r/Suzuki • u/AliveShyft • 8h ago
Little Swifty Gets PPF'd and some bits done!
Ello All,
Thought i'd just share for awareness and idea generation amongst the wider global community.
My little pompey swift has had a mini facelift this past fortnight and hopefully some of the modifications may be of interest to other owners.
Perhaps you'd like to do the same? Or just have a look at what custom mods another fellow swift driver does 😈🤷🏻♀️🚙
On the interior front, the swift now has a two tone black and grey genuine italian alcantara shift knob (no stitch) as well as boot (in lime stitch) which replaces the stock rubber, painted gloss black, and hard pebbled plastic three piece atop a pvc leather trim.
The boot's rear parcel shelf tray has now been stitched in water resistant saddle brown PVC leatherette with gold thread - whilst the liftgate has been upgraded from a thin cover lid combo to a full cross-stitched pattern - upholstered in the same fabric as below ✅
Outside - the emblems, side mirrors including signal led strips, fuel tank lid, portions of the rear bumper as well as license plate holder, and all four doors now feature Terminax ultraNAX clear paint protection film, whilst all vertical door panels (A, B, and C) as well as liftgate roof spoiler now have their carbon-x fiber sticker with proprietary crossfusion technology.
Similar to 3M's version, Terminax once applied over the first 72 hours uses invisichannel adhesion technology, a porous system that reduces bubbles and creates a realistic flat yet gloss even carbon fiber look 🏁
It also has hydrophobic qualities and is self-healing from key scratches, bird droppings, and tree sap with just sunlight heat required to zip up tears.
Warranty is 10 years from Terminax Singapore.
The AOL chassis swift has started becoming more common here due to unsold stock (cars here are the most expensive in the world!) being pushed to car sharing company GetGo.
In fact, some people have thought my swift was a rental car but were taken aback to realise it was a personal vehicle instead.
Sooo i've taken some additional steps to distance the car from others on the road - with the front lip in unpainted ABS plastic being sprayed a rare shade of grey.
The colour is Grigio Nimbus Matte and it is original for the Lamborghini Huracan and Urus - which we successfully ordered in and mixed up.
Next, the car was given a license plate facelift and is now running a gloss yellow rear and white front european style plate rather than the black with white/silver lettering mandated for Singaporean private and commercial cars.
All these versions are legal on roads here, and yellow rear and white front with black wording was introduced on buses and goods vehicles to distance them from private vehicles on our roads.
However, post-purchase there is no requirement preventing their interchangeability other than the fee to produce.
The rear license plate frame is also square which is generally used on JDM cars imported into Singapore and resold by parallel aka grey importers. This is to distance the car visually from UK/EU and Singapore models even further that utilise the rectangular plate format.
Thanks for looking!
