Whew, after a month and a half I finally got my baby back from the dealer's body shop. I think it came out nicely. Yes, I know the rear hubcap is wrong, but Scion sent the wrong one and the correct one should be here today or tomorrow. The only other compliant I have is that I need to take it back to have them clean the interior (dusty dusty dusty). They admitted they forgot to do it and are going to make it right, so I won't ping 'em too bad, especially since the bodywork turned out so nicely. Here are some before and after pics:
before:

after:

and another closer before and after:
before:

after:

 

wow what happened?

 

Full story on crash can be found here

 

Its a beautiful thing
Still waiting on some parts before the trip to the body shop. Over two months now.
My goal has been moved to early spring.

Looks great! Any trouble with paint match?

 

what he said? im afraid to get parts painted for fear of them being way off

 

None that I can tell. They went ahead and painted the entire side, even though the front fender wasn't damaged (even repainted the mirror housing). I know from my days painting houses that if you can paint an entire side to a corner, even if there is a slight color change it is harder to tell if you have to look around corners, but I honestly cannot tell at all, and the paint has the same gold shimmer in full sunlight. I just have to get used to people staring at me all over again (for some reason I never got a second glance driving the rental- a chevy cobalt, or my dad's loaner- a volvo).

 

gotta love the envy paint. or as i like to call it....BRIGHT F'n LOOK AT ME GREEN

 

looks good as new . Ihave a bop and had the same accident
and the paint matched with no problem.