Abstract: A vehicle door guard (10) is constructed of a one-piece resilient elongated body member (12) extruded as one piece to have a slot (18) along a length of a front surface thereof. After the elongated body member is extruded, two separated, semi-circular, transverse hinge notches (42 and 44) are cut into the front surface for separating first and second end portions (58 and 60) of the body member and first and second elongated magnets (14 and 16) are mounted in first and second portions of the elongated slot in the respective first and second end portions. The semi-circularly shaped notches are separated by a plateau (46), through which the elongated slot extends without a magnet therein, by an approximate distance equal to the radius (37) of the semi-circular notches.