New Beetle, paint damage from the door handles
I have a 2000 New Beetle. The paint on both doors has been damaged by the door handles. It appears that the door handles flex the door panel, on the hinge end of the handle, and this causes damage to the paint. On the driver's side the result is that the paint has cracked and flaked off from a spot about the size of a 50 cent piece, right around the door handle pivot. The passenger side door is less effected, I think because it is used less.
I have started to repair the damaged areas, and intend to have the doors repainted but I want to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
I wonder if anyone has had a similar experience and what was done to repair the damage and what was done to prevent it from happening again. Is this something that VW is aware of? Is there a new door handle design that fixes this?
Any advice will be appreciated.
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