theres a huge spider living in my car!!! its as big as my hand and he ran under the panel with the rivets on it

im scared hes gonna jump on me when im driving and im gonna crash

whyd it have to be a spide? a rat i coulda handled. a mouse i coulda handled. a bee hive i coulda handled.

but a spider??

Dead spiders behind walls don't smell bad like dead mice behind walls.

Yee-haa!!

My Vette wouldn't be a daily driver until that spider was eradicated! I can't stand spiders either.

Be careful about turning on the vent - you don't want a spider to shoot out!
-terry

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Time to call a professional in...or maybe you can lure him out with a cricket.

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Originally posted by Golden80:
Yikes...I don't like spiders at all. In Colorado there's actually quite a few Black Widows. I squashed two of them in my house and a few others outside. There's only one thing I like less than spiders. Snakes!

Matt

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Snakes don't get in little places and scare the piss outta ya like spiders do though.

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'75 Vette

Hey, I was pissed.

Good luck. and btw, I'd get a professional. I just hope it hasn't layed eggs in your car. Imagine what would happen if you were driving and thousands of them hatched and infested your car while you're doing 70 on the highway. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

J/K. Call the Orkin man.

http://www.repelandkill.com/repelspiders.shtml

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Paul 1979 L82
A work in progress until....?
But getting close!
Ontario, Canada

u guys crack me up!

well this spider was a huge one, it looked like one of those "reproducing" creatures from the movie alien (the big lobster things)

THIS THING WAS HUUUUUUUUUGE!

i live in florida, dunno what kind are here. it was brownish color.

anyways, i have coated the entire interior with spider spray

i suppose i can live with the spider spray smell hehehehe.

im contemplating drilling out the rivets on that panel and attacking him in his home (the passenger side rear quarter panel that rivets to quarter panel end)

hey maybe i can put a fogger in my car???

hahhahahahahaha

(its a crazy kind of laugh, i hope they dont come and take me away to a place where ill be painting easter eggs)

Thanks for the memories! Those were good times and happy days!

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_IN017

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Originally posted by paul79:
They are sensitive to higher frequency sound as seen at the site below. If you do not wish to purchase an ultrasound device, you can try a ShopVac or a Hoover vacuum cleaner. The pitch from these machines will drive most creatures away very quickly. It seems to work better on the male species. The Hoover drives me crazy according to my Wife. Seriously, the pitch of these motors is quite high and running one inside the car might work.

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HEY, how about a Ricer with a fart can!!!! I know they annoy the piss outa me!!!!

Anyway back to your problem. I'd just spray some Raid in it and keep the doors and windows open for a while to let it air out.

Good luck!

http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/en/venomspi.html

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Paul 1979 L82
A work in progress until....?
But getting close!
Ontario, Canada

I used to use spider traps in my basement. They were a tray of sticky stuff that had some kind of food in the middle that attracted them. They would walk on the tray and get stuck. This might not work against a spider that is as big as your hand! You may need a few of these traps. Just don't step on or get this tray stuck to your carpet.

Maybe spiders are attracted to fiberglass and that is what the food in the tray is???

Or, you could wait til dark and try to catch admiring your gages. Just don't smush him on the carpet or leather. A spider as big as your hand could make a mess!

You could drive really really fast and make him dizzy so he falls out and then drop kick him out the door.

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There is nothing worse than spiders!!!!! *YUCK*!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get the Raid!!!!!!!! USE THE WHOLE CAN!!!!!!!!

Give me 1000 spiders to 1 snake

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Paul 1979 L82
A work in progress until....?
But getting close!
Ontario, Canada

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

the yellow c5 thing had me on the floor !!!

good luck, and don't get bit

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76ZZ4

SO, well...... DID YOU GET THE SPIDER?

had quite a few days of monitoring the spider situation heheheh...

havent sighted him again ....yet!!!

here are steps to insure u dont have a spider encounter:

(1) when entering the car to drive it after a spider "event" has occured, be sure to spray a protective line of spider spray around the drivers seat. this however does not protect from flanking manuevers from above.

(2) spiders dont like 2 chamber flowmasters!!! brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! especially the resonance @ 1500 rpm!

(3) before entering the car, be sure and make a total fool of yourself and bend each seat forward and do a spider check. This makes u even look more like an idiot when people are watching you as they wonder WTF you are doing. (especially when u look up at all the corners of your t-tops before you start the car!!

(4) position the can of spider spray at close reach on the center console armrest. It also makes an interesting conversational peice when taking passengers.

(5) if it itches you, then scratch it!! it might be a spider!!! slap it!! the time u dont scratch it might be the time its the spider!!

(6) play a RUN DMC cd and play it loud!! if it worked for the US army in panama then it might work for you too!!

i hope this has helped others with their possible spider encounters!

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76 daily driver (80k miles all mine baby!!)

Cruising home from Uni late one afternoon in my souped up Valiant Coupe on what had been a rainy day. I come over the crest of a hill and get the sun in my eyes so put the sun visor down. BINGO, a Huntsman or Wolf spider about the size of my hand falls into my lap.

I see this massive hairy Tarrantula type spider in my lap, scream like a girl at the top of my lungs and dive on the brakes. Needless to say by diving onto the brakes on the wet road sent my car into spin. I don't know how many times it spun around but as soon as it came to a halt I just dived out and left the car where it was. With spider in my lap it came with me when I jumped out so at least it wasn't in the car when I continued on.

Very embarrassing incident that could have ended up in a major accident. I just hate spiders so much!!! I was also very nervous about getting into that car for about a month after that, and often did a full spider search before driving.

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Sheridan Brown
Perth, Western Australia
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I have to say that I did not have any spider phobia at all... until now. You guys have managed to give me one!!! I too am going to start doing the 4pt spider check.

I did have one interested experience w/ a bush hog. I was under it getting ready to pull the blade. Looked up and there was a black widow looking back at me. Never moved so fast in my life. SOLVED that problem by running the bushhog!! Bye bye spider.

Tim M.

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1977 Black L82 4spd
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Originally posted by Steve Straus:
I hate spiders. I don't know what the hell it was, but I was kicked back in my recliner watching TV last night when this spider comes dangling down on a web/string/whatever. It's like he was on the ceiling, aimed above me and rapelled down towards me. Scared the hell out of me. I moved the chair and it it with a propane torch.

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Ummmm....Steve?? Why did you have a propane torch with you while you were watching tv??

I had a similar experience yesterday that made me think about this thread. Dropped my son off at Kindergarten, headed on my way to work when I see somethinc crawling on my leg. I look down and it is a HUGE carpenter ant. So my instinctive reaction was to just flick the thing away. Not a clue where it ended up though. At least it's not a spider that's going to lay eggs & hatch all over my car! (That happened to a neighbor. She freaked out )