@ruki might be able to help

hes owns the below i believe

http://www.hybrids.co.nz/japanese-to-english-dash-conversions/

Are you talking about the Gen2 post 2016 models.

Drive EV (Taupo) have a full English stereo conversion available now for the pre 2016/carwings models. It's installed via a SD card or CD. A conversion for the Nissan connect models is coming.

https://drive-ev-ltd.myshopify.com/collections/test-collection/products/nissan-leaf-english-language-conversion-for-2011-2015-x-and-g-head-units

Thanks, but I am looking for the language conversion for the X & G Models of the later (post Dec 2015) ZE0 NissanConnect Head Units and the new ZE1 Leaf?

OEM Audio in Christchurch are doing conversions where you send them the current jap language headunit and they send you back an english converted one (tuner updated for NZ too), for a fee of course.

I'm not aware of any head unit conversion for the nissan connect units (yet). Unless of course you obtain a UK head unit, even then the GPS and maps are unlikely to work.

As far as sending in the pre Dec 2015 / carwings units for language update this is no longer necessary as the update an now be performed via a SD card or burning a CD. It's an in-place language update.

Martin_NZ:

 

As far as sending in the pre Dec 2015 / carwings units for language update this is no longer necessary as the update an now be performed via a SD card or burning a CD. It's an in-place language update.

 

That's great news - so to confirm, this is applicable to all the Gen 1 Leaf head units running Carwings?

Who performs these updates and what do they typically cost?

(It's more out of curiosity, as we had our '13 Leaf's head unit replaced with a US-sourced one; it would be far preferable to retain the original, because at least all buttons then still map correctly. Plus I assume it's a lot cheaper?!)

Yes that's correct the carwings / gen 1 type head units can be updated in place without having to be removed and sent away.

There are a few people doing this upgrade now. It's as far as I know $495 + GST (yes expensive but there is a lot development work gone into it)

I posted a link further up the thread to Drive EV who can provide you with this update. There are others all at a similar price. I believe they are all re-sellers of the same software.

It's a software only update and as such can be performed via an SD card.

Caveat: I have not done this update myself as I can't justify $550 bucks for something I don't really need. Google translate on my phone does an average job at helping with the unit. But by all accounts and the screenshots I've seen it works great. No loss of functionality (ie charge and climate timers) 

AND the GPS / Maps will work in New Zealand !!!

Until the last sentence I was thinking that was a bit of a rip for $570, given the 'new' head unit cost us $700, but then reading this includes working GPS (with NZ map, I assume?) then that's clearly a better value proposition; would have gone with that option, for sure.

Our Leaf is my wife's daily drive, and an English head unit was worth the cost for her; adding working GPS would have been the icing on the cake.

Yes it is expensive. But it does include NZ maps on the navigation. I understand they are building a database of local chargers and will have all the chargenet chargers listed in the navigation.

Like I say I haven't done the update myself so I can't attest to it's functionality. 

I did see there was a free trial on offer on xanavi.eu but that links seems to of been removed it would be great if this was put back up so we could try it for a short time.

numberonekiwi:

I did see there was a free trial on offer on xanavi.eu but that links seems to of been removed it would be great if this was put back up so we could try it for a short time.

 

I got one of these from DriveEV, who promise a free update to the 2019 maps when they become available.  Currently 2014 maps, but we don't really bother with them anyway.  Mainly got it because the wife uses the bluetooth phone features and they're a pain to navigate in Japanese.

The NZ radio stations and correct GPS clock setting are a bonus.