Nissan suspension parts held in the UAE

Few Nissans matter more to suspension work in the UAE than the Patrol, and the first question is always which Patrol. The Y61, built from 1997, rides on rigid axles front and rear. Nissan kept building it for the Middle East long after most other markets dropped it, and production only ended in 2024, so a Y61 needing parts today is nothing unusual.

The Y62 arrived in 2010 with a completely different layout. Nissan's launch material describes four-wheel independent suspension in place of the old rigid axles, redesigned from the bushes to the links. In practice a Y62 has control arms, ball joints and their bushes at every corner, where a Y61 has two axles held in place by locating arms and rods. Very little suspension hardware crosses between the two.

Some Y62 grades carry Hydraulic Body Motion Control, which Nissan shortens to HBMC. It puts hydraulic cylinders at the shock absorbers and links them across the car with pipes and two accumulators, so the body stays flatter in corners. Other grades, the Desert Edition among them, use conventional suspension instead. On a car with HBMC the shock absorbers belong to that hydraulic circuit, so an ordinary shock is not a swap, and the chassis number is how we find out which version you have.

The Y63, unveiled in Abu Dhabi in 2024, is a new generation again. Treat it as its own car for suspension parts and let the chassis number decide each one.

Most other Nissans on UAE roads are built like cars rather than trucks. The Altima is a clear example: Nissan's own specifications list an independent strut at the front and a multi-link rear. On a strut front, the shock absorber, the spring and the top mount sit in one tall assembly that also turns with the steering, so the top mount and its bearing wear like any other joint and creak when they go.

The Pathfinder changed character between generations. The R51, sold from 2004, is a body-on-frame four-wheel drive related to the Navara D40 pickup. The R52 that followed in 2012 moved to a unibody shared with the Altima, the Murano and the Infiniti QX60. The two carry one name and very different suspension, so a Pathfinder enquiry needs the generation, or better the chassis number, before anything else.

Smaller Nissans such as the Tiida and the Sunny spend their lives on speed bumps, broken service roads and tight parking manoeuvres. On the Tiida and its relatives our range covers the small parts that make most of the noise, from stabiliser links and their bushes to the short links that locate the front subframe, which come as separate left and right parts.

The models list higher up this page uses the part maker's catalogue names, which are written for many markets at once. Some will be familiar and some will not, and a few describe a car you already drive under another badge. The table below translates the ones that come up most often here.

A worn suspension part nearly always makes itself known before it fails, and the kind of noise narrows the list quickly. Use the table as a first guess, then let a garage confirm it with the car lifted and the wheels hanging free, where play in a joint or a split in a bush is easy to see. Replacing only the worn part costs far less than renewing a whole corner on suspicion.

If you are unsure, record a short video with the sound on while driving slowly over a speed bump, then turning the wheel from lock to lock in a car park. Send it with the chassis number and we will tell you which line on our shelf it most likely points to.

We keep both, and the comparison under this section sets the typical genuine Nissan price against the typical aftermarket one for each part type where we hold enough of both, as the shelf stood on the date shown. Read it part by part rather than as a whole: a plain rubber bush and a complete control arm are very different purchases, and the gap between genuine and aftermarket is not the same for each.

The genuine side of this shelf is deep on bushes, control arms and shock absorbers. It is thin on wheel bearings, anti-roll bar bushes and ball joints, where the range is almost all aftermarket. If you want the genuine Nissan part for one of those, ask, and we price it separately against your chassis number.

A sensible split: genuine shock absorbers and arms on a Patrol or Pathfinder that tows, carries a full family or spends weekends on sand, and good aftermarket rubber, links and tie rod ends on any Nissan. FEBEST, the brand behind much of our aftermarket range, builds its catalogue around rubber-to-metal parts and repair kits, and that is what lets a garage press a fresh bush into your existing arm. STELLOX, 555, KYB and TOKICO also appear on some lines, as the stock table shows.

Ask for both in the same message. We quote the exact genuine and aftermarket part for your car side by side, so the difference you see is the real one for your Nissan.

The chassis number, printed on the registration card (the mulkiya), is the one detail that settles a Nissan suspension part. The same badge covers several generations, two very different Patrols, two very different Pathfinders, and cars built for different markets. An Altima or a Pathfinder imported from the US can look identical to a GCC car and still differ in a part number, and whether a given Armada part also suits a GCC Patrol is a question for the part number, not the body shape. We check every line against the number before we quote.

Tell us the position too: front or rear, left or right, upper or lower. Some Nissan parts are handed, like the front subframe links on our shelf, while others fit either side. Shock absorbers belong in pairs across an axle so the car behaves the same on both sides, and a worn stabiliser link usually has a tired twin on the other side.

Anything that sets the angle of a wheel, such as a control arm, an arm bush, a tie rod or the front strut on a strut-front car, needs a wheel alignment once it is fitted. Without one, new parts in old settings scrub through tyres quickly, and a summer of hot tarmac speeds that up. We supply and deliver the parts; your garage fits them, and the shops listed further down this page are a place to start.