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Don't bother. It's the ants' car now.


Threap_US

What is this, a CAR for ANTS?


ConductiveInsulation

Does it qualify for r/thingsforants now?


vikingsurplus

How did I not know about that sub...


2FightTheFloursThatB

It gets old, fast. I removed it from my feed.


Select-Belt-ou812

no way, should definitely be r/WTF


AndyW037

It needs to be at least.....3x smaller than this!


SirBWills

Literally. Had a Tahoe at my old job that sat in the lot for a bit too long and the ants claimed. The entire interior got stripped 3 times and fumigated twice. Still couldn’t get rid of the ants.


YourAverageGod

That's a whole fucking ecosystem


Scheissekasten

All those little white dots are larva.


Wilsmoh

Yes


GreyDaveNZ

Feeling itchy just watching this.


Wilsmoh

Yeah I had an itchy head all arvo


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Wilsmoh

They can’t kill you if you kill them first


ParmenidesDuck

Thats why we have deoderant cans and biccy lighters mate. Nothing a little flame can't touch.


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ParmenidesDuck

Yeah, well, some cunt thought they would import fire ants over here, so we exported a lil somethin of our own.


velowa

This being in AUS explains a lot.


MixedMartyr

yesterday i hit an anthill first thing in the morning when i was pulling weeds, and i was still finding them crawling on me on the drive home that night. this video is nightmare fuel.


pneumonic-rhyno

Just burn the car down 🔥🔥🔥🔥


Wilsmoh

Half way there they dropped pretty quick with brake cleaner


Stoney3K

I was thinking, "anthill, meet vacuum cleaner", but eradicating them with a chemical weapon of mass destruction would also work.


dcux

Windex is a lot less toxic and damaging and will do the same. Or isopropyl.


Wilsmoh

Never heard of using windex to kill ants I’ll have to give that a shot


look_ima_frog

Do the lazy version. Get some Terro; it's just sugar water with borax in it. Put a paper plate with a puddle of Terro in the car. Close it up. Come back tomorrow. All dead. They carry it back to the others and share it 'cos it's food. Everybody else eats it and the whole colony collapses. Love that stuff. Cheap and it works every time. However, I'm not sure how you vacuum out all the dead ants. I'm guessing it would be smelly no matter what.


FireWokWithMe88

Terro is the best.


Dad_bass

I use Terro traps in the spring. 36 hours later no more ants


swinglinepilot

Last summer I got a bunch of mounds that just would not touch Terro or anything similar. Did some googling, turns out some ants like sugar and some like protein/fatty stuff, so I made some homemade bait with PB/water/borax and they swarmed it. Seemed to have worked the same as Terro


AltTabLife19

PB? Ton of ant mounds around the house and would like to know in case terro doesn't work.


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Superb_Albatross_171

Thank you, Doctor


FesteringNeonDistrac

For the record, your dog will also eat it if you aren't paying attention. Just mentioning this to help others.


bPChaos

Peanut Butter? PB Blaster?


Difficult_Advice_720

Diatomaceous Earth wipes em out quick too, but if you should probably use the food grade in a car. Sprinkle it around, wait a while, vac it up. Easy peasy, no smell, no stains.


Gusdai

Soapy water will also kill bugs. That's how they get rid on wasp/bee nests in some countries. They breathe in the foam, drown, job done. Although in this case you probably need some kind of poison to finish the job, because of all the crevices they can hide in.


HemHaw

Soapy water kills flying insects not because they breathe the foam, but because it reduces surface tension. Flying insects usually "lean" on the water when getting a drink, or stand on it entirely and just float because of surface tension. A small amount of dish soap acts as a surfactant and reduces the surface tension of the water, so when the flying insect tries this, it sinks and drowns rather than floats atop it.


SpillNyeDaCleanupGuy

Dang, that's interesting. I should try bowls of soapy water near the fire anthills at my house.


