shadou

Ok. This may sound funny to a lot of people that may read this thread but I have a slight problem here. Not sure if anyone else has ever experienced this or not, but as I was cleaning up my beautiful Max tonight, I caught something moving in the corner of my eye. I look down and what do I see? A damn roach coming out of my air vent. I wanted to kill this thing as fast as possible so he doesn't go running back into my vents and make more roaches so I grab the closest thing to bug spray that I had- a can of WD-40. Well, must have drove this roach wild because the thing started dancing all around in circles and while I was having fun laughing at it, I realized that he just might run back into my vents. So I kill it. Thought that was the end of the story but no. I get into my car, start driving away and another damn roach rears it's ugly head at me as he sits right outside my air vents on my dashboard. I slammed on the brakes (I was in a parking garage), put the car in park, and kill the SOB. That was two that I killed and I wonder how many more there are inside my year old baby. If I eat in my car, I always clean up any messes I make and I vacuum my car out almost every other day. Doesn't make me feel so good driving my car at night when every single shadow I see, I'll think it's a roach. Anyone ever experience this? I live in Hawaii so maybe it's just a problem out here. Any advice as what to do (short of spraying bug spray in my air vents) would be great! Thanks.

Shadou

NickStam

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wow....fumigate the car?

shadou

Can you just imagine? I call up these household people that spray homes for bugs and tell them that my car needs to be fumigated? What would that do to the interior? Those guys would die laughing.

Shadou

Sonic

Gut the dash and HVAC system. I wouldn't actually fumigate the whole car until those are out of the car and cleaned...

NickStam

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i've never heard of roaches in the car. it's bizzare.

Greg's2kGLE

That that is weird. If something was crawling out of my vents I would $hit my pants.

Frank Fontaine

Is there any food in your car? Not really sure why they're there. Are there roaches anyplace that you park this vehicle?

I think you should look into dismantling the vent system, because I really don't think you can get rid of them. You don't want to put chemicals into your vent system, my *** you and the occupants have to breathe from it!

My folks once had a 80's Toyota Camry and *no joke* mice stored acorns in the air cleaner box. Obviously they could not get past the air cleaner so we'd have to open it up now and then and take the acorns out.

thebigsadler

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a roach?? ahh geez.. you know those things lay like 4000 eggs. sorry. no really tho, i would say take everything apart or call the orkan man

sinewave

How about sticking some of those roach motels under the front seats? I think they have bait in them, so it would attract them out of the vents.

TintDaMax

Bug bomb in the car!

Jon91SE

How big was it? I live in FL and roaches are a pain in the ***, one of those suckers can lay and egg with like 100 babies! :eek
unless theres a damp place for them to be living in your car i doubt you will see them anymore, unless they layed an egg

NightRider

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One thing about roaches, once you see one, there's about a million of them in hiding. Fumigation is one way, but you might just have to deal with it and give your car a good cleaning, then don't eat in it for awhile. Starve them to death.

2k1GrayMaxSE

The only roach I ever had in a car was in the ashtray....

Jon91SE

u a pothead focker

deezo

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I got into Medic's car today and he has a spiderweb on his door.

shadou

Ha, ha! Wrong kind of roach! It's the one that has legs and crawls.

shadou

I about did when I first saw the roach. Driving at night, dark tinted windows, and every shadow I see makes me think I'm seeing another roach crawl out of the vents.

shadou

It was the small kind of roach but still, I probably have a family living in my car about now. Before you know it, I'll be seeing roaches everyday. Lets just hope that they didn't lay any eggs.

Shadou