Maruti Swift Dzire, Maruti Swift and Maruti Ritz to be recalled

MSI, the manufacturer of diesel version of Maruti Swift Dzire,

Maruti Swift and Maruti Ritz which were manufactured between 13th November to 4th December last year will be recalled very soon. The reason for the recalling these cars is the are facing a technical in problem connecting rod bolt which is an part of the engine. Maruti Suzuki India will replace this component free of cost which is creating noise in the engine. Maruti Suzuki India will call back 4505 cars of Maruti Swift Dzire diesel, 6841 cars of Maruti Swift and 1811 cars of Maruti Ritz.

The new components has been dispatched to Maruti's dealer workshops and the workshop  will contact the owners of the car. The owners who purchased the cars between the particular time period can contact to direct nearest Maruti Suzuki Dealer workshop. Meanwhile the company is also giving this facility via its OEM website and a form has been displayed on it, customer need to fill this along with engine number (D13A followed by 7 digits) and other some require details.

Within one year this is Maruti Suzuki's third big recall. In the month of February last year the company recalled 100,000 units of its most popular hatchback Maruti A Star across domestic and overseas markets, while 6,000 units of its most selling hatchback car's Maruti Alto had recalled in the month of July, 2010 which was developed in the month of April last year. The car was facing ignition problem also. 

As per company officials, Maruti cars has global standards in the terms of quality and performance and the company is sure that car sales will not be effected due to the recall. During financial year 2011 the company produced over 1.27 million after got strong demand over 1 million cars  from domestic market. In in this financial year Maruti Suzuki reported 32 per cent growth with total sales of 1.13 million.

On the other hand the prices of Maruti Suzuki cars has been increased by Rs. 8000 and effected from April 4th this year.