Bear in mind the Yamaha OTR price in 2008 was �4899, they've obviously had the stock sitting there, and are trying to get a quick sale by pricing it cheaper than the ricockulous price it currently is.
Regarding the crankcase breather change, I don't know of one that wasn't done under warranty, so there shouldn't be a cost there.

Anything around �5k sounds good to me.

Yes, be sure to get the updates done by the dealer.

Going to take a different look at this ie the BMW price. �4k for a 60k mile BMW, I know they are expensive, VAT is going up etc etc but i think although you may not be getting a full out cracker deal on a new Yamaha, the BMW i think would take a fair while to sell for that on a private market. So really in a round about way i dont think your getting such a bad deal.

I've listened to all your very good advice and have contacted the dealer to see if thier offer still stands.
If it does there will be a new, happy Tenere owner on this fine site very soon!!

Sounds a fair deal to me........I bet you will be posting the outcome in a postive manner soon!!

Hesitation on my part decided the outcome of this one I'm afraid.
The dealer's had a cash offer on the bike so isn't interested in a part-ex so it's back to finding a sympathetic buyer for the GS.
I do have someone interested but they can't stump up the money just yet so I guess I'll wait for that to happen.
There's plenty of good, run in, used ones with a few extras on them around so "all good things come to those who wait" as they say.

Speaking as a dealer (cars).....wait for the next bus,,,,,,,! They do arrive! Just be patient, and you will know the market better for it, so when the right bike comes along, at the right deal for you, do it!

You'd think, but not when the RRP of a new one is over �1500 more... x

The 2008 retail price of the bike was �4899, and if the dealer has had it in stock since then, then he is making a fair margin on it. If he bought it in in 2009 as 'old stock' for Yamaha after the price went up, he doesn't have much room to move as they were �5299 by then...

To be honest, if I was the dealer, and had sat on �5K worth of credit for nearly 30 months, I'd want to be making a few hundred extra quid on it too... but as others have said, a brand new Tenere for anything close to �5K these days is a steal, so go for it!

btw. I bought a brand new '08 in the summer of '08 and well, I'll let you search out the threads... suffice to say it has been excellent for over 33,000 miles now - across the USA (twice) and from Paris to Dakar...

Jx

ps. just read on and see you've missed out on that particular bike, but still, if you can find a new one for around �5K, it's a great bike for the money... and as others have said, there is no discernible difference in model years...

I get the impression some of these 08 bikes haven't been in the dealers all that time. Maybe they are part of a central inventory that's been dribbled out. Anyway my friend bought a new bike for �4900 a few months back.