DUDE! I am with you 110%. I feal exactly the same way as you towards spiders and would reacted just as you did. SO the only thing that came to mind was this. You saw him running along the pilar and the windown several times. I would lay some kind of trap there.... Perhaps some kind of spray? may stink the car up BUT YOU CAN CLEAN IT after the [][][][]er is DEAD. Just dont do anything stupid like spray raid down ur vents... that could be bad

 

Yeah, I hate when spiders get in my car.
Turn on the heat and crispify his ass......idk....good luck.

 

Turn on the heat and crispify his ass

I agree. Turn the heat all the way up and put the fan on bi level so you ensure full heat dispersal. Turn the fan on full so it might blow out the carcass.

 

i dont know how to fix it..but that was the greates story ever told on ff.com i sewar no bs

 

lol i can relate.. I hate spiders.. and mosquitos.. ugh.. i had this huge one flying all around in the car.. so my first reaction is to open the door and hope it goes out.. looking back it woulda been safer to open the window.. but hey.. it got out and nobody got hurt..
as for getting the spider out.. what about like a shop vac? stick it up against the vents and hope it sucks something..
theres some small spiders that like to reside behind my side mirrors.. i think i get them out only to walk thru a freakin web the next day.. hate it.. good luck with your spider problem!

 

awww man walking through spider webs is the worst! That shop vac idea seems pretty reasonable and may help with your allergies lol. I dont quite understand the masquito fear but bees is another one of mine.

 

Yeah i dont understand it either.. lol
Yes bees!! never had one in the car though.. wasps suck too...
funny thing is never been stung or had any bad past with any of them.. just freak me out..

 

That was one long story... but worth the read.
Not sure if you can get ahold of it, but an air compressor with a blower end on it down the vent might help.

Or do what loud suggested and "crispify his ass" lol

 

I think if you just run the heat on high it will take care of him, dry him right out into "instant spider". Course I do have to warn you that you'll end up with "spider dust" blowing out of your vents (lmao!)

 

I think that you should get about 5 gallons of gas and light that sucker on fire...lol


May not be cost effective...but you'll get the spider.....and a sweet video for youtube

 

hahaha [histerical]



hum...when i saw this thread i thought "spider" like "spyder"...i was expecting to see a focus convertable

...............never mind...im an idiot [screwy]

 

ya... i had one living in back of my driver side mirror... like in the summer when i'd leave the window cracked... that little prick would get inside and one day i caught em and tried to kill it but it took off back behind the mirror... it took seriously months to finally catch it off gaurd and yes i did burn the damn thing!!! probably the highlight of my day then cuz i really do not like spiders at all myself.

just my little story lol

 

yeah i had one in my passenger side mirror for months. One day it crawled into my car just as i was pulling up to my house and i literally jumped out of my car and ran into my house to make my dad kill it haha.
another time i was driving with my friend and a spider was crawling on the inside of my windshield and i asked her to kill it, so she reaches over to kill it and instead knocks it into my lap while im on the freeway! I [][][][][][]g booked it into a parking lot, jumped out of my car and danced around like an idiot for like 10 minutes trying to kill the damn thing. I never found it, but im sure my squirming killed that thing.

yeah man, [][][][][][]* spiders.

 

LOL, too funny. You can bomb it.(RAID sells bombs) Bombing will stink up the car a bit and make it undriveable for a lil while, but it will kill anything inside. Or like others said grab a shop vac or go to a car wash and suck the vents. YOur better off just bombing it. Need more advice lemme know.

 

i had a nest of the little bastards somewhere in my old truck, and one day pulling onto the highway, a big hairy one decided to rappel down from my sun visor, pausing halfway (I could have sworn it hissed), then perching himself on my steering wheel. I ended up putting that truck into a ditch while trying to kill it.
Never did figure out a way to kill them, but one hot summer day i found a good 20 of them scattered dead throughout the truck.

i say go park in the sun and hope for the best.

 

Ok, I know what happened to you. I had the same thing happen to me over the summer. I was in the walmart parking lot getting ready to put the groceries inside my car when I noticed a spider on the car. I killed it. Then I noticed another, and another, then another! They were everywhere! All over my car, on the ground around it, it was terrible! I didn't dare open the doors. I killed as many as I could. Friend said it must have been a wolf-spider. He said you can hit them and they'll go all over your car or something. None made it inside though.
UPDATE: Wow, I never thought I'd get so many responses. I really appreciate it. I got up this morning and went outside to the car. I decided I'd clean it out so that it'd be easier to see the stupid thing if it came out, that and maybe it'd starve. I had a ton of garbage (read:all the way up to the seat) on the floor on the passenger side. Cleaned it all out, nothing, no spider anywhere. At the same time I was cleaning I decided to turn on the car, close the vents, put the heat on high, and alternate between floor and defrost with the fan all the way up. I didn't find anything in the front seat, however, when I looked underneath the drivers seat I found a dead, dried up spider, quite similar to the one I saw last night. I wasn't too happy about that. That means this may have been happening longer than I realized. So i'm driving to school and guess what I see. No, not the spider, but a single, lone thread of um... web. guess where it was going. Just guess... go ahead, I'll give you a second........



