OOOh! Shiny!

[howeird]

Picked up the car, the paint job looks great. It is the exact color, right down to the subtle pearlescence. They did such a good job it doesn't look artificially new, it looks like a car should look if it's taken care of (which is something I definitely didn't do). The final cost was exactly the price on the estimate.

Before picking it up, I dropped off the rental car, and when I told them about the burned out dome light they knocked off a day's rental. So that's two days less than planned.

Hopefully, the increase in trade-in will be double the cost of the paint/rental.