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Can I convert the screens to English?

oh god, my hero, i wish i could do that myself.... photos really appreciated Keith... cant wait to see it finished...
 
Jayboy said:
oh god, my hero, i wish i could do that myself.... photos really appreciated Keith... cant wait to see it finished...
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Stripping out buttons and fitting uk one is not a easy job
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Buttons stripped out of one control panel that I bought from the USA and fitted into the original Elgrand control panel as the fixing points were not the same and would not screw into place as I said this was not easy to do.
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This photo shows that the one closest to the camera has three fixing points along the top. The other one that I bought for the uk buttons has a fixing at both ends on the top. This one does not fix into the Elgrand S3 audio dash
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I bet that was a right pain in the rear end, i expect if you had taken it out prior to doing job you could have tried to match the part numbers?
 
Jayboy said:
I bet that was a right pain in the rear end, i expect if you had taken it out prior to doing job you could have tried to match the part numbers?
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The problem is that the part number for the control panel that for a S3 Elgrand only comes with Japanese buttons. The part I bought to get the all buttons that I needed the main body part is not the same shape. So that’s why I had to swap out the buttons.to strip both panels down and remove the buttons was a very tricky job as the buttons lock in place on tabs what I thought would take 10 min was 2 hours
 
Oh god, what a performance... i thought the kit came with the English buttons, the video indicates it does...
 
Jayboy said:
Oh god, what a performance... i thought the kit came with the English buttons, the video indicates it does...
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It normally does come with the buttons, but they could not get them at the time as they were on back order at Nissan, because I wanted the unit sending plus the buttons were a extra £150 and I thought that was a lot for bits of plastic.
 
£150 jesus, so what did the control panel cost you instead?
 
that beats the £150... I am beginning to see why there are not as many having it done... your one of the pioneers Keith.. like I said I have OCD on stuff like this, and as much as I love the Elgrand, this is the one element that drives me nuts about it...
 
Jayboy said:
that beats the £150... I am beginning to see why there are not as many having it done... your one of the pioneers Keith.. like I said I have OCD on stuff like this, and as much as I love the Elgrand, this is the one element that drives me nuts about it...
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Also the £150 come off the price of the unit so I was quite happy about sorting the buttons myself

Your like me then. It just has to be right
 
I’m watching this with great interest. It is one of the things I don’t like as well.
 
Honestly, it actually annoys me when folk disparage the view that we would want it correct...
Everyone is allowed an opinion and I 100% get how many can live with it with a few modifications or work around's..

Isnt that what most of us do anyway, hell ive shown above how I live with it, but I would much rather get it done and look like yours is going to look like Keith, the only and probably most significant factor to me is the cost of doing the job...
 
wow my finger was actually hovering over the button, then my wife slapped some sense into me!! lol
 
Oh and my post count is definitely not going up each post @Karl lol 95 for 4 posts in a row lol
 
Jayboy said:
wow my finger was actually hovering over the button, then my wife slapped some sense into me!! lol
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Is the cost that bad? If you need everything in English I think it's ok, you could spend £400 on a UK double din alone, and it still wouldn't give you half the functions this system does.
 
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