So after leaving my I6 to charge at the metro station one day I come back to find that the entire charging unit, cable, and now my car crawling with ants. Most of them didn't survive the highway drive + rain on the drive home that day, but some did and after a few days there are still a few of them crawling around, especially near the charge port. I don't think it'll be a huge problem, but is there any method for cleaning out the charge port? I don't image water is a good idea, but i was thinking of using compressed air or something. Anyone have suggestions? Thanks!
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cleaning the charge port?
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Compressed air sounds good, and a while back there was a thread about cleaning the contacts on chargers, and this was recommended:
CRC 05103 QD Electronic Cleaner
CRC 05103 QD Electronic Cleaner
By a small 2oz bottle of Terro liquid Ant Killer and put a drop of it on a small piece non-permeable paper like a piece of a magazine page. Then place it in the charge port overnight (and for a day, if possible) so that it won't drip the liquid into the charge port but is accessible to the ants.
The stuff contains borax dissolved in a sugar water. The ants go nuts over it, and will all come out for multiple drinks. They take it back to any nest they may have made in your car and feed it to the larvae and they all die.
It works wonders inside and outside your home. Have kids or animals? Put it where they can't reach. Not likely to harm them because of the small amount of borax but small ants and their big carpenter cousins all croak.
I love the stuff. And, no, I don't work for them. Available from Amazon and just about any big box or home improvement store.
In one instance I had ants all over my mailbox. Spraying killed the ones that were out but not the nest. Put a drop of the stuff right on the mailbox and within an hour, there was a steady continuous head-to-tail path of ants feeding on the drop then returning home. Carpenter ants would half-bury themselves in the stuff so long I thought they were dead but they eventually backed out and went home. None ever came back.
Borax, by itself, does everything from helping clean clothes to whatever but is poisonous to insects. However, they quickly learn to avoid it. That is, unless it is dissolved in sugar water. Then they can't get enough of it but since they don't die right away, they never learn from their error.
The stuff contains borax dissolved in a sugar water. The ants go nuts over it, and will all come out for multiple drinks. They take it back to any nest they may have made in your car and feed it to the larvae and they all die.
It works wonders inside and outside your home. Have kids or animals? Put it where they can't reach. Not likely to harm them because of the small amount of borax but small ants and their big carpenter cousins all croak.
I love the stuff. And, no, I don't work for them. Available from Amazon and just about any big box or home improvement store.
In one instance I had ants all over my mailbox. Spraying killed the ones that were out but not the nest. Put a drop of the stuff right on the mailbox and within an hour, there was a steady continuous head-to-tail path of ants feeding on the drop then returning home. Carpenter ants would half-bury themselves in the stuff so long I thought they were dead but they eventually backed out and went home. None ever came back.
Borax, by itself, does everything from helping clean clothes to whatever but is poisonous to insects. However, they quickly learn to avoid it. That is, unless it is dissolved in sugar water. Then they can't get enough of it but since they don't die right away, they never learn from their error.
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