Friday night I went to house warming party, new subdivision, had to park in the grass. I wake up the next morning to see ants all over my car! I spent a good part of four hours off an on that day, and several since, walking around my car and smashing them with my finger. I don't want to spray bug spray on the paint and don't want to bomb it, what can I do if anything, other than keep smashing them and hope I kill them out? Between my brother and myself, within the last few days, have killed over 400 ants (probably more). Anyone been through this before? I live in Florida, don't think they are fire ants, just regular ants.

I have no idea where they are hiding out, not in the trunk, or in the car, or under the hood. Where can they be? It's driving me crazy. I can go out to my car at any given time and find 20 visible ants to squash!

Please help! It's really bugging me! (You knew that line was coming!).

 

I have an idea. Park your car in a garage and leave the top down, then bomb the garage.

 

Won't the inside of my car smell like poison forever then?

 

This same thing happened to my girlfriend's Eclipse back in the summer. We got some ant spray from Wal-Mart and sprayed in it and it killed them all. The smell was there for only like 2 days after.

 

I think that the bombing the garage idea would work. The smell should come out if you leave your car outside on a sunny day with the top down. The ants are probably lurking behine the carpet and other panels you can't get to. Hope they don't decide to nest.
Good luck

 

bought this old Mercedes a while back........it was just full of ants...........took an overly large car cover which went to the ground on all sides..........used one of those aeorosol can bombs on the ground under the car...............waited a couple of hours............left car open for the next few days.........all better...........

greybeard

 

Find a freeway and DRIVE LIKE HELL. . strong wind = ants fall off.

 

An old trick is to mix molasses and yeast...the ants eat it up, take it to the queen and the yeast kills the cranky 'ol bitch. I did it once and since then (about 4 mos ago) I haven't seen one ant...can't say for sure if it was the yeast or not, but they're gone!

 

put candy or sweet stuff few feet next to your car and hope all ants would move over to that area and drive off your car

 

buy a new house and move