Scirocco Central

What is it with them?
How do they get up there!

I cleaned the car saturday and got rid of a web covering the whole of the drivers mirror. I wonder why they like it in there so much.

A couple of years ago I was driving to work and there was a bee caught in the web of my mirror on the Puma. The next 15 mins, while I was sat in traffic, was a titanic struggle as the bee tried to escape and the spider waited its chance to get in for the killer bite. The bee eventually managed to break free and the chance of breakfast was gone!

dude, you have to drive more often ...

i know exactly what you mean. It only seems to be the passenger's side wing mirror though for some reason!
i drive mine everyday and i use the electric mirror things... no clue why the buggers keep appearing!

I always find they take up residence on the non-sunny side wing mirror pod.

They fly in on a thread of their silk. Had one cheeky one board a train last week before me by that method.

If you catch them and turn them over you'll find that there is actually a VW part number stamped on their belly - every new VW is supplied with one. I even heard a rumour that in the German Scirocco accesory brochure you can get a premium edition which has 'Scirocco' on its back...

Deacon

Whoah! So I am not the only person with one in the wing mirror. Every morning I wake up and there is a new web on the drivers mirror...!! Weird!

Ditto to all the above. I also have one that lives somewhere inside my car and builds webs when I'm at work. It's amazing what a webby mess the little bugger can make in 7-8 hours!

jmn82 wrote:Ditto to all the above. I also have one that lives somewhere inside my car and builds webs when I'm at work. It's amazing what a webby mess the little bugger can make in 7-8 hours!

get a hoover in the nooks & cranies jmn82 that will get him!

Years ago I had a spider living inside my car and I had to turn off the interior ultrasonic sensors to stop the little bugger setting off the alarm during the night.

I was well please when I finally managed to track him down (as were the neighbours)

Deacon wrote:If you catch them and turn them over you'll find that there is actually a VW part number stamped on their belly - every new VW is supplied with one. I even heard a rumour that in the German Scirocco accesory brochure you can get a premium edition which has 'Scirocco' on its back...

Deacon

You actually made me laugh out loud!!

trix wrote:

jmn82 wrote:Ditto to all the above. I also have one that lives somewhere inside my car and builds webs when I'm at work. It's amazing what a webby mess the little bugger can make in 7-8 hours!

get a hoover in the nooks & cranies jmn82 that will get him!

trust trix to give us all some house keeping tips!
i've got some ironing for you to do if you fancy it?
can't beat a bit of chauvanism

i've warned you 'net i'm not going to over here aswell pat..

I got one living in each mirror.
Seems they moved in real soon after I got the car. I've got a suspicion they are homing spiders that used to live in my pug.
It's amazing how the little blighters seem to survive the washings it gets too.

Must be sabotage by SciroccoNET

rako wrote:Must be sabotage by SciroccoNET

that made me lol

rako wrote:Must be sabotage by SciroccoNET

we love them regardless rako, we are all scirocco owners or wanna be owners at the end of the day. pat just likes winding me up wherever he can

washed my car today and found a little blighter hanging on for dear life. Didn't have the heart to spoil his fun though. I love being in the roc so i guessed so did he! even if the orange mirrors didn't put him off.

Deacon - you made me laugh too.

I had one in my drivers side mirror. I think they definitely live inside behind the mirror. I managed to flick one off into the road (miles away from home) when it was out building its web. However, a new web seems to have been built within a couple of days, so there must be a waiting list for the mirror slot...

Maybe there's something that can be bought and applied to the mirror to deter them from nesting there?

trix wrote:

rako wrote:Must be sabotage by SciroccoNET

we love them regardless rako, we are all scirocco owners or wanna be owners at the end of the day. pat just likes winding me up wherever he can

how did you know?! sooo astute
central or net, its all the same gravy.
if it were up to me, there would just be one big forum... would save me having to double post when i have a serious technical question.

pat15312 wrote:

trix wrote:

rako wrote:Must be sabotage by SciroccoNET

we love them regardless rako, we are all scirocco owners or wanna be owners at the end of the day. pat just likes winding me up wherever he can

how did you know?! sooo astute
central or net, its all the same gravy.
if it were up to me, there would just be one big forum... would save me having to double post when i have a serious technical question.

Hear hear.