Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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Hi All,
I am planning on starting to replace bushes - Panhard Rods, Radius Arms etc.
Is it OK to install Terrain Tamer bushes or must I fight with the dealers and get Nissan ones?
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Re: Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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I have now replaced most of my suspension bushes with Terrain Tamer.

It's going to be a hell of a long time before I can say if they last as long as Nissan because those (apart from the shock bushes) all lasted at least 2 decades, but I will point out one HUGE advantage of Terrain Tamer bushes:

To replace the bushes with Nissan OEM, you need a pretty big press. To replace TT, you just need a couple of spanners.

However, even with that, they need to last a reasonable amount of time, and I just don't know how long they last yet.
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Re: Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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Terrain taimer has pretty good service backup if it fail they replace it
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Re: Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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Thats good to know!
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Replaced the Panhard rod bushes over the weekend with Terrain Tamer ones.
Hardest part was getting the old bushes out, but used a bearing puller which worked fine in the end.
Wobbles are gone...
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Re: Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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Unkredible wrote:Replaced the Panhard rod bushes over the weekend with Terrain Tamer ones.
Hardest part was getting the old bushes out, but used a bearing puller which worked fine in the end.
Wobbles are gone...
Hi Bruce Image Do you mind sharing the link to the bush kit on the TT website or the part numbers of the bushes that you ordered? Regards Bruce

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Re: Bushes - Terrain Tamer or Nissan parts?

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Sure, The Part No is TSBK0028.
I ended up emailing Marinus directly as the website was a little confusing.
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