will the shock absorbers ,control arms and tie rod of a year 2000 AMERICAN NISSAN SENTRA work on a year 2000 DUBAI NISSAN SUNNY?my cars ride and handling is very bad,no thankx to our roads,and i am not willing to buy spare parts in Nigeria that last for approximately 1 week before packing up,does any one have any suggestions cos i think NISSAN brands the Sunny as Sentra in America and i want to order online

If you can upload the pics of your car, i may be able to tell you. There are two possibilities here. If the nissan sentra doesnt work, the Infiniti (G20) might. The Infiniti G20 parts from the US, fits exactly on the Primera from Europe.

I made a mistake few years ago and bought Nissan Sentra parts home to use on Primera, i was wrong. I bought brake pads as a matter of fact.

The good thing is that Nissan parts dont vary drastically from continent to continent but you need to know what u are doing or which is which.

Upload your car pics for a visual reference, and if its possible take off the tire and snap the pics of the absorber too.

Good luck.

thanks promise, i have uploaded the pictures

Good pics. Just by looking at the pics, i will guess that the shocks will PROBABLY match the US Altima model (Like the attached picture). Shocks tend to be designed to match size/weight of car. I think your car is a little bigger than US Sentra.

We dont have this model here in the US. Hence the closest thing is that Altima -(Year 1993 to1997) [It might even match the later years]. But for the purpose of this discussion lets stick with 1993-1997.

To know if it will match, you have 2 options.

1. Take a mechanic with you. Go to Ladipo (or whereever you buy tokunbo stuff) and request for U.S Altima shocks. Ask the mechanic to do a visual reference/compare if its same thing. You dont leave the shop yet and definately u dont pay for it.
Yuo might need to jack up the car for that.

OR

2. Take another picture of the engine, boot (i want to see the exact model and engine size). also provide me with exact year, engine size - if you know and where the car is manufactured.
What i want to do is try to help you hunt down the exact Nissan Part number for that shock absorber. Part number doesnt change whereever you go. Either US/Dubai/Japan/Europe. The part number will give us a definitive answer. I can crosscheck with Nissan parts here in the US and see if theres a matching part.

You dont necessarily have to buy nissan part (you can get TOKICO, KYB MONROE etc). Same similar car with different engine size MAY sometimes have diff. shocks. Or a saloon and station wagon of same type car will have diff. shocks.

So decide which you wanna do. Good luck.

hello promise,thanks so much for the advice,here are the pictures

here is some more

Clean engine. Dont forget the back or model and manufactured country and stuff

looks like a 2.0 ltr engine

hi promise,it was manufactured in 2000,i think it is a 1.3l engine,here is the chasis no JN1EN61C71W000453

here is the back

@ shege315,

On a second note, you might probably be right about the Senta/Sunny suspension to be the same. Below is link to an article on these cars. Towards the end of first paragraph and beginning of 5th paragraph should answer ur question.

http://www.autozine.org/Graveyard/html/Nissan/Sunny_1998.html

But mind you, make sure that when you purchase the part, whereever that might be you actually request for same year cos body designs tend to change (dont know the frequency of Sentras) which MIGHT cause design of the parts to be different.

Good luck.

promise, thanks 4 all your help,your advice was very useful