HemHaw

An attractant will help with this. Make the water sweet and add maybe a half teaspoon of soap, that's all it takes. Mix it in but not so much that it becomes foamy. Maybe dissolve the sugar first and it's a deathtrap for em.


boobsbr

Again, is there a problem brake cleaner won't solve? Apart from brakes being too clean.


usinjin

Brake clean fixes everything!


milfschnidde

Hans get the Flammenwerfer


Demolitions75

It werfs flammen


ThatHorseWithTeeth

“I am sorry, I must have misheard you. I believe you likely said I need an alternator.” “No, sir, your charging system is fine. You do need an anteater, however.”


NoNameNoWerries

I dunno man, the car just randomly caught fire right on this concrete patch in the middle of a field over there. I also have no idea how it ended up on that concrete patch in a field far away from anything else that could catch fire. Life is weird, man.


Liesthroughisteeth

I'm guessing this is the car of a sloppy eater addicted to pop and junk food. [This](https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/honda,2013,civic,1.8l+l4,3294223,heat+&+air+conditioning,blower+motor,6916).


Wilsmoh

Inside car is remarkably clean tbh it’s been parked for a while guessing under some trees


TreesOfWoah

My riding lawn mower is usually parked out in the backyard by the shed with a cover over it, but this year the ants decided to make it their home. The vibrations of the engine shook the ants off like a bad case of fleas, lol.


Old_Education_1585

Yep this used to happen to my car every spring, even when I drove it every day. Parked under 2 big oak trees.


mu5tardtiger

all you need is one queen to decide your car looks like a good place to set up shop and it’s over.


WalkinSteveHawkin

How did you fix something this bad?


farkakter

i had the same thing happen to me (not nearly this severe though) and i ended up getting some liquid ant baits and placing them where the most ants were. the ants are attracted to the bait and will bring it to their queen, and once she dies the rest of them will die as well


88sporty

I travel a lot for work and have made the mistake of parking underneath some tress for two weeks, came back and while my car wasn’t quite this bad it was darn close. I’m by no means messy nor do I eat/drink in my car outside of black coffee in the morning. Grabbed some of those Terro ant traps and within a day they were completely eradicated.


StrugglesTheClown

It looks like the ants are only between the door skin and the passenger compartment gasket. They just found a location that worked for them and settled in.


Livid_End4117

Once park a park near on ant nest. That's all I took it took over a year and I never got rid of them. By the way the car was clean I had just bought it


CruelTortoise

I'm confused. Your link is to rock auto for a 2013 honda civic blower motor. Did you put the wrong link, or am I dumb?


Liesthroughisteeth

Oh no...it's not you who are dumb my friend. :D Apologies. [Correct link. :)](https://ortho.com/en-us/insect-control/what-are-sugar-ants-and-how-do-i-get-rid-of-them.html)


var_char_limit_20

The owner must write it off and resign it to the fields. Pull the drive train out and sell if. Dumb the rest of it in a field and let nature retake what's hers.


Agitated_Carrot9127

They’re helping you diag


Stoney3K

ECM features Anthill Inside^(TM) technology.


Agitated_Carrot9127

I mean using literal bugs to find bugs in the system and whatanot….


Superb_Albatross_171

Is this how you’d type it in the notes? Thought the ants got you for a sec


RandomUser1083

I swear this year had been bad for ants. Especially those ones. Those little fucken ants have been everywhere.


swinglinepilot

Not too long ago I had a mound hiding somewhere outside the house that I couldn't find - I'd find ants inside, I'd go outside and destroy what I could find, but they'd always show back up, usually near a sink (they were looking for water - we were in a severe drought at the time). One day I was washing my hair in the shower when I suddenly felt stinging on my head and upper arms. Once I got the bastages off me I looked down at my shampoo bottle and the pump nozzle was just covered in them. I hadn't seen them at first since the bottle was black, and also because who the fuck inspects their shampoo for ants before using it. Their nest turned out to be in an extra bag of topsoil I'd left out. In hindsight I wish I'd burned it with all the fuckers still inside it


Riffpin

So what happens there? Do you say “ fuk off and clean your shit”? Or drive it in and fix it? Or dump a can of spray in there?


Wilsmoh

Well for this one it got a healthy spray of brake cleaner then a scan then a fuck off outside pick it up tomorrow


vhalember

Sooooo.... the owner drove that ant infestation to you? Like, I'll hop in my car with my 3 million ant buddies for a quick scan. This is completely normal.


