Does anybody else's door panel get damaged if you rest your arm by the window? I have had one replace already under warranty and now the replacements given up the ghost and squashed and ripped in the same spot. OK I have fairly big arms as I am a former (note former!) bodybuilder but I have never had this happen on any other car I have owned.

I've noticed it where I lean on the door just under the window.

It was worse on the Vectra I had for a time before.

One of the downsides of all these soft touch plastics.

Yeah, this annoys me too. I've found I can get it to go by "massaging" the surrounding plastic towards the indented bit. Gives me something to do when I'm parked around Junction 23 on the M1 northbound of a friday. Didn't realise it could completely fail though!

Another irritation is the fabric like material that covers the B-pillar, it frays around halfway down where it meets the plastic and gets very dirty near the seatbelt housing at the top. That's a bad design if ever there was one.

I remember seeing the one in Shifty's old car wich was pretty bad and hence makes me think twice about leaning on mine.