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A bit of an update here.
We contacted the Suzuki dealer where the vehicle was purchased and yesterday 2 blokes from the service department turned up at our place in a current model automatic Jimny. They said nothing unusual had happened on the trip here with the Jimny they drove over.
Then one of them jumped in the wifes Jimny and the other bloke followed in the other car. About 20 minutes later they showed up again and said both vehicles were guilty of the problem we had reported.
They said they would be in contact with us.
Well, it is 3 months since the dealer the car was purchased from turned up in the other Jimny and confirmed there WAS A PROBLEM with both cars. I ran out of patience and went up to town to ask the Suzuki dealers head mechanic what advice Suzuki had given them after reporting the problem to Suzuki Australia. His answer was that Suzuki had advised them that basically, It is what it is or in other words, that is what the vehicle does.
The head mechanic agreed that it was a bad thing and that the ESP program probably should be able to be adjusted. But it can't be.
There are lots of very low mileage late model Jimnys for sale here and we are wondering if people are aware of this fault and just want to pass the problem on to someone else as Suzuki can't fix it. We are devastated to have bought a car that has the problem and there is no fix other than sell it to some unsuspecting person.
l've seen one mention of this issue from an owner in the USA, who found that his Jimny didn't like travelling right next to the centre median on the freeway.
None of the Jimny reviews have mentioned any issue.
Other than that, l've got heard of the issue being brought up, ours occasionally flashes the red collision warning at us, but nothing else happens.
Mine has done this a few times to me whilst driving around a roundabout near my home that is over an A road, there is a slight drop off where the bridge parts over the dual carriageway below join with the non bridge parts resulting in a jolt towards the left as you come off the bridge whilst still turning around the roundabout, the brakes give a buzz and seem to slew the car even more than it would had they not operated.
At first I thought it was a tyre catching on wheel arch liner or something but despite being 215/75's they can get nowhere near any bodywork and I can see no telltale wear marks anywhere so I put it down to this 'characteristic' of the car.
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