60000km review on the new suzuki swift

Mitsu power · Last edited by Mitsu power on Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:58 pm; edited 1 time in total

Have the car for almost 2 years now

Stuff changed: engine mount ( I feel it was defective)
AC blower fan ( it picked up an annoying ticking sound)
Battery
Brake light bulb

faults: constant alignment 5 times already
Hand brakes need adjusting
High tire wear on my 3 set of tires

So i have the car for almost 2 years now I do a lot of driving on the EWC, just say I will do a little review on the car for interested parties as I did on at my 40000 k mark. Overall the car is good AC works good ,radio works , central looking , alarm etc. The tire wear is high I’m on my 3 set. I went for a high tread wear so they can at least last me more that 6 months, going on 8 month with this set, but they will need to be changed in a month or 2 . The steering wheel went slack, the bolts needed tightening. I didn’t like the grade of oil that the firm was using 15w-50 shell syn. blend so i went to a 5w-40 full syn Kendal. The engine runs much quieter and smoother and heats up much more quickly, a must if you buy one is to change the grade of oil. Still pull the like the first day i bought it and better. The manual is the better car in term of fun factor; it’s not uncomfortable when driving for long e.g. traffic... I some times have to make it uncomfortable so that i don’t fall asleep at the wheel. its a bit thirsty on the gas i average 28mpg on the indicator ... will get 310 km to a 33 liters tank , takes about $100 to full got 450 a couple times but that was straight econ driving ( not passing 100) , I drive a bit hard . Overall I give it a thumb up. A weird thing it did when the battery was going bad I notice that the idle speed increased with out ac 900 instead of 600 with ac 1100 instead of 900 ... the brakes really work when the car is full with 5 people take a bit longer to stop ...
just to let you know its very stable at high speeds and corners , the suspension is stiff ( if you got a bad back its a no )
Any questions I will answer.

equipped2ripp · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject:

shouldn't this be in the SUZUKI forum? Idea

mods, please move accordingly.

ilovebeti · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject:

good review

see above tho^^

katastrophic · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:51 am Post subject:

nice review.. but it really in de wrong forum

Death-Row · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:51 am Post subject:

nice review man, think it would be quite useful if alot of other tuners do reviews on their cars. Very Happy

Dave · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

good stuff, will pass the info to someone wanting one

tr1ad · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:10 am Post subject:

good review / write up

Ignorant Ignis · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

nice review..... i have the same problem with alignment ...it goes off very easily in the ignis too

NOS4R2 · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:39 pm Post subject:

Bless write up
battery and high rev maybe due to alternator compensating for the battery behaving bad

Silvermike · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

what sort of gas do u use? premium or super?

You say bad tire wear.... is it the tires cut bcuz of the mis-alignment, or even with proper rotation etc, the overall tire wear is greater than normal?

out of curiosity, do you loose any oil? just bare in mind, the more wear an engine gets, the larger the piston-wall gap, the easier the oil slips past the rings. 5-40 is a very thin oil. I found good results with a castrol/ Quaker straight 40.

aidan · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

nice review.but i dont understand why d tires finishin fast thou.prob cuz e EWC hav real bad road.

conswaylos · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:13 am Post subject:

hard cornering and ripping out is d only way i see them tire cutting that quite, unless you use high gripping tires with low tread wear.

Silvermike · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:09 am Post subject:

^ factory threadwear is 140...

Mitsu power · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:53 pm Post subject:

Rx · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject:

good review Bro !

nareshseep · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

nice review, would be great to have more reviews like this .

NOS4R2 · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: