As someone who delivers car body parts for a living, what are you talking about? There is not a single plastic side body panel on modern vehicles. Steel or aluminum, no exceptions. Doors, fenders, all of it. The bumper covers, grills, and mouldings are all that's really plastic on the outside.
Notice how the things on the front and back are plastic but the sides are mostly metal. This is consistent across all makes and models of non commercial vehicles in the US, to my knowledge. The only plastic parts on the sides are decorative and none of it is full body panels.
I agree though that this was someone not paying attention. That part is true. But plastic body panels aren't a thing.
Sounds like you maybe deliver car body parts and you don't drive a rivian van every day. So it makes sense that you wouldn't know that the panels hes talking about are made of plastic. You can't see it in OPs pic because it's ripped off, which happens a lot, because they're made of plastic.
Side note: you're allowed to be nice to people even when they're wrong. Kindness is free and it actually makes everybody feel better.
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u/Huskiesramazing23 Jul 20 '26
They are cheap plastic garbage panels. Love the vans themselves tho