[Vwdiesel] Wasps (was hydraulic heating)

[Chris Geiser]

My yellow vanagon (actually all vanagons, not just mine) still has the big
air intake scoops / grids on the back upper body panel left over from the
air-cooled engines need for cooling air.  Paper wasps love to build in
there.  However, it has to sit for a while before they do, and usually it
doesn't sit long enough.
Right now it's sitting while I fab some new stainless coolant pipes for
underneath, but not too many wasps around at -3 F!!

Later,

Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of slatersfb at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:57 AM
To: val at mongobird.com; swright at zuiko.sls.bc.ca; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Wasps (was hydraulic heating)

Yup, if any of my carsw sits more than a week or two, they build nests in
the door cracks & also in the side view mirrors. Also, we have around here
these orb weaver spiders that build giant webs over night on the cars. These
guys freak me out - they are big & very fast. Hairy striped legs &
unbelievably bold for something the size of a half dollar. I'll take the
wasps any day. Usually I hit the wasp nests with WD40 & they leave in a day
or two. The spiders I hit with brake clean. Scary mothers, man.
 
Bob in the Entire State 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Val Christian <val at mongobird.com>
To: Shawn Wright <swright at zuiko.sls.bc.ca>; vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Sent: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 06:44:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Wasps (was hydraulic heating)


> On 20 Dec 2005 at 20:17, Val Christian <val at mongobird.com> wrote:
> 
> > The same torch is used to blast misquitoes in the garage in the summer.
> 
> Nah... a can of WD-40 and a bic lighter is way easier to grab in hurry!
(or 
any aerosol...) 
> Found that out real quick when we disturbed a wasp nest while stripping my
old 
Jetta in the 
> garage!
> 
>  
> Shawn Wright

Shawn, my man, the wasps as something else!  Of all the cars I've owned, 
with all the paint schemes, only two, a 1979 Lemon Yellow Rabbit (got
Lemon Yellow for visibility after someone ran a stop sign into my 
Miami Blue Rabbit and totaled it), and my current 91 Tornado Red Jetta,
have the masterful ability of picking up wasps nests while running 
down the road.  It's a constant battle in every door, underneath the
car, and even in the radiator area.  I can't figure it out.  It's like
the cars oooze some kind of pheromone.  The wasps even gather at night.

Anyone else find this problem with VW?  Diesels?

Val

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