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Spiders in door mirrors

mjt
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Has anyone found a way to deter spiders from taking up residence inside the door mirrors? I'm constanly having to clear cobwebs from the mirrors but the spiders, being very industrious creatures, just construct new ones by the next day. The only way I've found to get temporary relief from this chore is to spray fly killer into the gap between mirror and housing, which is a bit messy. This works for a while until another one takes up residence. What are other members experiences?

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    Not only do I have webs on door mirrors, they also live in the dash board somewhere, cobwebs over vents and any convenient (to a spider !) nook and cranny !

    I do not have a solution either, and do not want to go the Cane Toad route!

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    In a previous car, during winter to stop my mirrors icing up, I use to slip a rubber glove over each mirror at night, & remove in morning. I have no idea if that would work with spiders 😂

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    What I've done is take the mirror covers off and heavily blast the inside with fly spray, build up the white spray everywhere but keep it away from electrics, coat it on the inside of the mirror cover too, refit the covers......Ours stay spider free for months.

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    Can't you simply put up a sign?? 😁

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    Ha ha! 🤣

    Funny how this cropped up this week, the last two mornings I've gone out to the car to go to work I've noticed that my resident wing mirror spider has been extra busy decorating the car for Halloween!

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    I regularly get this on my car mirrors.

    Unrelated, but last weekend the Sky satellite tv stopped working, poor or no signal showing in signal test mode. Got the ladder out, and when I got up to the dish, the plastic cover on the signal collector (LNB) had broken up, and a family of spiders were in residence! So, I had earache from my wife until a replacement turned up & I got back up the ladder to fix it. 

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    Thinking about this I suddenly remembered an aerosol spay that's supposed to stop spiders from infesting CCTV cameras. I've actually got some but unfortunately it's on our boat 1½ hours away :sad:

    This is the stuff. Must be worth a try.

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