Wheel Arch Rust Assessment (Prior to purchase)

Ouch at the price on that low mileage one, although i guess it's basically a new car, the sprint dopes seem reasonable although i'd have to have it sprayed as i don't like red cars, I know it's odd and its probably one of the most common colours in most models but yeah. Good for perspective though!

I did actually spot  this moonshine 135  just now which seems a bargain (description isn't great in terms of detail though but it has a lot of extras by the looks of things) i'm aware that colour is incredibly rare, can't quite decide if i like it personally and i'm not a fan of cream leather either but thats a heck of a car for the price tag

That looks to be a very nice car. It is amongst other MG's so suggests an enthusiast.
Under the bonnet is as clean as mine and the rest of the car looks good too.
Don't let 135 put you off..I was adamant I wanted a 160 until the Right car came along and I love how mine goes.
Just keep an open mind and you will find one.

I can't decide whether it's the rarity that appeals to me on that one (in which case I'm annoyed at myself) or if the colour is growing on me... It sort of makes me think of the hologram art that was very popular in the late 90s.
There's less room for me to put my own stamp on it but obviously it does seem almost immaculate (it's a concourse winner apparently) and it is of course cheaper too

Colour is definitely a personal thing, I myself immensely despise boring colours like brown, beige, grey (it's not silver it's grey if silver was that colour, no bastard would bother digging it up!) and white. Black used to be cool when it was bad arse, but they even paint the worlds most boring car the Toyota Camery black these days so its now sooooo uncool, and well pink is off limits for obvious reasons.
I do like an in your face colour on sports cars.

The average German marques Colour chart that consists of something they call gold but is really a metallic beige, 3 whites, 5 blacks and 227 shades of grey bores me witless!

I suspect it’s time for us to back off & “leave the Kid alone”.
There had been nothing but good advice, any bit of which would have been of value during our tentative proddings when our cars were just ideas, good or bad.
The majority of us are of an age where nurturing a prospective fellow is second nature, not wishing a new member any problems we encountered on the way.
However, those bits we overlooked are those bit that have engendered the skills we now have.
If when opening a jigsaw box you find all the bits glued in the right places, it fails completely in it prime purpose.
Unless you are prepared to throw untold & endless amounts of money at your new toy, owning a classic is buying into web sites like this, before, during & after rust,oil, dirt, blood, snot & tears.
God bless your car & all who will derive pleasure from what ever gender you decide to ascribe to it.
With you choice in contacting the MG mafia, means not having to jump in mid stream but to have folk steadying the boat at the bank whilst you get seated.
M

Colour is a personal thing..the OP should be glad he wasn't around in the British Leyland days...a beige Allergic anyone? No thanks.
Mine is silver otherwise known as galvanised steel because it looks like a galvanised water tank. It's been put on thick though so maybe that's the reason it is rust free. 
Does it bother me? No because it is the right car for me and I love it.
I have always been a lone wolf and I plow my own furrow so perhaps taking my opinions is a bit off cundum!
Good luck mate, you have a good open attitude towards these cars and ownership will just suck you in like water to a sponge..but that's a good thing.

My car is Volcano Orange a colour that most folk would avoid like the plague, but it's so outrageous and in your face (a bit like me really) I love it!
It's what they call in the motor trade a hero colour, which is an out there colour used to get attention by the manufacturers in the brochures, advertising, showrooms and the press fleet. they know full well it won't be a popular choice and usually drop that colour option in a year or two once it's work has been done. As was the case with the MGF and Volcano Orange, they only offered it for a year or so and used it in the brochures, ads and on some press fleet cars.
You can have your preferences for any colour you like, that's entirely up to you......To each his own.
 

I agree with what you've said about the sills on that car that KidCreation is looking at,
looks very much like they have been spayed before.

you can use a fridge magnet, of the flexible type that real estate agents, home handyman services and emergency plumbers etc. hand our for advertising, to check for excessive filler. first you place it upon part of the car that is unlikely to be loaded with filler and feel the amount of effort to peel it off again, don't drag it across the paint work that can damage the paint. Then apply the magnet in the area you suspect might have filler in it, if it doesn't stick or is weak, then you may well have confirmation of your suspicions.
This isn't foolproof, there are proper instruments for non destructive determination of coating thickness but they are costly, and finding someone who both has one and knows how to use it properly maybe difficult.

Just another factor to consider is the actual colour.

If it is Sunspot yellow, that is a flip colour(biomorphic). It flips from yellow to a more mango colour...
Flip paints are notoriously difficult to match. A friend had a sunspot yellow.TF, which got a small but noticeable scratch on tne rear quarter. After three attempts to blend the panel the car had to be completely resprayed!
Check the paint code. If it starts with an I it's a flip paint.  IAC is sunspot yellow, FAR is Trophy yellow, a much easier to match colour...

Never knew that..thank you..I think silver is pretty cool now!

Hello much better to remove rust  etc,with a wire wheel in an angle grinder this will not remove good metal, which a grinding wheel in an angle grinder will .Then treat it with a good rust preventor and the U/C ant paint as normal Len