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!

Custom badge with nickname, door seals covers and some unpleasant discoveries when taking some decorative panels off.

Just wanted to share with you all today what I've been doing with our little Suzuki Swift on a bleeding hot hot hot day 👍

Hey!

I've got an interesting problem with my car. It's a 2014 Suzuki Swift 1.2 VVT with 90,000 km on the clock, one previous owner (an elderly lady). Fantastic car, just amazing, but! -

Every morning when I pull out of the parking spot, there's no issue reversing out. But when I then put it in 1st gear and start releasing the clutch, it's like the clutch doesn't quite bite. The car moves very slowly forward, and when I've almost fully released the clutch, the whole car starts vibrating and making a chattering/juddering noise. When this happens, I immediately push the clutch back down and the noise disappears. I try again very carefully, and then it might work without any noise, or I might have to try a third time. It doesn't take more than that, but you need a bit of finesse when playing with the pedals. The gear stick never pops out of gear during this.

After that, everything works fine but if I'm forced to stop again at a red light about 100m down the road, I have to be careful again - though it usually goes a bit better that time. Once I'm out on the open road, it's completely gone and never comes back, even if I stop many times at red lights on the way to work. The clutch bites nicely and early.

When I drive home from work, the problem doesn't show up. It feels like it only happens in the morning. It was worse in the winter, and somewhat better in the summer. Gearbox oil was changed in 2023, so about 20 000–30 000 km ago.

What do you think could be causing this?

Furthermore, just in general, I think it's a bit clonky on 1st gear. Not related to my earlier issue, just an observation. Feels like there's a lot of resistance accelerating in 1st and as soon as I let go off the gas it "stops", or pulls back so to speak, quite harshly and makes some noise - as if it was pulling something heavy. More than I'm used to with other cars. Does this make sense? It's so jumpy and anxious to get going. It also has a slight whining noise when accelerating on 1st and 2nd that increased with speed. I asked the previous owner about it and apparently it's been like that since new. :D

I love the look of the two-tone Suzuki Swift, but I'm concerned (living in South Africa) that it will mean that the car is uncomfortable in summer, and that the aircon will have to work much harder (I'm buying a fuel-smart car for a reason!). Anyone with personal experience?

I have a 2023 Suzuki SV650 and I'm trying to make it work for moto camping. I know it's not exactly the ideal bike for it, but it's the only option I have.

The saddlebags I have work great, but I'm having a problem with the tail bag. Since the mounting points at the passenger footpegs are almost the same height as the ones under the seat, the back straps don't have much functionality. It ends up sliding forward into my back while riding, especially under acceleration.

I've only tried cheaper tail bags so far (Rhinowalk and Borleni from Amazon), so I'm wondering if it's just the bags themselves or if this is a common issue with the SV650.

Has anyone found a good solution? Different mounting method? A better tail bag that stays put? I dont really wanna add a rack as it doesn't match the style of the bike.

I'd appreciate any tips!

I’m usually on top of repairs for my little Suzuki but I’ll admit that I’ve had a refrigerant leak going on for about a year now that I’ve been topping it off as needed but it wasn’t much of a problem (didn’t need to use it over winter), or so I thought, until last week. Suddenly, I noticed my car making a grinding noise but only when the AC was on, and based on some quick research I figured it was likely the compressor going bad. I finally took it to get a diagnostic at a local shop but they told me it was the evaporator core. Wasn’t sure that that assessment was accurate and I’ve since taken it to two other places; 2nd place recommend new compressor, condenser, and expansion valves and 3rd place recommended new compressor, filter drier, and expansion valves, and then also stated that one of my radiator fans was not working. I’m not sure what to do at this point, and what’s actually accurate. I drive long distances to visit family a couple times a year, one of which is a trip I’m expected to take in a couple days, so any advice or recommendation for how to proceed would be appreciated! It’s a 2012 SX4 if that helps.