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We have recently purchased a 2004 Toyota Ipsum 240s with a “DVD Voice Navigation” GPS? system and “Wide Multi AV Station” however everything is in Japanese, all of the screen prompts and the three manuals supplied with the vehicle - two appear to be for the DVD/AV systems and the other an owner's manual.

I am wondering if there is any way to change the language setting for the DVD/GPS/AV to English, or perhaps a disc available to enable us to use these functions, or even somewhere that could supply English manuals for these?

I have located a website that sells the Owner’s Manual in English however from the pictures in the Japanese manual it doesn’t appear to cover anything to do with the DVD/AV/GPS. Such a shame to have these but not be able to use them! Even some of the buttons on it are in Japanese.

Thanks in advance :)

This is a common gripe with Japanese imports with touch screens, voice activation, Sat nav etc. To my knowledge, there's no way to turn them into English. I've heard of some of these systems being replaced completely with aftermarket units at huge cost, but perhaps someone out there has found a better solution??