Nissan Elgrand E52 Lowdown

 After a few months of driving my Elgrand E52 the one thing that has bugged me whenever I am driving at night is the lack of real English AV control buttons.  I believe we all do the same in our Elgrands, buying the English vinyl stickers and applying them over the top of the Japanese text.  It doesn't look perfect but its very very cheap and now I can understand what button I need to press.  The downside is when driving at night the illumination of the buttons is now restricted by the sticker on top, making it impossible to read the text and making the button look like they have gibberish instead. Fortunately those clever people over at Xanavi can now produce an set of buttons with English text .  I have no idea how they do it, whether they are manufacturing them or using a 3D printer perhaps, but it is a brilliant solution. The end result is superb with fully lit buttons in English, the plastic is colour matched to the existing controls so they don't look odd...

  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. 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 co...