That line about the before and after photos looking weird is so real, my buddy had the exact same reaction with his old Civic. He hit a concrete post at a gas station and the rear corner was folded in bad, and he was quoted around $700 by a shop near us. A guy at his work told him about the heat gun trick, so he grabbed one for like 40 bucks and spent a Saturday afternoon on it. He used a hair dryer at first and it did nothing, then the real heat gun softened the plastic enough to push most of it out from behind. He said the hardest part was not rushing it and keeping the heat moving so he didn't burn the paint. It held up fine through two summers and a winter, though you could still see faint marks if you looked close. Best money he ever spent on that car honestly.

Ha, my buddy did almost the exact same thing but with Excel. He put "advanced" on his resume when he barely knew how to bold a cell, and the job he landed had him building pivot tables on day two. He panicked, watched like four hours of YouTube tutorials every night that first week, and by month three he was the guy the whole office went to for help. Nobody ever asked him to prove anything, they just cared that the reports came out right. The funny part is he's now genuinely great at it, so the lie turned into the truth. That said, I do know a girl who claimed she could drive a forklift and that one blew up on her within an hour, so it really depends on whether the skill is something you can actually pick up fast. A typing number is easy to fix with practice, a license or a degree is not, and that's the line that matters.