I was parked at work yesterday for 9 hours. When i came back to my car, and opened up the door, there were thousands of ants all over the place in the interior.

So i spent the next hour or so cleaning/pinching the ants out of there.

Went home, vacuumed the car out.

This morning, there were still lines of ants in there. I spent some more time cleaning them out.

Its gonna take some time to get them completely out. They were under the floormats, in the engine bay, in the trunk, all over the outside of the car.

Sucks!!! :mad

A guy here is parked in the same spot that i was in yesterday, and his car is covered. I told him to move it, but he's ignoring me. He's gonna be sorry when he gets back in it. :eek:

that does suck. i have no advice for ant removal



meet him at his car after work and take pics

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords!
http://www.student.gsu.edu/~jhannay1/hailants.jpg

:lol

Put them on Ant Birth Control...

http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/images/6003.jpg

:devillook

;)

Ammonia, ammonia, ammonia. Wipes the trail clean. Most cleaning products will still leave the little bastards scent behind, and they just keep following it. Smells like crap at first, but evaps pretty quickly...

I've never heard of a situation like this. Crazy...

my friends car got attacked by ants, we just took ant spray and sprayed it along the door jambs and it killed them all off...

I was talking to the service department today, and they said that 3 customers returned today complaining that their cars were full of ants.

Actually, another salesperson today told me about a customer who had the same problem last year, and to this day, he STILL has ants in his car. Apparently, they have gotten between the floorpans and the carpet, and has been bitten for an entire year off and on. I'm not sure how true that is, but if it is true... :eek:

Q -- The flowerbed next to our driveway is loaded with ants. When I water, they run all around the area for a while. Then they go back home after the water has had time to sink in. About three weeks ago a bunch of them climbed into my husband's car, which was parked in the driveway.

We thought that they would leave the car if they didn't find any food. They haven't. He insists that there hasn't been any food for them to find -- up until yesterday, when he left a sweet roll on the seat when he went to a meeting. When he got back it was covered with ants.

Other than making sure that he leaves no food in the car, do you have any suggestions?

A: All he has to do is park the car somewhere else for a little while. The ants in the car can't live if they are not in contact with their colony. Adult ants are unable to swallow and digest solid food. They have to take it back to the colony where the larvae digest the solid food and regurgitate it back in liquid form to the adults.

If your husband parks the car away from the nest, the ants in the car will ultimately starve to death.

that happned to me once, the thing that caused it was an unwraped pepermint

Happened in my Nissan when it was sitting there for a few weeks being a jackstand queen.

I really didn't have much of an interior and definitely no food, so I just threw a whole pack of ant packs in there. About a week later they were all gone.

I did find a huge colony of them trying to build a nest up by the top of the hatch. I sprayed those bastards with ant killer and committed mass genocide on their whole colony. Actually felt pretty good since they were invading my car. It was annoying to pull out on an open road, boost it up to 15 psi and notice there were ants biting my feet then swerving like an idiot trying to slap them off.

I had a similar problem but I got rid of it by putting those boxes Terminix and such companies put inside your home. It's a small box with something in the middle. When ants go in there they get stuck and eventually die. Don't know the exact name of those boxes but you can probably call up Terminix and ask them the name of those things.

After leaving about 4 boxes in my car for a week, all the ants died.

Well I now have 10 traps in my car from 2 different brands of ant killers. 6 are of the liquid variety, and 4 are hard bait.

For now, I'm just driving one of the A6's that we have in stock. Every once in a while, its nice to work at a car dealership.

I'd buy an anteater and let it loose in my car

I`m grew up in L.A. (Lower Alabama) and we have these things called sugar ants, originally from Argentina (Ants Article (http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2003-02-27/news.asp) . I used to leave my car parked in four little metal "dishes" I welded together which were filled with water, which effectively made a barrier the ants could not cross; if you don`t do something like this down there, you are inviting disaster, although everybody really doesn`t get too much upset if their car "just" gets infested with sugar ants; fire ants are the much larger worry, especially after a good rain :mad .
My guess is that all you guys are noticing these problems due to all the rain we have had recently, which has pushed all kinds of critters out of their holes and into our lives.
Also, if you want to break their trail without using amonia, any strong perfume ( not cologne or aftershave, but perfume; the cheap stuff does not contain enough scent) will do the same thing. Better to smell like Channel than amonia IMO.

Better to smell like Channel than amonia IMO.

Better to smell like Chanel then Channel too! :eek:

j/k