English Stereo Replacement (Xanavi system)
As a new owner of the E52 one of the very first upgrades that is required is to update the audio system. As a Japanese only car the Elgrand has no settings to change the language so you are stuck with the Japanese speech and text, so unless you know the language it is a priority to resolve! There are range of options to choose from but they all have compromises, all range in price and all have a varied level of difficulty. I will cover some of the options you could go for in a future post, but for now this update is about the one I selected. There is a company in Lithuania who offer replacement car audio boxes for us Elgrand drivers which is a real Nissan solution, it is easy to fit and you wouldn't know that it wasn't fitted at the factory. It is a bit more expensive than some of the other options but I felt it was worth the extra money. In the E52, the car audio system is split into sections, so there is no easy single or double DIN solution. The screen in the dash is j