Got quite a suprise this morning when I opened the car door, it has turned into one big spider nest overnight. Webs upon webs criss crossing all over front to back with hundreds of little yellow and black spiders running around / huddled together in every crack/corner. Steering wheel was practically encased in web!

My phones bluetooth seems to be broken so cannot upload pics but have identified them as 'Araneus diadematus' 'European Garden Spider'

These are the babies (pic from google)

Needed to use the car so cleaned it out best I could, must have removed hundreds of the buggers along with all the webs although it doesnt seem to have even put a dent in their numbers and an hour later it was covered again.

Just before dinner I let off a bug bomb in there which seems to have thinned their numbers, but they are still crawling out of every crack. They seem to be concentrated around the driver side of the dashboard.. knew I should have evicted that big hairy chap from my wing mirror :(

Anyone had this before? Any idea's how to get rid of them short of torching the car?

sell it !

Shouldn't they be on the Roof Arach?

Id have set fire to it by now!

know anyone with a cat ?

Kill it with fire!

Last time I had this issue I had the car shipped to a company in Jönköping. They put the car in an isolated room and cooled it down to -50 Celsius or something. It killed everything quite efficiently and you dont have to use any chemicals that might damage the car, or yourself when you breathe it in.

I'm sure you guys have a company doing something similar.

Binzie my mother has a cat. But ive already given them a home against my wishes, im not feeding the bloody things too!

I said no fire! lol It may only be a felicia but it is/was mint, only 18k on the clock. :(

Dakks I will look into that, but sounds pricey, and surely those temps cant be too good for the car either?

They are rebuilding as we speak :(

borrow someone elses hoover

Haha poor old spideys. Hoover maneuver!

Hoover is your best bet, then leave the hoover in the garden for a few hours as far away as possible from your house because they will crawl back out

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Dakks I will look into that, but sounds pricey, and surely those temps cant be too good for the car either?

Admittedly a -69 Chevy has a bit less equipment that can fail, but it didn't do any harm at all. And it wasn't that pricey, bloke wanted 2500 sek for it, which is around 230 quid. A chemical solution of the problem was nearly twice that, 4500, and they would've kept the car for two weeks.

Edited 24 June, 201312 yr by DaKKs_152

Install a geko in the car or some other hungry lizard?

bloody hell............ ...Spiders thats worse than my brothers golf he had a earwig nest at the back of his dash they was all over the bloody car............

Ohgod, as others have said my car would have been torched the instant I discovered that. Curious to see the pics though once you get them uploaded though.

Ewww would of just ran those feckers over!!!