cars to him to fix. best yet are his rates, he replaced an engine mount fro me for free because he felt bad about missing it during a regular service. did it in 20 min while i waited and drank espresso coffee.
Other pricing is really good, 17,40,235 tyres seccond hand imports (still had the moulding nobs on them) fitted for less than 100 each, had 3 sets fitted before he was satisfied. minor service under $100
Metro Motors - Angelo 03 9350 6012, Gaffeny Street Coburg,
Tell him i (Jason, greeen M540)put you on to him and he will look after you

[m5maniac2001]

Do i count?

I used to live in Melbourne (caulfield) but moved to the US 5 years ago.

:p

[Aussie e34]

hey, great to see other e34 owners making a stand!
i live in the bayside area and drive a 540iLE (#16/70)
for those that dont know the model basically its a 6spd manual V8 wrapped in the e34's body. only 70 were produced for australia with only a few thousand in the world....awesom car.

[pundit]

hey, great to see other e34 owners making a stand!
i live in the bayside area and drive a 540iLE (#16/70)
for those that dont know the model basically its a 6spd manual V8 wrapped in the e34's body. only 70 were produced for australia with only a few thousand in the world....awesom car.
Hello to another E34 aficionado. How long have you had the 540iLE?
If you haven't already made contact you should definately go here...

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/BMW540iLE/

I'm sure David will be happy to include you on his Aussie 540iLE database. ;)

[Nick.Hay]

Im kinda in an outer suburb... Tho the E34 doesn't float so that kills visiting options!! :D

[Aussie e34]

hey nick,
you never got back to me and told me what you thought about those matts for your dads e34.
pundit, yeah i meet david ages ago when i was puting down a deposit on his iLE...that fell through when my car got stolen.....a few moths later and i picked up an absolute bargin of an iLE. so ive now had it for about 4mths and im in love.

check out eurocca.net lotsa aussie bmw owners and we could use a few more e34 owners...there's a cruise this sunday too! (21st aug)

[Nick.Hay]

Sorry,

Been a slack arse lately. Will have to chat again soon, catch up on the goss. When are you coming for a blast around some twisty Tassie roads?? he he he..

[stx133]

nice blue parkers, where did you pick them up?
How much.

[stx133]

was that for sale in Melb for about 28k looked at it but had just bougkt my ///M from Sydney so it was all too late

[Gayle]

Hey Aussies

What time is it there? I am in CA and it is 10:45 pm (daylight savings times so the time stamp is off an hour). I notice about this time of night most people in the US have called it a night. The east coast is 3 hours later so it is 1:45am on other coast. You guys seem to be getting warmed up about now. Is it morning afternoon evening there? It is still Thursday for me, and is Friday on the east coast. What day is it there?

[Paul in NZ]

california is about 18 hours behind Aussie east coasters......and 20 hours behind NZ so i just add four hours and call it yesterday......