Why is it all pink??

 


After driving my Elgrand for the first time I was very surprised to see that all of the dashboard controls had pink lighting. Now I don't really mind the pink / purple colour, but it seemed odd to me that this was the default Nissan factory option.  I looked everywhere for a switch or a setting to select other colours but with no success.  I searched online for information about the car thinking that perhaps you could it with a colour of your choosing, but again had no luck.


Nissan Elgrand E52 Aircon Navi Pink ControlsNissan Elgrand E52 Steering Wheel Pink Controls


Anyway, fast forward a few months and I stumbled across some Yahoo Japan Auctions and now I have answers!

It seems that there are a number of people in Japan that offer their services to alter the Elgrand electronic control assemblies and switch out the LEDs for a different colour of your choosing.  They offer brilliant white, cool ice blue, pink, and even rainbow coloured for some units.  Obviously the Japanese owner of my car had taken each control part out and had them altered to the colour I now have in the car.

Nissan Elgrand E52 Controls ice blue rainbow

If you fancy trying this yourself then this guy shows some of the work involved, which looks very time consuming!


If you have some interesting colours as well in your E52 Elgrand then leave a comment!


























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