

Nobody’s replacing the entire door panel for a dent, it’s dealerships that make money on scratch and dent repair. To be honest there would probably be more replacement parts the other way around because once you do actually manage to dent or scratch the plastic panel it does have to be replaced.




I’ve always thought that it had something to do with manufacturing complexity. In metal doors the door itself is the frame of the door and everything is just attached to the metal. With a plastic panel you still need a metal frame to hold everything.