Has anyone had this problem? I just noticed my 1/4 panel on the right side miss aligned about an inch, thought at first someone had run in to it on a ride. Then close inspection shows the header coming out of the engine (with the heat shield in tact) is melting the panels to a point that they are sucking in closer to the header. I have only 525 miles on it and about 62 hours, no hard riding.
I had that problem on my 09, Turned out that it was the way I was hooking up the tie downs after riding and putting it back on the trailer. Caused the plastic to get to close to the hot pipe.
As stated get some heat tape or put in some extra heat-shielding. The RZR's are known to have this problem. You can also buy exhaust - header wrap from summit racing this is the route I went.