Hy Abathswed,
I bought an A112 last October. The previous owner lived 850km south of my home. Therefore he sent me pictures of the car. Everything looked great. The window frame was fine, the doors were all right and so on. Only the "A-Säule" was covered with some black plastic stuff, which wasn't very helpfull covering the rust underneath.
But anyway, finally I took of the plastics on the rear left side. Wasn't very much of a problem. I didn't even need a screwdriver!
The rear left end wasn't very healthy as well.
By now, the car is laying on a soft "bed" for us to have easy access to the bodywork underneath. We are now in process of taking off all the paint and stoneprotection stuff. Believe me: You will find more rust on your car, if you would do that to your car.
We found four big rust spots, which were very well covered by the stoneprotection.
And for the others: even so our car has a lot of rust, we will rebuild it on your own (with a rusian helper!!! Very helpfull indeed!!! Lada and rust? These guys know how to deal with it!!!)
Along with a french Abarth. We hope to finish our work 'till the forum-meeting in June.
Our advise: DON'T GIVE UP!!!
Regardes
ChrisFL and michael.S