Buyer deliveries of the Suzuki Jimny XL five-door have restarted, with sellers knowledgeable nationally right now 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 in a position to accumulate automobiles in inventory, with the stop-sale, which began in mid-July, lifted after the inexperienced mild was given to Suzuki Australia from head workplace in Japan.
“Investigations have been concluded at SMC [Suzuki Motor Corporation] they usually really feel no issues,” Suzuki Australia managing director Michael Pachota advised CarExpert.
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“They actually despatched us a stop-sell … and advised us that they had been investigating a difficulty, they usually’ve carried out 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 carried out 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 embrace the Japanese-made three-door mannequin.
It additionally prompted the supply 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 bought a refund [request] – everybody stated ‘no, we’ll wait’ – particularly with aftermarket issues on order, they stated they’d fairly 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, up to now this 12 months.
The influence of the stop-sale will turn into clear in August’s gross sales numbers, that are attributable to be launched publicly subsequent week.
The resumption of gross sales comes with loads of Jimnys accessible for keen prospects.
“We’ve bought inventory for the time being, as a result of clearly inventory stored coming by means of [during the stop-sale] – we had 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 right now.”
Whereas the three-door Jimny wasn’t impacted by the stop-sale, it has suffered from a provide interruption of its personal this 12 months.
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) programs.
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, nevertheless an up to date, compliant mannequin received’t launch till the primary quarter of 2026.