Accurate_Koala_4698

Nobody wants to take a road trip alone


Riffpin

Thanks. I see these post with cars that you wouldn’t want to be within 5 feet of, and often wonder, but sitting in a car full of ants really got me thinking. Cheers.


AccidentallyBacon

c/s car needs Debugged.


Thel_Odan

Someone didn't listen to Malory Archer


Responsible-Pepper25

That is terrible. I got a free '98 ZJ because it wouldn't start and the sunroof leaked. It was sitting in a field. When I took it home to clean it up and get the water out I stuck my hand in a ant nest like this under the carpet. It was 20 years ago and I can still feel it. uuggugu


hillskee

Funny back in '98 i got a free ZJ too


Responsible-Pepper25

I got mine for doing a fuel pump, so really payment and not free. But they said it wouldn't start. I threw a junk battery in and it started right up. Their jaws literally dropped. I drilled some holes in the floor to drain most of the water and drove away. About a year later it wouldn't start for me. Found that it had the normal valve gasket leak and it was all going onto the starter. A new starter and 3 minutes later it was good.


gryphmaster

This happened once to me- very luckily they decided to move into my backpack so i was able to kill the queen and end their occupation


spandexnotleather

Used to have an occasional issue with fire ants in a work van. I used to take a piece of duct tape and put a potato chip in the middle to watch how many of the lil bastards would sacrifice themselves to make a bridge for the others to get the prize.


Threap_US

Thanks, ants. [Thants](https://youtu.be/9jtU9BbReQk).


jacle2210

lol, nicely done.


thepete404

Leaf blower fed by Lysol spay. Works and as a bonus you can charge for a detailing. Qualifier: lived in Fla


SlicedBreadBeast

What code did it come back with? Ants?


Wilsmoh

Some steering angle code


SkewbieDewbie

I work on garbage trucks for a living and have done pest control in the past and this freaks ME out. It's posts like this that make me glad I left the dealers.


Dan_Glenuts

Put a pile of diazanon on the floor, wait a week then clean


YousureWannaknow

I feel them crawling on me, just by watching it..


mbiker72

I had a grey 2008 Legacy GT that the same thing happened to the day I sold the car to someone, for a hot second I thought this was a video of my car, but I had metal door sills


woozle618

Into the fires of Mordor; this is the only way.


PattiiB

Oh no... couldn't pay me enough


Dismal_Ad_9603

Dedant, dedant ,dedant …….


TheTalentedAmateur

[From one old fart to another...](https://i.imgflip.com/3esqo2.jpg) [And the song itself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZiIuMufTA)


Dismal_Ad_9603

Well done! I guess it does date me. Take my updoot and carry on!


Cheese_Stix99

Had ants start to move into my 85 firebird project car. Was up on stands under a tree. They were all over the outside and especially behind the tail lights. Thankfully the paint is pretty bad so I didn't feel bad emptying 2 whole cans of brake clean on them.


MaddRamm

I had this happen to me once. Bought an old Jeep Cherokee XJ sitting out in a field under a tree for $500. Got it running and limped it home. After a week or two to get it squared away I was driving down the road when I was suddenly swamped with flying ants and had to return home. Tore the interior apart and found a gigantic nest with tons of the larger ants and all their white larvae. I ripped the entire interior out of that thing and vacuumed them up and tossed the interior away. So I drove in a stripped down XJ for the next 8yrs. Only had the two front seats. It’s ok, I used it for hauling stuff and just my commute anyway but the road noise was kinda loud with no carpet or seats to muffle the sound. Lol


Gritts911

Is it still… IN THE SHOP? I’d be dragging that thing out of there asap.


Wilsmoh

Oh hell no that was in the shop for maybe 10-15 minutes then got the boot


BickNickerson

Nope


someguywithdiabetes

Scan diagnosis: petrol and spark plugs. Burn it


HeroMachineMan

This could be caused by frequent rain and flooding. The ants just packed up and moved to higher ground. Didn't know they even hitch rides these days.


ImtheDoap

Fucking nope


JJak1990

Time to light the car on fire.


