GirlsAutoKnow
01-14-2017, 07:59 AM
as everyone can plainly see, I'm new to the site.... So, if I've posted incorrectly, please advise.
I recently bought a 2001 mustang convertible from a 25 year old kid (friend of my younger brother) who got a DUI, freaked out and went home to Washington.... He was so desperate to get outta dodge, I paid him $200 for the vehicle.
While, I'd never personally seen the vehicle, my brother did... He says it ran was in decent shape and had 96k miles on it.... So, I got a ride from Sarasota to Tampa and picked it up at 11pm and drove it home.
Since it was dark when I got there to pick it up, I literally got into the car and drove it straight home without being able to examine it, at all. I made it home just fine... Parked it and went to sleep.
The next day was THE BEGINNING OF MY NEVER ENDING NIGHTMARE......
I got up early, anxious to check out my 'deal of the century' and immediately decided it needed detailing. So, the first thing I did was remove seats, console etc so I could remove the carpet and clean it.
OH. MY. GOD. I lifted up one tiny corner if the carpet and there we're literally hundreds of roaches that ran in every direction.
That's the end of it for me. Hired neighbor kid to pitch the carpet and paid exterminator $300 to do house and yard prophylactically and to do the Mustang.... he refused to do the car....
I've since had neighbor kid put 6 bottles of that powdered Boric acid into every single nook and cranny of the car, but I'm so paralyzed with FEAR of those bugs (and there were about a 4-5 different types of bugs in there according to neighbor kids).
Has anyone else dealt with such a horrifically disgusting, filthy nightmare? If so, how in God's name can I make CERTAIN they're dead and where is the cheapest places to buy auto carpet? While I'm technically a nurse anesthetist, I'm exceptionally technically inclined and have just about EVERY tool known to man, so please, recommend ANY kind of carpet.... even those that require the use of special tools like carpet/heat gun.
I also need to clean the steering wheel.....but nothing I've used has truly cleaned it. (I've bought at least 20 different types of cleaners.... Auto, Home
Purple Power, Fantastic, Soft Scrub w/and without bleach, 3 diff types of The Works, Cascade dishwashing detergent, Tide (regular washer) detergent....all of these with extremely hot water....still sticky and gross with the dirt deep in the crevices. In fact, I've yet to find a detailer anywhere in Florida who has, truly, successfully and completely cleaned a steering wheel properly.
Important side note for the 2 living souls who weren't aware of this:
*****If you own a convertible and live in Florida, it is NOT a good idea to leave the top down, 24/7, under a giant weeping willow (notorious for ticks) for TWO YEARS!
So, I'm also wondering if I'll ever be able to 'get past' the roaches bring in there and whether I'll ever be able to sit in the car again ...or you know drive it? I can only imagine what was crawling on me that first night I drove it home, in the itch l pitch dark. Lol.....
❤ here's a giant preemptive thanks to anyone who replies!
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I recently bought a 2001 mustang convertible from a 25 year old kid (friend of my younger brother) who got a DUI, freaked out and went home to Washington.... He was so desperate to get outta dodge, I paid him $200 for the vehicle.
While, I'd never personally seen the vehicle, my brother did... He says it ran was in decent shape and had 96k miles on it.... So, I got a ride from Sarasota to Tampa and picked it up at 11pm and drove it home.
Since it was dark when I got there to pick it up, I literally got into the car and drove it straight home without being able to examine it, at all. I made it home just fine... Parked it and went to sleep.
The next day was THE BEGINNING OF MY NEVER ENDING NIGHTMARE......
I got up early, anxious to check out my 'deal of the century' and immediately decided it needed detailing. So, the first thing I did was remove seats, console etc so I could remove the carpet and clean it.
OH. MY. GOD. I lifted up one tiny corner if the carpet and there we're literally hundreds of roaches that ran in every direction.
That's the end of it for me. Hired neighbor kid to pitch the carpet and paid exterminator $300 to do house and yard prophylactically and to do the Mustang.... he refused to do the car....
I've since had neighbor kid put 6 bottles of that powdered Boric acid into every single nook and cranny of the car, but I'm so paralyzed with FEAR of those bugs (and there were about a 4-5 different types of bugs in there according to neighbor kids).
Has anyone else dealt with such a horrifically disgusting, filthy nightmare? If so, how in God's name can I make CERTAIN they're dead and where is the cheapest places to buy auto carpet? While I'm technically a nurse anesthetist, I'm exceptionally technically inclined and have just about EVERY tool known to man, so please, recommend ANY kind of carpet.... even those that require the use of special tools like carpet/heat gun.
I also need to clean the steering wheel.....but nothing I've used has truly cleaned it. (I've bought at least 20 different types of cleaners.... Auto, Home
Purple Power, Fantastic, Soft Scrub w/and without bleach, 3 diff types of The Works, Cascade dishwashing detergent, Tide (regular washer) detergent....all of these with extremely hot water....still sticky and gross with the dirt deep in the crevices. In fact, I've yet to find a detailer anywhere in Florida who has, truly, successfully and completely cleaned a steering wheel properly.
Important side note for the 2 living souls who weren't aware of this:
*****If you own a convertible and live in Florida, it is NOT a good idea to leave the top down, 24/7, under a giant weeping willow (notorious for ticks) for TWO YEARS!
So, I'm also wondering if I'll ever be able to 'get past' the roaches bring in there and whether I'll ever be able to sit in the car again ...or you know drive it? I can only imagine what was crawling on me that first night I drove it home, in the itch l pitch dark. Lol.....
❤ here's a giant preemptive thanks to anyone who replies!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Autogeekonline mobile app (http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=87407)