Every time I take the seat belt off it flies back and the metal part hits the inside of the door. This has caused 100's of little indentations on the inside of the door. When the sun hits it, you can see all of them.

Does anyone else have this problem?

 

I've never noticed this in mine but now I'll have to look...

 

Mine has it also. Can't do anything about it. Comes with the territory.

 

Which territory is that? The territory where Nissan can't engineer a door material that can withstand a piece of metal hitting it? ;-)

They tried to save money by using whatever material they used and now I'm going to complain about it. I want new inside door panels or whatever you call them and I'm going to get them.

I'm going down this week and I'm going to show them what the door looks like and ask them if this is the quality they want others seeing. I'm going to tell them I've had people ask about it and were absolutely astonished that Nissan would engineer the material on the inside of the doors to be so soft and inferior it can't withhold the seat belt hitting it.

I'm going to ask them if this is the type of remarks they were expecting when the engineers decided to go with that material. I'm going to ask them why this was not mentioned in the owners manual. Either way they are wrong:
if they knew it would happen they should have mentioned it. If they were unaware of it then it's a defect and should be covered under warranty.

It is not normal wear and tear. I'v never had a car do this in the 25 years I'vce owned cars, so I'm not sure how it can be considered normal.

Thats my case and I'm sticking to it. ;-)

 

I baby my car like it's glass inside and out. If the belt got away from me one time and hit the door hard I would handle it more gentley.

 

Buy the 06 door inserts when they become available: the rubber is supposed to be "spongier".

 

I baby my car, but refuse to alter the way I take my belt off, simply because the inside of the door can't handle it. Call me stubborn.

I'll update with everyone and let them know how the 06 door inserts look once the dealer installs them under warranty.

 

Are you saying they have agreed to do that?

 

If they agreed to that then good work! But I doubt the dealer would replace your door panels (1) at all, (2) with parts from the new model. They will probably call it wear and tear.