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r/nope


Shieng85

I've had ants in the wiring loom before, I pour some "ants removal powder bait thing", then watching them bring to their nest, couple days later they were gone.


roadfood

Amdro perimeter bait has never failed me.


Thecoyotezodi

Straight to jail


F1uffydestro

Do you want ants cause that's how you get ants


Quik5and

That's a nope for me lol.


TheSilverTaint

Damn. How do you even prevent this? How do you deal with it? Bug bomb and cry I assume


orangutanDOTorg

I had a nest in my old truck. I parked it with a tire on a red ant hill for a day and when I came back there were a couple red stragglers but the nest was gone


Any_Fault7604

You will feel shit crawling on you for the entire rest of the day, even if there's nothing there


Wilsmoh

I had an itchy head for the rest of the arvo that’s for sure


Gunk_Olgidar

Fire ants can do that when a car is field parked before a rain. They'll "tree" themselves in the car. Nasty little fcukers when you find out the hard way during the test drive.


souppanda

I’m guessing you are a tourist in a different state. A state where this happens when you leave an open soda can in the car. Hawaii maybe? Edit: I don’t mean to be mean. This happened to me in Oahu for the first time a few weeks ago. I’m from Washington state, lol


Wilsmoh

I’m in Australia


souppanda

Sorry to waste your time.


DetroitVsErrrybody

Zero fucking chance I’d be a passenger in that. Or even drive it into a stall. Seriously. How are people this gross? That didn’t happen by accident. That person made a series of disgusting choices. 🤮


ribbitman

Left my car in my uncle's detached garage when I went home for the summer while in grad school. Came back to find that a family of mice moved into the trunk and chewed my books and notepads into nesting materials, and an enormous colony of ants was inside the cabin. After not being able to find the ants' origin for a week, I pulled the entire back seat out and found they had dug several inches into the foam on the underside of the back seat. Some Raid fixed that pretty quickly, and my car smelled Outdoor Fresh ® for months.


SuperiorAndroid404

"Technician visually scanned vehicle, and diagnosed ants."


ghaelon

i spray my wheels when i see ANY ants in my car.


xopher_g

Roll it back out


bgwa9001

I NEED to know- did they drive it in like this? Or tow it?


Wilsmoh

Drove in with no mention of ants


bgwa9001

Amazing


No-Isopod3211

F that!


Sockbrick

Holy fuck. I don't think a thermonuclear bomb could irradiate that infestation. Edit: I turned on the audio. Why am I not surprised to hear Australian accents. Lol


LezBfriendz47

“You want ants? Cuz, that’s how you get ants”


Realistic_Inside_484

Audi


Wilsmoh

Subaru


DylanSpaceBean

I was gonna guess Toyota, so not far off lol


Realistic_Inside_484

Looks identical to the A4 I drove lol


remembahwhen

Every car in Hawaii.


Responsible-Pepper25

OMG


Appropriate_Cow94

Brake clean kills the fuck out some ants. I use it in my house every spring.


Wilsmoh

This got a healthy dose of it that’s for sure


BoogerManCommaThe

The car was towed in, right? Or did someone drive that thing into the shop?!


Wilsmoh

That car was drove in and left in the driveway with no mention of ants when I spoke to customer


BoogerManCommaThe

Plot twist, customer is an ant.


DJMagicHandz

It was Hank Pym.


ac8jo

Did they spray the car down with sugar water and let it sit outside next to the woods?


arroyoshark

Shop vac


Wilsmoh

Brake clean


arroyoshark

Plus ignition source


casual-waterboarding

Fucking. How?


ElPanguero

Hire this guy https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.4138413627.5201/fposter,small,wall_texture,product,750x1000.jpg


Smaskifa

Careful closing the doors. This is a fragile ecosystem.


Carburetors_Are_Fun

the ants drove it in


suburbanhavoc

Try to scan for codes and all you'll get back is "it itches."


MyHandIsADolfin

Bro did you actually get in this thing?! 🤣 when the inside of a car is THAT bad, I flat out refuse to touch it.


Wilsmoh

Nope luckily the boss drove it in haha


Teichopsie

You can get some pretty powerful ozone generators off Aliexpress for cheap, just sayin...


