Swifts get bought by people who mean to keep them, and most of them do. That makes the Dutch supply small and the service books unusually thick, and it makes a documented Swift an easy car for us to price.
Four generations are in circulation here: 2005 to 2010, 2010 to 2017, 2017 to 2024, and the current car. Suzuki never sold in the volume Volkswagen or Ford did in the Netherlands, so there are fewer Swifts on both sides of the market. Fewer to compete with when you sell. Fewer people out looking.
From 2017 the common engine is the 1.2 Dualjet petrol with the SHVS mild hybrid system: a small battery and a starter generator that take a little load off the engine. It is not a car you plug in. Earlier Swifts are plain petrol, usually a 1.3, and the Swift Sport sits above the lot of them.
We will not quote a number on this page, it would be stale within weeks. These are the things that genuinely shift what we offer.
SHVS puts a small lithium battery under the passenger seat and a belt driven starter generator on the engine. It is cheap to run and invisible when it works. If the car has thrown a hybrid or charging warning, or the stop start has given up entirely, that is the thing to tell us, because it is the one part of a Swift that is not simple.
On the 2005 and 2010 cars, the sills, the rear arches and the suspension mounting points are where Dutch road salt gets in. The paint can look respectable while the metal behind it is not. If the car has had an APK, the Dutch roadworthiness test, the report will have had something to say about this. Send us that report.
With fewer Swifts about, each one is judged more on its own record. A complete service book moves a Swift further than it would move a Polo, where there is always another Polo along in a minute. If the book has gone, say so and name the garage that looked after it, because a named garage beats nothing at all.
The Swift Sport is a separate car on the market, and so are the AllGrip and 4x4 four wheel drive versions. Both are worth flagging. So is a non original exhaust, a set of wheels, or a tow bracket, because the next owner may well want the standard parts back with it.
The register covers the facts. The rest of it is only in your head, so this is the part of the request worth a minute.
You do not have to. The plate gives us the engine and the type approval, and the mild hybrid cars are identifiable from that. If you want to check for yourself, the SHVS badge is usually on the tailgate.
No, it changes the number. Bubbling on an arch and rot at a suspension mount are a long way apart, and only photographs let us tell them apart. Take them in daylight and do not clean the car first.
No. One owner from new with a complete book is the best history a Swift can have, and a high reading alongside that record reads very differently from the same number with nothing to back it up. Bring the book to the handover.
Yes. The APK is the Dutch roadworthiness test and it does not need to be valid for us to buy the car. Tell us when it expired, or what the garage listed if it failed. A car without a valid APK may not be driven on public roads, so we collect it on a transporter.
Your number plate is all we need to start.
