Envy Imports

[Lost]

Hi Guys,

Has anyone had any experience with Envy Imports? (Northern Beaches) Good or Bad. Please reply.

I bought a car off Herman and have had no bad experiences and am planning to take it back for the 100k service. If anyone has any thoughts or experiences, I'd appreciate your feedback.

Cheers,

[Lepperfish]

I know there is still their workshop in brookvale. But as far as I know even imports turned into a standard car yard and now there is nothing there where their showroom was..

Ive seen Herman pull a gear box out of an R33 in 9 minutes lol..

[Lost]

They are selling from workshop premises on Wattle Road. Tons of R33's.

9 mins for a gearbox?? I must be super slow here. How's that possible?

[someonestolecc]

I know of a member who has taken their car there and it's come back with half a tank of petrol gone and one less cylinder.

From speaking to one of their sales guys when they used to sell cars near the roundabout having said "ahh yeah that's a great car it goes so fast when you wind that thing, even first thing after you turn it on" I've decided I won't be dealing with them. Off course their sales people might be different, I noticed they went through a marked change since my flatmate bought his r32 there.

So on the other hand my flatmate bought a r32 there 1.5years ago and all he has had to replace is the fuel pump and clutch, which they did for him for $800 for an organic and he hasn't had any dramas at all.

[Lost]

The sales guys at Sydney Car Sales (used to be at big roundabout near the Fisho's club Manly) were real dodgy. I asked if one of their R32's had been used for drifting? (rear panel had been bogged up and resprayed) . He first pretended not to know what drifting was and insisted it wasn't bog but file marks and then changed his mind and said definitely not been drifted. I then said to him, you should take that drifting sticker off then, it's a dead giveaway, what sticker? he asked... um... the one that says driff in japanese...

On the other hand, like you said, I haven't had any probs at all with my car and any advice and pricing I have asked for seems reliable and good. So yeah, a little confusing and mixed. Anyone else out there?

Also, who out there is on the northern beaches?

[someonestolecc]

If you're around the northern beaches try cromer exhaust centre. They're won't change your diff oil or give you a wheel alignment but everything else seems ok. Tell em the bloke with the white ceffy sent ya (doubt it'll help you tho hahaa)

[NXTIME]

There is a big difference between the Envy Imports workshop and their (old) car sales yard. As mentioned before, they still have cars for sale, and the workshop on Wattle Road is run by Herman. I haven't had any problems with them in the past at all and will be going back there very soon. Their website is www.envyimports.com.au

[Links]

Aparently the reason they had to move out from the Caryard in manly is due to their being issue's with the owners of the building. Someone than moved in there after them - however there was leaking water from the roof and the owners weren't prepared to fix it.

Personally i've heard a number of bad reports about them from ppl that I wouldn't buy from them, however that was a little while ago so who knows..

See how you go - hopefully they'll do a good job..

[d0p3y]

I've delt with them before, and most certainly cannot reccommend going there.

[DLuded]

are you guys sure theier workshop is still there?

i drive past there all the time and dont see any cars on the corner anymore

[NOZILR]

DLuded there workshop is in brookvale they dont have that yard no more

as for herman he has done some awsome work for my never ever had a problem

would recomend him 100% he may have had a bad rap years ago (because of his salesman) but him as a bloke he has done alot of stuff for me.....

very helpfull

[MR R32]

I bought my first Skyline there and have nothing but good things to say about them..

[NXTIME]

dop3y, what was your bad experience with Envy? Pm me if you like.

I have had my car there for a while and have nothing but positive things to say about them. And yes, the car sales yard was not helping the name, however, the car yard and workshop are two seperate operations. The workshop is still going strong,and they do still import many cars, but the car yard is now defunct. Herman is now selling some cars from his workshop and through other yards, I believe.

[satanic]

Also, who out there is on the northern beaches?

I'm on the Northern Beaches...

Have any of you considered North Shore Prestige? I got my 34 through them, know quite a few people who have got their cars through them...

Question would be, any good tuners on the Northern Beaches line near Brookvale or something?

[Lost]

Hey,

I'm on the Northern Beaches too near Cromer.

Not sure how good these places are but there's Procar (back of Cromer High School) and Tilly's (Brookvale) Have Dyno's. I think they are pretty good.

Someone else here would probably know more. Joviant Performance, Magic Performance?

[satanic]

Hey Lost... you got MSN?

[email protected] - add me please if you do?

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Yeah satanic, was looking at buying my car from there - they had a number of good ones, Ben @ north shore was a great help.. ended up getting mine privately - however would recommend them..

http://www.northshoreprestige.com.au

[T04GTR]

the envy imports workshop does everything. the old car yard was a thirdparty group. sydney car sales.

the deal was that they got a high commision on the cars sold on the lot. herman held the lease but scs used it.

but they wernt good at selling them and the building got condemed

the yard so to speek is out of the workshop by apointment. 15/26 wattle rd.

im the mechanic there. so im always very busy. we have 40+ cars in stock at the moment.

in terms of servicing we do quite alot but im always flatout complying cars so it gets abit dificult to do both at once. plus herman is rarely available to look after customers on the spot.

im working on the orgonisation of the shop and customer service side of things.

but afterall its just herman .myself and clair the secretaty.

if you need to book a car in ask for dave. so i can arange the work accordinly

if you get a quote for a job we will beat it 9 times out of 10.

ps. we have alot of good secondhand tyres that are clogging up the workshop and would sell them cheap for cash etc 16.s 17.s 18.s

cheeres

[B-Man]

Dave - have you guys got a dyno ?

[Blitz]

Dave: Good to see you on the forum mate

Nick