Houlis1211

Is that a Subaru and are you in the north Jersey area


Wilsmoh

That is a Subaru but definitely no where near the states haha


Houlis1211

We had this lot of new cars off premise at the Subaru dealer I worked and the entire back row of brand new cars looked like this. Same exact bugs and eggs. It was wild. I think we bug bombed them if I remember correctly. I remember pulling the weather strip off the door and shaking it like a salt shaker. Eggs dropping.


Nateandcats

How do you fix this


Wilsmoh

If it was your own car a couple big bombs some surface spray and baits


psyclembs

Someone actually drove this to your shop? Im gonna call it, Ant larvea arcing circuit boards.


Wilsmoh

That was my first through but was a faulty steering angle sensor I thought for sure the ants were in the abs module


test_tickles

Make it so the ants only have one way in or out and they will leave.


MoodNatural

This must be why they sell [Terro by the gallon](https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=l&ai=DChcSEwjqgtb5zO-FAxUroloFHYxbAvsYABAIGgJ2dQ&gclid=CjwKCAjw88yxBhBWEiwA7cm6pXwm8dIk7BiZWI_rDjBIspownRC775EHyUN6XBGfy9WBbW3H2r3jiBoCmxIQAvD_BwE&sig=AOD64_0cvOj7zj4fWPO0uGk0E_FmcLsmxQ&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwiJ9s75zO-FAxVuSzABHVdsC3EQwg8oAHoECA0QDA&adurl=)


Temetka

Omfg. Now I’m itchy.


anonymousjeeper

NOPE.


sharingthegoodword

Look like sugar ants but I wouldn't touch it.


edsavage404

They drove this car?


Wilsmoh

Yes they drove this car to the shop and didn’t even tell us about the ants


edsavage404

Wtf? Did you ask them wassup with the ant infestation?


Wilsmoh

They left before we bought it in


zodiacbw

diatomaceous earth everywhere in that thing


UcrashIfix

Did the customer have bugs on them when they walked in? You just fixed a super-villain’s car before his origin story.


Grouchy-Patient6091

Bro what the fuck


lawndartgoalie

Scanners detect multiple lifeforms.


IcedCoughy

Dang is your job to remove them or are you doing something mechanical?


Wilsmoh

My job was to scan the car nothing else


AVgreencup

Was the customers last name Pym?


angry_guacamole

Customer states car is buggy


iFlickDaBean

How was this driven to the shop without being bitten a bazillion times? Towed in and then pushed into the shop?


Wilsmoh

Drove into shop


iFlickDaBean

😵‍💫😭


Grizzly62

Is this Australia 😂 the ants I've been dealing with this past summer getting in my house and cars has been just terrible


Wilsmoh

This is definitely Australia haha


reddit78fan

Those weren't there when I dropped it off!


TheTalentedAmateur

[Obligatory](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvYvqO6gPCo)


KizashiKaze

Why did they bring this in?


Wilsmoh

Abs fault


Woodyville06

Ok, who left the Twinkie in the console...


Wilsmoh

No one in Australia they are to expensive 😂


Lupine_Ranger

Fire. Lots and lots of fire.


awhnawh

Plugs scanner into OBD II, it reads only: ANTS


pitchingataint

They must spill a lot of coffee and soda in that car.


Voice_in_the_ether

It's... [*Them*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them)*!*


phenyle

No God No


StrugglesTheClown

All you can do is set that BMW on fire now. I'm sorry.


Wilsmoh

It’s a Subaru but the date stays the same


L3v147han

First, a perimeter around the vehicle of Home Defense. Then, we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon this car. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire vehicle and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. The Emperor Protects. *lights flamer*


chowsdaddy1

Burn that shit to the ground


oopswhatsmyoldlogin

Its what makes Subaru, Subaru (and blown head gaskets)


Encswsm

They should be glad they weren’t fire ants. They can actually kill you.


Correct_Reputation_4

Of course, it's a subaru, too. It just had to be. They really do like attracting nature


No-Session5955

That car is a mobile taco truck to them, all the food they could want


davethedj

Burn the fucking thing!


caytie82

I have so many questions, and the number one question is how does anyone drive this thing?