Toyota Landcruiser Sat Nav - Jap To Uk

tony_hetherington · July 14, 2003

Good friend of mine has a Toyota Lancruiser recently imported from Japan.

It has Japanese sat nav (all the menu's etc are in Japanese) and he wants it changing to UK/ European version. A couple of companies he has phoned have spoken of £1800 !!He'd be better of getting an Ipaq based system than simply CHANGING the current one at that price!!! He hasn't yet rung toyota, but unsure of how useful they'd be anyway.

My question is - does anyone know anything, have any ideas, or experienced this sort of thing before ?

Any help, comments, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all

Tony

NickE · July 14, 2003

As far as I am aware, all the interface screens (menus) are controlled via the software. What system is it? Have you tried putting a UK disc into it to see what comes up?

Nick

ricky_is200 · July 14, 2003

People have tried putting the UK disk into Altezza's but it didn't work.

tony_hetherington · July 14, 2003

No, we haven't tried putting a UK disk. To be honest, we don't even know where to get a UK disc !?

Any other suggestions welcome

Ta

Brettster · July 14, 2003

there's a good chance that the language is stored on a chip and can be switched to Eng / JAP with the flick of a dip switch or jumper

but having never seen one of these items im not certain

but worth a look if you have a jap system and can get a decent scan of the circuit board, may also be able to change it with a software setting in the secret options screen.

tony_hetherington · July 14, 2003

may also be able to change it with a software setting in the secret options screen.

Any ideas how to get there ?!

Brettster · July 14, 2003

there was some posts on the US forums showing the menu's etc and that was on the Lexus LS400 maybe same way for the land cruiser if its using the same system