Good Bye Rental, Welcome home Mazda...

We got our car back this week, a few days earlier than expected. It was given a full inspection from the shop who fixed it, then from our Progressive insurance agents, and a two days later we took it to the Mazda dealer for it's 15,000 mile check up and had them inspect it as well. Call us paranoid, but neither one of us had really been in a big accident before and that car is the most expensive thing we've ever bought. The dealer appraised it for us post accident and said it's definitely worth several thousand less now. Great! We expected to get news like that, but it's still depressing. We are working on our diminished value claim, something neither of us had ever heard of. Thanks for giving us the heads up Dad! Hopefully we can get some money out of the other driver's insurance and use that to pay down what we still owe on our car. Cars are such a necessary evil and no matter how good you take care of them they always depreciate in value or someone else comes along and hits you. Oh well! What can you do? At least we have our car back. I must admit it was weird getting in our car for the first time. We've had the rental car for a month now and we sort of got used to it I guess. Don't get me wrong we are so glad to have our car back, but it was weird getting readjusted to our car after driving that beast for month. We are both definitely thrilled to have our car back in action. I haven't taken any pictures of her since she' been fixed, but in case you forget what her back end looked like pre-accident.

Here she is...

It pretty much looks the same now. They did a really great job on the repairs. 

We're only missing our license plate cover.