What have you done to your car today?

[Akagi]

So things got much worse...

How on earth this wasn't even an advisory last year I don't know. Same story with my MG really. Went from no advisory to fail.

Sorry to see this, it still isn't a huge amount of welding in the grand scheme of things, but I'm not sure why you're putting all this effort into an MGF/TF.

Does the car have some kind of sentimental value? Or is it sunk cost fallacy? I'd just get rid of it and buy something else unless you really love it and plan on keeping it a long time.

If you do it at all I'd just get a "bloke with welder" type guy to do it on your driveway, it will probably only cost you a couple hundred for all of it... Just make sure they are actually competent first, get them to show you some pictures of past repairs or something. Make sure they actually cut out and treat the rust first. That is the kind of welding I paid a friend of a friend to do on my E30 when I first got it, he did an absolute tonne of work, and 90% of it is still rock solid 6 years later.