http://forums.i-club.com/forums/showthread...threadid=211693

This is a major problem I hope I never come across!

 

seriously, you should look at the i-club members' comments. they are so freakin' funny.

 

Heehee!

 

that was an entertaining read....

i hate spiders

 

The only spiders I would kill are small ones. I can't believe the dangerous encounters these scooby owners have had. The biggest spider I've encountered was a 5 inch diameter (legs spread) tarantula when I lived in an apartment. I told my mom there was really a tarantula but she didn't believe me. My dad saw the spider and swept it out with a broom!

After reading the thread, I almost laughed my head off!

 

HAHAHA,

All those scooby guy's seem to have the weirdest problems! Spiders, Glass transmissions, and STi lust!



Check this out, my own little BLACK WIDOW STORY!

My 1990 Mitsu Eclipse GSX is my race car, I only track it, no street usage @ all. I have no room in the condo complex I live in to store it, so it get's stored up @ Grandma's!

Anyway, she lives way out in the sticks to put it mildly, no city folk out there, just horses, snakes, rocks, and SPIDERS

Anyway, the GSX will stay there for months @ a time without being touched. One fine day about 6 months ago, I decided to go and clean her up. I open the engine compartment and low and behold! A PREGO Black Widow has decided that my engine compartment is her new home

I quickly try and catch her (I'm a conservationist ;-), she decides I'm an a$$ and runs underneath my tranny! I say "Screw this, I'm not letting old momma hour glass raise her family in my race car". I start up the car, run it real good down some backroads, problem solved! Wrong

I come back the next day, open up the hood, guess who's there laughing her FAT PREGNANT A$$ OFF?! This focken spider is immortal!! I drove my car like it was stolen to rid her of my engine compartment, talk about a species of survivalists! I knew instantly that more appropriate measures needed to be taken. So I got some supposedly really nasty "Kill anything and everything bug spray". I sprayed this crap right on her, all in the engine compartment, her web, everywhere. Problem solved! NOT!!

@ this point I was so pissed, I decided to be EXTREMELY careful (Don't try this @ home folks) and try and catch her irritating a$$. This whole thing lasted 2 weeks, everytime I would go and try and catch her she was too smart. She would position herself in extremely difficult areas to reach. TALK ABOUT FAST!! Momma widows can move!! Anyway, she got tired of playing with me and I never saw her again. Problem solved, finally!! Doh!!!!!!!!!!! Not!

I ended up selling the car, the rear main needed replacement. The gent who bought it replaced the seal right after he bought off of me. He calls up right after, "DUDE, I FOUND 4 FOCKING BLACK WIDOWS IN THE TRANNY!!" Needless to say, , I said opps, sorry! Thank G_d know one got bit. I warned the dude, but a gear head will stop @ nothing to attain nirvana...

 

Biggest tarantula I have ever seen is a bird-eater. Thing was a monster. They can have arm to arm spans of up to 25 inches. Things are freaky to hold, they look like they could eat your hand right off your arm.

Thanks for trying to save the black widow though, but in all contexts your better off just flushing them right out of your car with a gentle stream of water.

 

Water was not an option, I am EXTREMELY paranoid of any water in my engine compartment.

I heard about a guy with a Ferrari that got his engine steam cleaned, heard the car was NEVER the same afterwords.

I wanted to use a gentle stream, just couldn't take the chance...

 

At least they aren't camel spiders

edit: never mind, someone on i-club already posted that! Are these things really that well known now?

 

camel spider rumors stating they willl jump on your face is BS as i-club members said