Update from the Finnish forum:

There is now a service instruction out to fix the door handle rubbing problem. In Finland the importer has supplied a work instruction on how to fix this and a few of the members have already had this fixed on their cars. For some reason this problem does not affect right hand drive cars, just the left hand drives

So all you non-UK followers of this forum, contact your dealer and demand this to be fixed as it is an official problem with a known fix to it!

Had a trip to the dealer with my Octavia today to disable the automatic function of the rear window wiper.

While looking at one of their Yetis I could clearly see how the doorhandles will rub the edge of the recessed portion where doorhandle rests.

Also had a look at one of their test vehicles together with one of their salesmen. On the drivers door we could clearly see the rubbing in the paint.

Then back to have a look at Octavias and Fabias, there seems to be a difference in the geometry of the way the handles swings out.

On Octavia and Fabia the handles swings clear of the door in both ends, -larger swing radius?

On Yeti the handles swings out with a seemingly smaller swing radius, and therefore swings clear at the latch end while the opposite end just swings/rubs very close to the edge of the recess.

I am happy to see there is a fix ongoing i Finland. Will follow up the Norwegian branch, and hopefully we will have a fix here soon.

Update. In Finland there is now an "official" fix for the problem from the importer. I had mine fixed this week, and now the door handles are a bit further away from the door so no rubbing will appear. The doors also look clean and "unscratched" after the procedure so I guess I was lucky to get the fix done while only the wax cover had been damaged and not the paintwork itself.

So if you have this problem: push your dealers to get it fixed. It's a known and recognized problem, and there is an official fix out there from Skoda.