<p class="title">Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it is asking customers of 52,686 new Swift and Baleno models to undertake a service campaign to inspect for a possible fault in brake vacuum hose.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New Swift and Baleno units manufactured between December 1, 2017 and March 16, 2018 will be covered in this campaign, MSI said in communication to customers on its website.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A total of 44,982 units of new Swift, which was launched in February this year, and 7,704 units of Baleno are covered under the service campaign.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brake vacuum hose is a rubber pipe that creates and releases vacuum while applying brake but it has no impact on braking and braking distance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">When contacted, a company official said the exercise did not amount to a recall as the issue did not relate to safety.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Service campaigns are undertaken globally by automobile companies to rectify faults that may potentially cause inconvenience to customers, the company said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Customers will be contacted by dealers for inspection and replacement of the faulty part, MSI added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The inspection and replacement will be done free of cost for the customer," the company said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Automobile manufacturers in India follow a voluntary recall policy adopted by industry body SIAM in July 2012 under which if a company is of the opinion that there is a manufacturing defect that compromises safety of vehicles, it will voluntarily rectify the problem free of cost to the customer. </p>
<p class="title">Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it is asking customers of 52,686 new Swift and Baleno models to undertake a service campaign to inspect for a possible fault in brake vacuum hose.</p>.<p class="bodytext">New Swift and Baleno units manufactured between December 1, 2017 and March 16, 2018 will be covered in this campaign, MSI said in communication to customers on its website.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A total of 44,982 units of new Swift, which was launched in February this year, and 7,704 units of Baleno are covered under the service campaign.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brake vacuum hose is a rubber pipe that creates and releases vacuum while applying brake but it has no impact on braking and braking distance.</p>.<p class="bodytext">When contacted, a company official said the exercise did not amount to a recall as the issue did not relate to safety.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Service campaigns are undertaken globally by automobile companies to rectify faults that may potentially cause inconvenience to customers, the company said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Customers will be contacted by dealers for inspection and replacement of the faulty part, MSI added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The inspection and replacement will be done free of cost for the customer," the company said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Automobile manufacturers in India follow a voluntary recall policy adopted by industry body SIAM in July 2012 under which if a company is of the opinion that there is a manufacturing defect that compromises safety of vehicles, it will voluntarily rectify the problem free of cost to the customer. </p>