Gentlemen, I received great pre-purchasing tips on this forum and I was able to acquired an 05 Launch Edition C2S with 40K miles. The DME was clean and the avg mph was 36 mph. The cumulative engine hrs were 1400 with less than two seconds spent in range 1. The interior is in excellent condition but there are the normal road rash represented on a 6 yrs old car. There were 3 ignitions in range 3 at 214 hrs and the car has held together since then. I have the maintenance history and the brakes have well over 50% life front and rear. If the PCCB rotors go, then I will switch to steel. The car passed PPI from a independent Porsche shop recommended here on this forum. Now, what do I do about ANTS! I've had the car for three months now and I don't eat in the car. We had some problems with ants at work and they sprayed in and around the building so perhaps they were redirected to my car. I've heard of ants feeding on grease and or protein so I wanted to ask if anyone has had issues with ants in the past and if so, what was the solution to rid the car of ants. I don't want to spray raid on the car or inside the cabin - the interior still smell brand new. There is no food source, but it has been a few weeks and the ants have not left.

 

Wow... that's a new one to me! Never heard of such a problem... I didn't know ants could live on grease. I heard that cochroaches can eat the insulation on wires though...

Where do you live? I'm thinking that winter is just around the corner and some freezing temps should take care of them...

I also hear you about not wanting to spray raid either... I agree, that oily/greasy spray could have bad affects on the carpet and leather...

How about this for an idea? Pull the car in the garage, open the doors, hood, trunk, glove box, all things that you could possibly open... close the garage door and use one of those "fog" type of bug bombs? Gas the little critters! No spray, the only thing I think you may have to do is wash the car after and wipe the inside down... it shouldn't leave any residual smell once you air the car out... I've used these bug bombs when I lived in an apartment to kill cochroaches, the only thing I did was wash all my dishes as the cabinets were left open.

This might be a good idea... hope it helps, others might chime in now.

(That's funny, didn't know the board had an editing function... it deleted the "cokc" in roaches, had to spell it differently, but I figure you knew what I was getting at).

 

Come drive to Wisconsin in winter, and leave her outside for a few days.

 

You might want to talk to the bug guy at your local hardware store for something that will attract the ants to a central spot where you can dispose of them. Ant trays might do the trick and they are self contained and none of the bait will get into your car. But you want something that will attract and hold the dead ants.

 

Only my opinion, but there has to be something inside the car attracting the ants....Maybe some type of citrus cleaner used?????

 

I had ants attack my car. It turned out to be the coating
that I put on the tires to make them look black. Ounce
the ants are on the tires they go everywhere.
Good luck.
Paul

 

Thanks, but I think I found the food source. I borrowed a toddler seat and I neglected to clean the seat before I installed it in the back. There was left over sticky food goo caked on the back of the base unit - so I removed the seat. I also sprayed some table napkins with raid and stuffed the napkins into the cracks where the front hood support shocks extend into the front fender and I also shoved a few napkins in the door hinge and jamb area for extra measure. I'll give the Raid a few days to flush them out - hopefully the few napkins is all I need.

 

Ants are a common problem to cars in South Florida especially after heavy summer rain. My Porsches have never gotten them because they are kept indoors with a garage which gets monthly service (aliong with my home).

My Honda on the other hand got infested and I did call the professional bug service . Some people use the supermarket brand foggers and then air out the car but i feel its very unhealthy and bad for the car .
My bug service guy used two things . One was an ant food where he strategically placed it so that the ants could bring it to the nest . The other thing he used was an odorless spray which worked well .

Best to call a pro bug service . It was not expensive either . 30 bucks or so.

 

By no means should you FOG up a car! I did this in my garage several years ago and had my SL, Jag, and LR in at the time. It took several months before the STINK of the fog fumes were gone from the A/C vents of the cars! Not fun! It eventually went away, but never would I do that again!

Vince

 

These work very well... liquid ant bait

http://www.how-to-home.com/terro-liquid-ant-bait.html

 

May sound absurd, but, got any contacts in the commercial foods business?
Parking indoors in 0˚ F space for a day or two ought to fix the problem.
The real question is what's the location of the ant source. Home? Office?
If it's home (most likely) I'd park the car on a set of well-secured, Raid-laced 2'x2' bits of plywood, unless you want to spray poison everywhere.
Just me, I wouldn't ever consider setting off one of those anti-insect bombs in my car.
God knows what that stuff does to humans.