The Octavia recently had a large spiders nest hatch out around the driver's side windscreen wiper. SWMBO squashed all she coul dbut by the time she had th ebonnet open, most had scurried away.

A few weeks on and the car has a lot of cobwebs in it :thumbdwn:

Can you get anything to "set off" in the car to fumigate the air and kill the little pests.

Oh dear. I had a similar incident a few years ago with my Fiat Uno and the biggest, fastest moving spider you have ever seen in your life. As I tried to flick it into a bucket from the roof of the car it shot under the dashboard.

I daren't drive the car for at least 2 weeks.

Anyway, I digress.....

You can get a special spray which allegedly kills them called Kybosh. I filled the car with this stuff twice. The thing never returned but I was never convinced that it left !!!!

The other alternative is, like a sonar gadget. At the time I did a search on t'internet and this came up at one of the garden centre websites. It basically emits some kind of white noise/vibration kind of thing which the bugs don't like so they bugger off elsewhere. The only reason I didn't get one and try that is that it needs to be connected to the mains supply and I didn't have the facilities to do it (car was parked on a main road).

So, that's your options as far as I'm aware. Unless someone comes up with something else.

Good luck.

My mum used to have something that she put a match to in her green house to kill greenfly. It filled the greenhouse with smoke and killed them - I was thinking of something like that.

Just set fire to the seats using 5 litres of unleaded, they give off noxious fumes when set alight. Also, when the dashboard catches, it will be sure to finish them off.

HTH

My mum used to have something that she put a match to in her green house to kill greenfly. It filled the greenhouse with smoke and killed them - I was thinking of something like that.

You need to be careful with stuff like that, have you ever seen a car interior on fire? Scary stuff!

I know the thing you're on about though, it's like a firework type thing. In a car though you have lots of fabric and carpet that might absorb a lot of the toxic fumes that will return to haunt you at a later date. That's assuming the thing doesn't go up in flames.....

You could always phone a pest control company (see Yellow Pages for numbers), they may be able to recommend something.

The added benefit of my method is that by the time you manage to put it out, there will be nowhere left for the spiders to hide - gives you long term peace of mind

The added benefit of my method is that by the time you manage to put it out, there will be nowhere left for the spiders to hide - gives you long term peace of mind

And it will still smoke less than Jason's furby

Are they inside the car, or inside the engine bay/ bodywork??

There is an insecticide that you can spray inside your house (i have used it before). You spray it across doorways or anywhere else you think they will be crossing, and for up to a few weeks, it gives off some sort of fumes which kills all sorts of small insects. It is quite safe, and dries in after a few minutes.

Perhaps you could spray some of this around the engine bay/ wings/ footwell.

I bought the stuff in Tescos.

Also, if you spray it, leave the car doors closed and put the recirulate on for several minutes. that should get it round the car.

Good Luck

OK. Maybe the fuse lighting idea was a bad one Perhaps I can get something like those air-con refresher cannisters.......

The stuff for door sills etc. is called "raid" I've used it to get spiders in door mirrors before but it never seems to work with them :(

lol well you could get a greenhouse smoke candle, however you would need to put it on something heatproof like an ceramic mat, making sure there was nothing flamable on it, then let it off. The candles are not firework type things and just burn and smoke like a b**tch.

The smoke just fills the air with CO2 and CO so it isn't breathable hence you leave it in there for 10 minutes and all are dead.

You would have to let the neighbours know so they didn't call the fire brigade and make sure there was sod all you care about in the car. Then you would need to open all the windows and the roof to let it all out and the car would need a really good internal clean as I recon that would smell the car out a bit and coat the w/screen with ****.

Should work as long as the candle/cone doesn't set fire to anything.

Either that or get a pipe from the exhast of Jasons car and pump it into your car with nobody in it, carbon monoxide poison the spiders then clean the car hella good

If you were to use Jason's car I'd also stick a bit of a soot filter on :P Otherwise you'd end up having to scrape it off :P

Fill your car with sparrows,

Then wazz your cat in,

Borrow a dog,

Errmmm, this could get silly:rofl:

Fill your car with sparrows' date='

Then wazz your cat in,

Borrow a dog,

Errmmm, this could get silly:rofl:[/quote']

Do you mean this method........

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly,

I don't know why she swallowed a fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a spider,

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

I don't know why she swallowed the fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a bird,

How absurd! to swallow a bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

I don't know why she swallowed the fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cat,

Imagine that! to swallow a cat,

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

I don't know why she swallowed the fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a dog,

What a hog! to swallow a dog,

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

I don't know why she swallowed the fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a goat,

Just opened her throat! to swallow a goat,

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

I don't know why she swallowed the fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a cow,

I don't know how she swallowed a cow!

She swallowed the cow to catch the goat,

She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,

She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,

She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,

She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,

That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,

She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,

I don't know why she swallowed the fly,

Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a horse,

She's dead—of course!