Ok, anything? I'll just tell you. It was going straight to were i saw it disappear last night, drivers side windshield defrost vent. So what I need to know now is if it is possible for anything to stay inside the air system with it on full blast. I don't know where it goes either. As far as I know there is no rear floor vent. So that would just leave the front floor vents and the regular vents. I really need to know. That's all I got for now and again, thanks for all the support, glad to hear I'm not the only one. P.S. Wasps are the worst.

 

I have a friend like you, really fun to prank haha

 

A spider? Your kidding right? I mean was it on the very least poisonous? I mean jeez I find tarantulas outside where I live and had a black widow crawl across my leg in my work truck..... ok, I've had my fun..... I would say, just keep a can of bug spray in the car, and when it comes out again, spray him. I think that it would be the cleanest option.

Mouse

 

lol, dude I agree with you. this morning I was just like, screw it. It's a spider, if it comes out again, it's dead. He has to eventually. I mean the odds of me not seeing it again are pretty low. Just afraid of any eggs being laid. May they all burn in Hell.... Forever.

 

When I was working in a shop once i had a brown recluse crawl down my glove while moving a I beam that had been sitting there for a while, needless to say i grabbed the old acetlyne torch and burned him good

To get rid of a spider in you car...I would probably either set off a bug bomb inside the car, then after it has been sitting there for 4 hours, go on ahead and open all your doors and let it air out a long time, then take some of that carpet powder and put it all over the carpet of your car and vacuum it, and clean your seats and everything, then to top it off, start your car and run it with the ac on full blast to get all the fumes out of your ac system, you obviously get out of the car for this part, let it run for like 20 minutes while occasionally going back and changing where the air is coming out of.

Or if he is in your ac system, take a can of that engine degreaser, and clean your engine like the can says, after you start your car it will put the fumes into your ac for a while, but it probably wont kill the spider.

 

yeah there are rear vents, if you take your center council off they will run on the inside of the center council on either side, to the back middle of the car infront of the back seats and to the rear of the front seats

 

interesting. That is very close to the location I found what appeared to be a spider that had been dead for quite some time.

 

crispfying his ass wont help... spiders like heat... chill his ass.. Turn the AC on all the way UP and leave it for a while... Turn him into an icecube..

 

i had one drop infront of my face while driving on the highway and i absolutely HATE spiders... i made the GF hold the wheel and hand me a tissue, i reclined my seat back a bit and attacked with precision... i was scared... i hate spiders so much!

 

Wow I wish I would have never read this thread, now I'm going to be paranoid that theres spiders in my car. Spiders are the only thing that I am afraid of. I even shake my sheets every night and inspect around my bed to make sure there aren't any near me. But in all reality there are little spiders everywhere that we can't see, maybe even on our bodies right now as we all speak. I will pray for you Space and pray for the death of the spider.

 

its not just spyders you need to be afraid of. around here we have a huge tick problem. one time i found a good size tick crawling on my seat. i hate spyders but ticks freak me out worse.

 

spider dont bother me too much... but a snake.. you put a snake in my car and i sware i'll sell it... i wont even look at my car any more.

 

Me and my Brother had 2 snakes for pets, I had a king snake. I would have to say it was the most loyal and loving pet I've had lol.

 

well i know i have spider in the engine bay somewhere, i saw him jump in,lol. but i havent seen any webs. so maybe he fell out. but that fine, i dont mind spiders. or scorpions,hissing cocoroashes (so longs as the roach and scorpoin is caged) i have held them and played with them. and for the most part they just sat there. staring at me wit hthier multiple eyeys

 

Must be that time of year. SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME THIS MORNING! I missed your post or would have joined in...

I think Spring is knocking on our doorstep...

We live in the country and I have about a 1 hour commute in the morning. Doing my usual thing, driving with morning talk radio and watching the sunrise over the Blue Ridge.

As the sun starts to peek through the windshield, I reach up and grab my sunglasses. Inadvertently, I popped down the sunvisor just as I started down the windy stretch of the mountain...

Point of clarification.

