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This, one of AKs more sensible posts.
People usually go online to scream and shout about their problems.
Mine has been pretty much perfect, better battery, better screen, fast and much improved sound through both speakers.
The 5 battery must be much improved, I've got 10.5 hours standby and 3.5 hours usage and still on 77%
Makes a nice change, not had such good battery life since the blackberry days
Will do.
Check out the connectors I linked to, incredibly easy to use. You just strip the cable, place the connector over, twist them together, centre connector over joint, and heat gun it.
I think it will be a chop and solder job, but not looked properly yet.
Will probably use these: http://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/product/926/category/163
Got the same issue myself.
Contacts are a nightmare to clean up, can't get much access. I've used sandpaper on the cluster side and a wire brush on the car side and got it sort of working, well good enough that I'm about legal while driving around.
It's the car side thats the most difficult to...
Depending how many mins/data you need, mine works out at:
£520 phone
£6.90 x 12 = £82.80 (200 mins/5000 texts/500MB) - £50 Quidco = £32.80
Total cost - £552.80 :)
Most might need more data though, depends how much of your time is spent close to wifi.