Thank you so much for all the suggestions and comments. You guys are the best!

David -- FLY-ME won't work. Might as well put DO ME . I used to live in Alexandria VA, and flew out of DCA and IAD all the time. Then I switched to International. I'm now in MO.

Dan -- I like XF-FLYN -- but too many characters, unless I omit the dash. I want to get the fight terrorism plates -- and they only allow for 6 letters, or 5 letters plus the dash,space, or aprostophe.

qtrfoil -- will ask hubby in the morning if he can figure out FMTHEC -- I see your location is Alexandria VA -- are you mil ? I'm guessing you are since your plate appears to have a military reference. BUHBYE is the only one hubby is happy with so far. He sais he'd feel funny driving a car with a girly flight att reference. Don't blame him though.

The dealer has my benefit of the doubt. I'm not one to cop a bitchy attitude and demand a brand new car. He took me over to the repair shop and they were very accomodating in terms of scheduling the repair and the rental for the day. We'll see how it turns out -- they did tell me that they'd made her look like new. So we'll see.

And yes, Im loving the car