When someone damages your property, it’s usually expected that they’ll fix it properly, not just halfway.

So, what would you do if a friend crashed your car and agreed to fix it, but when you get it back, the part is a completely different color than the rest of the car? Would you get it painted yourself? Or would you expect them to take care of that, too?

In the following story, one man and his friend disagree about this very thing. Here’s what’s going on.

AITA for expecting my friend to repaint the moss-green bumper he put on my silver car?

Recently, my friend borrowed my car to drive and pick up some ciggies.

On the way there, he got caught up in an accident and completely messed the front bumper up. Which is really annoying because I need my car for my job (I work in traffic control), so I pretty much said he needs to pay for a new bumper ASAP since I was going to start losing a lot of money on Ubers for work.

He said he’d get it fixed in a couple of days, which made me pretty happy because I wasn’t expecting it to be sorted out so quickly.

The bumper was a way different color.

Anyway, fast forward two days, and he parks my car in my driveway, and lo and behold, the bumper is moss green on my silver car.

Initially, I just thought, “Okay, it’s going to get repainted soon,”

So I asked him when the bumper was getting repainted, and he pretty much said whenever you want, to which I replied, “Does tomorrow work?” and he said, “I don’t know, you can do it whenever you want to.”

His friend thinks he should’ve specified this from the start.

When he told me this, it felt like he was implying it’s up to me, so I told him, “No, dude. You’re paying for the paint job.”

He called me a *******, saying that’s ******** because he’d already replaced the bumper, and if I wanted it to match the rest of the car, I should have told him so he could have gotten it done while the bumper was being fixed.

But I feel like it’s assumed that the bumper color is going to match the car when you have to fix a car THAT YOU CRASHED, but I don’t know if that’s standard or not, since I’ve never been in a car crash.

AITA?

Wow! It’s pretty much assumed that the car should look how it did before it was crashed.

Let’s see what advice the readers over at Reddit have to offer him.

This woman is picky about who drives her car for this reason.

For this person, his friend is trying to spend as little as possible.

According to this comment, that’s a risk of loaning your car.

This reader doesn’t think it should have to be spelled out.

It’s pretty much common sense.

His friend is just trying to get out of spending any more money.

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