Canon service center in Irvine rocks!

While on the Second Annual California POTN Get Together the auto focus went out on my beloved 70-300 DO IS
I filled out a Canon Repair Request on line. I was given a Repair Order Number and quoted a price of $118.
Tuesday, January 30th I shipped it by UPS to the Irvine service center. To my surprise it arrived today by FedEx. That is less than a week turnaround. Wowie zowie.
Below are before and after images. They are straight out of the camera as evidenced by the sensor boogers (sorry about the tech speak:p ). Of course I did have to resize for the web.
In any case I am truly stoked about the service and glad to have my baby back.

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Smart, those chinamen.

Canon folks are good people, in my experiences. Glad to see things worked out for you. Fortunately, I've yet to have to send anything in.

yeah they are great.

I was pretty rattled when the focus went kaput. As you can see in the first photo it when it finally locked it was waaay out.
Sorry I didn't have any ducks handy so I settled for the dove. I just wanted to get it back on the camera to make sure it works.

I took a 70-200mm f/2.8L IS in for focus calibration, and it was completed and ready for pickup by the end of the next day... I'm not even a CPS member.