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Buyer deliveries of the Suzuki Jimny XL five-door have restarted, with sellers knowledgeable nationally at this time a stop-sale on the favored SUV has been lifted and each gross sales and deliveries can due to this fact resume.
Australian prospects who’ve positioned orders are actually capable of accumulate automobiles in inventory, with the stop-sale, which began in mid-July, lifted after the inexperienced gentle was given to Suzuki Australia from head workplace in Japan.
“Investigations have been concluded at SMC [Suzuki Motor Corporation] they usually really feel no considerations,” Suzuki Australia managing director Michael Pachota informed CarExpert.
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“They actually despatched us a stop-sell … and informed us that they have been investigating a difficulty, they usually’ve executed an investigation and confirmed with us on all factors that high quality, security and efficiency are all 100 per cent – as they need to be.”
When requested by CarExpert if SMC disclosed what prompted the problem, Mr Pachota stated it didn’t – however the automaker has executed this earlier than out of an abundance of warning.
“There’s no compromise on high quality with Suzuki – that is how they function,” he stated.
The stop-sale solely impacted the five-door Jimny XL, which is made in India, and didn’t embody the Japanese-made three-door mannequin.
It additionally prompted the provide by Suzuki Australia – and Suzuki Queensland, which distributes the model’s automobiles within the Sunshine State – to refund deposits and cancel orders for the automobile if prospects wished.
“We went out to sellers to offer prospects a degree of confidence,” Mr Pachota defined. “We stated in the event that they don’t wish to wait or they’ll’t wait, to refund deposits for individuals ready for vehicles.
“We hardly acquired a refund [request] – everybody stated ‘no, we’ll wait’ – particularly with aftermarket issues on order, they stated they’d reasonably wait”.
The Jimny is Suzuki’s hottest mannequin right here, with greater than twice as many gross sales as its next-best vendor, the Swift hatch, to this point this yr.
The influence of the stop-sale will turn out to be clear in August’s gross sales numbers, that are because of be launched publicly subsequent week.
The resumption of gross sales comes with loads of Jimnys obtainable for keen prospects.
“We’ve acquired inventory in the mean time, as a result of clearly inventory saved coming via [during the stop-sale] – we have been simply holding it,” Mr Pachota stated.
“We’re able to relaunch, so-to-speak, and ship inventory out to sellers instantly – that’s beginning actually from at this time.”
Whereas the three-door Jimny wasn’t impacted by the stop-sale, it has suffered from a provide interruption of its personal this yr.
Suzuki confirmed in February 2025 that the three-door Jimny, amongst different fashions in its lineup, didn’t meet newly launched Australian Design Guidelines (ADR) outlining particular technical necessities for autonomous emergency braking (AEB) techniques.
That meant Suzuki couldn’t import any extra automobiles past March 1, 2025, when ADR 98/00 got here into impact. The Jimny XL was unaffected because it had a compliant AEB system.
Suzuki nonetheless has inventory of automobiles imported and complied earlier than March 1, nonetheless an up to date, compliant mannequin gained’t launch till the primary quarter of 2026.
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