Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First off - Dog doors are severely overpriced for what they are. Secondly - For the price why do they include VINYL screws?! Every review I read warned of these breaking during install so I was very careful. Many folks purchased their own 8 - 32 machine screws instead. Here I am 10 months after installation and I hear a loud crash in my garage. I go into the garage to investigate and what do I find? A very startled and confused Rottweiler staring at me through a hole in my garage entry door. Laying on the ground is the dog door frame itself. The look on my pup's face was incredible. She'd run in and out of that door God knows how many times and never once did it explode and clatter onto the floor. I live in Montana. It gets cold here. Those vinyl screws just could not hold up long term. I just took a trip to the hardware store and bought six of the 8-32 screws in 2.5" length that I SHOULD have purchased before I ever installed this dog door. I had to beat the old broken vinyl screws out of the frame so I could even put new screws in. The vinyl heads on the old screws just all blew off the frame at once apparently. I found them all laying on the garage floor. In total with the trip to the store and all I just spent an hour re-installing a dog door that I installed just 10 months ago. Also, the magnetic flap on this seems like a great selling feature. And, in a perfect world on level ground with 1G gravity and a prevailing breeze of zero it works great. Heck, in that scenario no magnetic closure probably keeps the door in the same closed position. But any slight breeze at all and that flap might as well be the sail on Black Beard's pirate ship. Also keep in mind if your dog likes to chew things (like Rottweilers do) you'll have to replace the door flap at some point. And they cost half as much as the door itself (assuming you find the Amazon deal). And the little screws that hold the flap itself on tend to fall out a lot. I'm constantly tightening them because they simply screw into a strip of thin metal with no backing to hold them. So as the flap moves the screws just unscrew themselves over time. The quality of components here is abysmal considering I purchased the "Extra Large" version designed for dogs Up To 220lbs!! Only one thing about this dog door hasn't disappointed me so far. And that's the security block you can put in to keep your dog outside when you wish. Heck, the aluminum frame itself isn't even that great. The holes didn't line up perfectly.