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welding aluminum requires TIG. It's harder and more specialized.
welding mild steel body panels are simple with equipment any body shop will have.
You can weld aluminium with MIG just fine. It is indeed way more difficult than normal steel and not every car shop has skills nor equipment for it.
'can,' maybe, huge pain in the ass more likely. I'm far from an expert, but I've had much more success with AC. That oxide layer rebuilds itself pretty quick...
You need a suitable welder for that with pulse feed so that it kinda-sorta acts like square wave AC. With your average hobbyist garage welder it's going to be a real pain in the ass.
Hell any home 120v wire welder can do mild steel. It is the cutting and shaping part that is hard.
No, that's easy as well. It's the not breaking to pieces and looking like shit part that is hard.
Well hell, I've never welded anything and I struggle with those things in my daily life anyway.
ahh yeah, my steel stick welding looks like a swarm of seagulls with daierherra