There is a spider web on the front corner of my car, and I've noticed that everytime I wash or drive it, overnight the spider has rebuilt the web.

I've left in peace as it seems to happy living in the over rider, and I was wondering who else's Mini serves as a home for a creature.

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One should never skimp on the zip ties.

I suppose as long as its on the out side and not inside with me then I wouldnt care muchly.....

Edit: although there are plenty of other places for the spider to live, and one of them shouldnt be making my mini look neglected (or something like that, was the only word I could think of)

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Talk is Cheap because Supply Exceeds Demand

Get rid of it - you'll be doing some routine maintenance one day and you'll put your hand down inside the engine and it'll bite it. I voted to get rid of it, I think that spider webs just make a car look neglected and un-loved.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

get rid of it kindly though. Just relocate it.

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I dewebbed my subframes yesterday. They were full of cobwebs and other crap that got stuck to the (fluff, leaves, bugs....etc.)

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1964 Morris 850, 1330 Supercharged - 81.8hp atws.
1975 Leyland Mini S 1100S powered - Nice and reliable.
1977 Leyland Mini LS - Project LS-T

I used to have a huntsman that lived in the gaps between the doors and the frames. He'd run across the outside of the windscreen until the wind got him, but he'd be back next time.

Tim

couple of times coming back from newcastle a spider dropped down from under the sunvisor infront of me. I hate spiders. do you know how stupid it looks trying to get a spider off of you, or your door while trying not to touch it????

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Talk is Cheap because Supply Exceeds Demand

A year or two back when we had the locust plague, we simply drove through kilometres of clouds of locusts at a time. Going to and coming back from our other farm 40 kilometres away meant at least two stops to clean the windscreen.

When we got back home all the chooks would run up to the car and peck of the encrusted locust bodies. The spiders would fall from the sky and wrap their mummifying threads around those still kicking. After the engorged chooks wandered off we would hose down the car as best we could and paid careful attention to the encrusted locusts in the engine bay. Especially those on and around the exhaust manifolds beciuase the second time they cook isn't as sweet smelling.

The reason we paid special attention to the engine bay was because if we didn't it would be criss crossed with spider webs in twenty four hours. Not so much as a result of the locusts but the other insects who gorged on the cooked locusts. Prime spider tucker.

Six months later when we first turneed on the heater and heater fan, we we had the car spitting decayed bits of locust and other insects straight into our faces.

Thanks Mike, you've put me right off my lunch...

i had a wolf spider crawl from outside the windscreen into the drivers side window and then under my sunvisor...... while i was on the freeway. and im afraid of spiders.
i just had to hold on till the end, quickly pulled over and punched the sun visor so hard im surprised i didnt pop the roof off.

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real men race downhill - keiichi tsuchiya

now if you all had a weber you wouldnt have a bug problem

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busier than a 0ne legged man in a butt kicking competion

Hows that ???????

Maybe the shear suction force created by the weber would suck all the bugs onto the filter and they would just pile up until you turned off the engine and the bugs fell on the firewall / hot exhaust / back of speedo - thus not allowing them to get into the heater

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

Get rid of the spider unless ita a daddy long legs. If its a daddy long legs it'll keep the other spiders away and it cant actually bite you. But i HATE Spiders, so the slightest sing of one and its gone

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Ability is what you're capable of doing...
Motivation determines what you do...
Attitude determines how well you do it.

Get rid of them... I had a lady almost kill me when a spider that was living in her car came out... she was going 90km/h at the time!

I also know a friend who jumped across onto the driver causing them to lose control when she saw a huntsman.

Gotta think of these dangers

I just got rid of some MASSIVE (I MEAN MAAAASSSSSIIIIIVVVVVEEEE) Redbacks from mine.
Never in my whole life have I seen such big redbacks.
Seriously, without exaggeration... one had a BODY the size of a 10c peice!!! I sprayed it, then crushed it under my boot and I felt serious pressure before it went crunch!

Man, I hate Redbacks... only good ones are straigh through fireglass packed ones

Peter.

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