You made a good choice and the new Jazz looks to be back to the same standard.

An experienced painter suggests you have it cut-and-polished, which should restore the colour, and then polish every six to eight weeks with a good polish like Meguiar's Wet Look to maintain it. He also suggests that the reason the bumper and bonnet look better than the original factory paint is that the repairer simply did a better job than the factory did originally.

YES, I do think this is unacceptable. It is common practice by car companies in situations like yours to offer to pay for the parts and sometimes part of the labour, but as your car has done only 43,000km I think Honda should cover the entire cost of the repair. For a gearbox to fail at such a low mileage is most unusual and you would suspect it is because of a manufacturing fault. Forget about the dealer, go straight to Honda and ask for a better deal.