I am pretty particular about my car. I'm not obsessive, but I keep it pretty straight.

....As the visor popped down, I noticed movement and then a tingly feeling.

A spider the size of a wombat fell onto my hand!!!

I am not phobic by any stretch of the imagination, but this thing scared the CRAP out of me! If it wasn't for the seatbelt, I probably would have been out the window...

Car dancing, me dancing, I finally calmed down enough to get the car straight. I am sure I put on quite a show for the rest of the commuting populace...

The worst part...it's still in the car. Somewhere....[paranoid]

This afternoon, I am getting into the car with THIS!

Let's see that little bastage try that stunt again...[thumb]

 

WOW! ROFL! Dude that is crazy! And that pic, no thank you! lol. And I can picture someone going 70 down the interstate, seeing a snake in the car, slamming on the brakes and jumping out while it's still moving! ROFL!

So there's been some developments. This afternoon I got back to my car after classes and I was determined to find that thing. I opened my driver's side door and started looking around. Nothing. So then I go to the passenger side door, open it up. Nothing. Then out of nowhere I see this thing bolt under the rubber lining by the dash. It was like, on the outside. Like with the door open, you've got your dash, then you've got the frame, and on the outside of the frame you've got that rubber. Well he was on the outside. I think I saw it crawl out and then under the rubber. There was a little bit of web there so I think it's been there before. So kinda freaked out i grabbed my keys and got ready for battle. I started poking on the rubber to draw it out and then the thing just flew out of there and onto the ground. It had a big light brown abdomen and the body was darker. I don't know what that is(praying not a brown recluse, though I think they have markings), but guys, this thing was ticked! It just sat there staring me down. I could see it, the thing was ready to go. I started stabbing at it, missing at first. Then I just got so furious, I was like "die nananana" and cut the sucker in half. Did I mention I don't usually cuss? Yea, I don't. But when I saw this thing stuff just came flying out of me. I have really got to pray about that. Anywho. So it was dead. I then decided to see what was in that big abdomen. I popped it open and all this green [][][][] came out. With that over with I began looking around for me. I let everything sit a minute to give anything else a chance to come out. Nothing. I then moved to the drivers side and pulled my seat all the way forward. I looked under it from the back and found the dead spider I told you about. Same size, same kind. I also figured out that the small cluster of white things in the windshield defrost vent (which were there the other night btw) were not food. They were eggs... at least I think. I didn't stop to ask questions, I just crushed away. So while I had the spider from the back seat on top of my trunk I see this tiny tiny yellow spider come running across the outside of my car, right next to the open passenger door on the left side. I crushed it as quick as I could with my hand. I've seen nothing else. So, the RUNDOWN. First I see the spider last night and it crawled down into my left most windshield defrost vent (you know, the one that is practically flush with the windshield and runs the length of it?). I then see those little white things there, but think nothing of it till now. Today, I open the door on the passenger side and a spider just like the one from last night comes running out. The reason this is important is cause i think it's entirely possible that the spider went from the left side of the car to the right by going through the vents. At the level I saw him there is a plastic panel that is kinda open. Like right by the door just where the glove box ends, those plastic things, very thin. So it could have somehow gone through there and then come out and did what i saw it do. I killed that one. That leaves me with a fair probability that that was indeed the spider from last night, which if so, would mean my probs could soon be over. HOWEVER, Since I did find that spider body on the floor behind the driver's seat that tells me that this may have been occurring much longer than I previously though. Couple that with the possibility of those white things in the defrost vent being eggs (which I destroyed) and that micro spider I killed running along right about the back left fender, and you could say my problem is just beginning. I don't know. I've got the evidence. I think there is enough to suggest egg laying has been done. The small on could have been a coincidence. I see them all time, not on my car, but you know. As far the "eggs", I don't know. Maybe, if those were indeed eggs, they were the only ones and were destroyed. Maybe they already hatched and I'm screwed. Maybe there are more eggs that have been lain within the bowels of the car, and I'm more screwed. Sorry for the oratory, but what do you guys think? Oh, I was thinking about stripping the interior and bombing the car but i've been told that i could get it down for me by car detailers. Any advice is welcome and if you've ever bombed your car please speak up. Even if I bombed it I still wouldn't be sure they'd all be dead. lolz. Thanks for all the hizzelp. You guys rock. SPACE

 

They're going to have to merge these threads?

Are you guys getting a group discount together on spiders??? [rofl]

 

Maybe...

Here's the little bastage's wanted poster...

 

dude that story had me lmao. its only funny to me bc it was a spider though. if it was a snake in my car, i would problly roll out while it was driving lol. i hate snakes.

 

hahahah