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guinness
01-16-2006, 07:26 AM
I was looking at E34s for sale today and I found myself at a site that at first glance i thought to be this one, its called bimmerwerkz. The site looks like it was copied from here. Anybody know anything about this?

Rory535i
01-16-2006, 07:46 AM
Probably just uses similar forum software

BigKriss
01-16-2006, 07:50 AM
http://www.bimmerwerkz.com/

this website it nothing like bimmer.info. this website is poor, some would say (me included), "don't waste your time", comapared to bimmer.info, it's like night and day, apples and oranges, BMW's to fords, there is NO comparison :)

guinness
01-16-2006, 07:52 AM
I agree Kris, it just looked like somebody was trying to rip off this site.

winfred
01-16-2006, 09:06 AM
it's just a vb format forum that looks like this one, they show over 22k members and we are at just over 4k maybe we copy'd them :D

BigKriss
01-16-2006, 09:23 AM
it's just a vb format forum that looks like this one, they show over 22k members and we are at just over 4k maybe we copy'd them :D

Nope, they don't have Winfred Dixon either.

Qube
01-16-2006, 10:02 AM
Well got one thing nice out of there...

http://www.bimmerwerkz.com/forum/5-series-e12-e28-e34-e39-e60/bentley-service-manual-e34-42558.html

This defers me from buying for a month or so :)

hakwuzhere
01-16-2006, 10:51 AM
Heh, I think they get like 1 post per day in thier 5 series forum... they are on my list of sites that I hit daily, but I think the last time I read a thread there was a month ago.

Jay 535i
01-16-2006, 01:06 PM
The forum software used on this site is very popular and very cheap. LOTS of sites use it.

dacoyote
01-16-2006, 01:15 PM
The forum software used on this site is very popular and very cheap. LOTS of sites use it.

I though it was free?

Torque
01-16-2006, 02:05 PM
I though it was free?No, it's actually a software you have to buy.

'werkz has been around for a loooooooong while. They used to have different software, but switched to vB about the same time bimmer.info did.

Gayle
01-16-2006, 03:42 PM
It was interested to see that they had regional forums including one for California--but all the stuff on it was Bay area people and stuff.

dacoyote
01-16-2006, 03:44 PM
No, it's actually a software you have to buy.....

Maybe that why I ending up not going with it last time I looked....