Nissan brake parts on UAE shelves

Pads are the core of this range, in genuine Nissan boxes and aftermarket brands, for front and rear axles. Around them sit discs, shoe kits for rear drums and drum-type parking brakes, and the small parts that keep a caliper working properly: seal and repair kits, slide pin bushes and clip sets.

Some lines are narrower. The brake hoses on this shelf are genuine Nissan only. Wheel cylinders and brake drums are held in small numbers, so if your Nissan has drums at the back we check the exact part rather than assume it is here. Complete calipers are not a deep range either; for a seized caliper we can often supply a rebuild kit from stock, or quote the complete unit on request.

Brake fluid is not part of this range. Your garage will have the grade your car needs, which is usually moulded into the reservoir cap.

A loaded Patrol is a great deal of mass to stop from motorway speed, and in a UAE summer its brakes begin that job already hot. Nissan's launch material for the Y62 describes four-piston opposed front calipers on larger 358 mm front discs. In a fixed caliper like that, pistons on both sides of the disc squeeze the pads in, and nothing slides. The slide pin kits in our range are therefore for sliding calipers, not for the front of a Y62, where the pad pins and clips do the locating instead.

Desert trips, towing and long descents such as the roads down from Jebel Jais or Jebel Hafeet push brake temperatures further still. The signs of brakes that have been overheated are a pedal that goes long or soft on a long hill, a hot, acrid smell, and blue tints or fine cracks on the disc face. A glazed pad looks shiny and grips poorly even after it has cooled.

When a Patrol's brakes have been through that, replace pads and discs together on the axle rather than bedding new pads onto a heat-marked disc. Ask the garage to check that every caliper piston moves freely at the same time, because a sticking piston is a frequent reason one wheel runs hotter than the other.

Brakes give plenty of warning, and most of it comes through the noise and the pedal. The table pairs the usual signs with the parts on our shelf they lead to. A garage should still look before you buy: measuring pad material and disc thickness takes a few minutes with a wheel off, and the minimum thickness is normally stamped on the disc itself.

Nissan numbers its pads in families, which helps when you are reading an old box. Many front pad sets in our range carry numbers starting 41060 or D1060, and rear sets D4060. The aftermarket lines in the part numbers table show the Nissan number they replace, so your old box can be matched to a line on the shelf. One aftermarket front pad set in this range is listed for cars as different as the Navara, the Serena and the third-generation Pathfinder, which is exactly why we go by numbers rather than by what a car looks like.

The comparison under this section sets the typical genuine Nissan price against the typical aftermarket one, on the date shown, for the brake part types where we hold enough of both. Pads are not in it, because the pad lines are counted together with their clips and fittings, yet pads are where the choice comes up most often, and the shelf is deep on both sides there. Ask for both pad prices for your car in one message.

A practical way to decide: on a heavy car that tows, crosses sand or does a lot of mountain driving, such as a Patrol or a Pathfinder, genuine Nissan pads and discs keep the friction behaviour the car was set up with. On a Sunny, Tiida or Altima that lives in city traffic, a good aftermarket pad made for its part number is a fair saving. Whichever you pick, fit the same pad on both sides of an axle and never mix brands left and right.

For caliper repair kits, slide pin bushes and clip sets the shelf is mostly aftermarket, much of it FEBEST, a brand whose catalogue is built around repair kits and rubber-to-metal parts rather than complete assemblies. Brake hoses run the other way: what we hold is genuine Nissan. If you want the genuine version of a part where our range is aftermarket, ask and we price it against your chassis number.

Model and year are not enough for brakes. Nissan's US specifications for the 2019 Altima list different rear disc sizes for different trims of the same car, and engine size changes the brake hardware on many cars. The Sunny is sold as the Versa in the Americas, and the Armada is the North American version of the Y62 Patrol from the 2017 model year, so a US import can carry different numbers from the GCC car it resembles.

The chassis number on the mulkiya resolves all of that. Send it with the axle and we check pads, discs and fittings against it before quoting. If your car has rear discs and a garage says it needs shoes, those are the parking brake shoes that sit inside the centre of the rear disc, and the chassis number tells us which kit.

Pads and discs are changed in axle sets, both sides together. New pads need bedding in with a series of moderate stops before any hard braking, and the garage will usually take care of it. We sell and deliver the parts; fitting and bleeding are your garage's job, and the workshops listed lower down this page are one place to start.