Stephen Leak Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 At last, my new Fiesta has a full complement of little spiders, living in each door mirror. As in previous cars, the nearside one is called Incy and the offside one is called Wincy. However, I do know of a Scottish Mondeo owner, who calls his Robert and Bruce. We should think ourselves lucky. In Australia, the poisonous Funnel Web spider has, with the demise of the outside toilet, started living under the sun visors of cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katana1 Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 At last, my new Fiesta has a full complement of little spiders, living in each door mirror. As in previous cars, the nearside one is called Incy and the offside one is called Wincy. However, I do know of a Scottish Mondeo owner, who calls his Robert and Bruce. We should think ourselves lucky. In Australia, the poisonous Funnel Web spider has, with the demise of the outside toilet, started living under the sun visors of cars. Yes indeed those little buggers made a home in my mirrors too.as you mentioned we are very lucky not to have anything poisonous here. I've name mine jeesus --as that's what I say every morning when I see the size of the web.Good travelling companions --unlike the wife they don't tell you that you are going too fast or took the wrong route :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al J Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 And totally impervious to extremes of temperature, jetwashes, etc. Must have been taking advice from the cockroaches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimasterlincoln Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 I've had a door mirror spider for a few months now, but I've never seen him only his webs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flic Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 I too have a door-mirror-dwelling friend! His name is Gary, I hadn't seen him for a while but he appears to have moved back in! When washing my car a few weeks ago I even had the pleasure of meeting him, I hope he wasn't offended by the screams. I recently acquired a spoiler-spider, but I don't know him well enough to be on first name terms yet :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyman114 Posted October 1, 2010 Share Posted October 1, 2010 for those of you wishing to evict the little critters, now is a good time to collect a conker or two....slice them and place behind the mirror...works better than the baliffs :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Focus_ST-3 Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 There is a spider living in my car too! I didnt see it for a few days and then it re-appeared, I think it lives in the wheel arch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnH Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 haha reading this made me crease up :D but anyways i have never had mirror dwelling spiders but i did, what i like to call, big mo fo who lived in the gap on the inside of the windscreen at the very top, in the pug. it wouldnt be that bad if i dont suffer from serious arakniphobia (or how ever you spell it), and this one liked to jump on you when he is on the car ceiling or randomly shoot a web at you...things got violent very very quickly...He once managed to get back in after a i flicked him out of the window on the a1 near durham, not sure how but it was defo the same one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flic Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 for those of you wishing to evict the little critters, now is a good time to collect a conker or two....slice them and place behind the mirror...works better than the baliffs :D But then you have the issue of a rotten, smelly piece of conker in your wing mirror? Not sure which is worse really. Sometimes I do quite like the pretty webs Gary leaves me on a frosty winter's morning, glistening in the sun. I almost feel bad destroying them everyday, alsmot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calmcdermott Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I dont have one in the mirrors but some how one got inside my car and made a lovely web across the dashboard. I only left the car for 8 hours whilst I was at work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin446 Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Mirror spiders must one the busiest beasties around, they produce new webs with alarming speed,one day after collection there it was, a new web. My Honda doesn't have a spider, is it because she lives in the garage and the spider has a better choice of places to do his thing.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmurray01 Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Yep spiders seem to love the MK4 Fiesta! However they never touch the Rover 216! Maybe they don't like the electrics in the Rover's mirrors! Fiesta has manual mirrors so more room for them I guess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev the Rev Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Yep , I too have d.m spiders , they return with every wash , I guess it's like a mobile home for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H3lly Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 How the hell do they manage to hold on while traveling at 120kph? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazjs Posted November 7, 2010 Share Posted November 7, 2010 Burn them with some APC :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Leak Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 How the hell do they manage to hold on while traveling at 120kph? They do have 8 legs. And spider silk is very sticky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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