A long narrow dent where something has dragged or folded the metal in, leaving a visible line across the panel. Creases come out slowly, from the ends inwards, or they come out wrong.
Creases are quoted individually from a photo. There is no standard price because no two creases run the same way across a panel.
Length is only part of it. What really sets the price is how sharp the fold is and whether the metal has been stretched along the bottom of the crease. A long soft crease from a hedge or a wall is often less work than a short vicious one from a trolley corner, because the sharp one has taken the metal further past its limit.
A crease is reversed in the opposite order to how it happened. This is what that looks like.
Creases take longer than their size suggests, and a stubborn one can be most of a day. Worked properly the panel keeps its original paint and there is nothing to cure before you drive it.
In most cases yes, provided the paint is intact and the metal has not torn. The deeper the fold the more time it takes, and we will be honest about anything we do not think will finish cleanly.
It means the fold pushed the panel past the point where it can return to its original size. Stretched metal has to be shrunk back, which is specialist work, and on some panels it limits the final result. We will tell you if yours is stretched.
Sound original paint usually survives, because it flexes with the metal. Paint that has been resprayed before is less predictable, and a crease that has already cracked will still show that crack after the shape is restored.
Usually the door card comes off so a rod can reach behind the fold. It comes off with the right tools and goes back correctly, with no drilling.
Send a photo today and you will have an answer and a price back quickly. Booking in from there is usually a matter of days rather than weeks.
