Burgman 400 - Purchase Input Needed  By  scooteritch (Read 2,386 times)

The 400's are pretty trouble free. Check the weep hole on the water pump, if it's going you'll see greenish trails...

If the bike isn't obviously damaged even at 31,000 miles the $2,500 could be a fair price depending on how well maintained it is. If the coolant tank isn't leaking and the maintenance has been kept up with they are a very solid bike. One mechaninc I have used says the 400cc engine in the Burgman is basically a Ninja 800 cut in half and a very bullet proof design.

[replyingto=rockynv]rockynv[/replyingto]Thanks everyone for your input.

I went and looked at the scooter. It seems that the owner turned it over to a dealer to handle the sale. It was really nice and well kept. Engine sounded nice and everything worked on the bike including all the digital instruments on the dash. It even had a Givi side saddle already mounted and the passenger backrest. I did talk the dealer to lower the price comparing other 2008 with much less mileage selling for about the same price. However, the dealer has several hundred dollars of prep fees that they have added on and with taxes and everything else, I'm looking at close to $3000 out the door. Still considering it. If the engine is as bullet proof as everyone says, I think it should be good for many miles.

Russian mechanic who was quite good but suffered in the language department.

Suzuki does trade engine blocks with other makers so he could be right about the Ninja connection. Some Suzukis are sent out with engines modified for them by Aprilia where Suzuki cast the blocks to Aprilia specs and then sent them out to Aprilia for machining and outfitting with the hard parts.

I'd ask for a few hundred off and see what happens.

An 07 Burgman 650 posted on CL here the other day from a dealer asking $3600 on a 25,000 miler. Not in my wheelhouse, but someday if a 2012 or newer 400 posts for cheap I might pick one up for the standard ABS over what I have now.

Yes you are correct that's where the vague statement "all displaced around 500 or less" came from. Still not the nice square bore and stroke you see on the Burgman (both 83 X 60) If anything it may be closest to 1/2 a 800 Suzuki Intruder as it has the squarish bore and stroke like most many V-twin metric cruisers... Sorry as a long time Suzuki fan I can't accept any possibility of Kawasaki lineage

Edited to add the appropriate level of vagueness

Rob

That's a ton of miles for a 400cc single cylinder. $3000 is too much. That's half the money for a new one and getting 25% of the bike. I'd say $2000 plus tax or keep looking...