Guys,

Need your help. How do we remove cockroaches from our car? My wife Myvi used to be use for transfering a lot of cooking materials (flours, vege, onions, etc) before, thus make it a perfect place for cockroaches breeding ground. Now even though we already clean the whole car, spray even with ridsect, the cockroaches seem like continue to be there.

Any ideas? Thanks.

pandan leaves. pluck two to three rumpun of it. then put one stalk under the front seat, one at the rear (on the rear speaker board) and another at the boot.

hrmm is it gona be useful ? cause pandan smell so good i`m afraid it will attract more cockcroaches rather than chasing them away.

i use roach killer bait (powder). they eated and die some where. other eated the remain also die.

get from local hardware shop for few bucks, green packets.

go to Daiso and get the cockroach "trap" packages.

Put in the car at different places for the whole night. Repeat this for a few nights.

I managed to trap 2 cockroaches in 2 of my traps. One is a small little one, and the other a middle sized one.

No more cockroaches in my car spotted ever since.
tested and proven.

when truck come and fumigate ur area

u park outside and leave the window open

gerenti waffak in the car also died

then after taht u bring to vakuum, wipe down the interior and put pandan lift for fragant

its most likely cockroaches are hiding underneath carpet, electrical/fuse board, areas where its warm and hot or any other holes found inside the car. i am afraid you need a commercial cockroach gel to treat this problem as the cockroach found in your car might be german cockcroach. This is totally a different species from americana cockroach or oriental cockroach usually found at home.

Laugh till terpelanting

Cockroaches are hard to remove unless you strip the whole car and install it in control area.

works like a charm. it even manage to trap a normal size lizard..

pandan leaf works, true story

pandan leaves...

never place pandan leaves if u stay in kampung area or where u park cars near bushes .. pandan has strong ability to pull snake's desire to enter the car .. remember that

I just solve the same problem... lol

go n buy those repeller .. made from pappermint etc.. Giant selling..

look similar to this..

http://www.moresales.com.my/catalog/image/uupkyjrt.jpg

Bro,

Put the pandan leaves already but seem like these cockroaches "live free die hard" one leh...

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Added on August 16, 2012, 7:10 pmIs it gonna be useful? These cockroaches is the small type one....not like the one in the house...btw, how much the cockroach trap package sell in Daiso bro? Might consider to try it later...

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Added on August 16, 2012, 7:13 pmSeem like wise advise bro...are u into termite business? Is the gel effective enough? How much is it anyway & where can I get it?

This post has been edited by JV88: Aug 16 2012, 07:13 PM

how many kilo you put?

key word is rumpun....

means, the whole rumpun of pandan leaves.

Got esco buy those ikat edi in bundle ones. buy three-four bundles and dump in car. put at those unexposed areas such as under the seats, at spare tire compartment, etc.

Put pandan leaves, does work. Once a pest control guy told me, a egg contains 250 cockroaches. Good luck

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Added on August 16, 2012, 10:46 pmU can also keep a toad or lizard in car, they feed on cockroaches

This post has been edited by TamaUser: Aug 16 2012, 10:46 PM

and you will get a new gang of lizards in your car.

pandan leaves work for me
my mom taught me this old method 1
if still not work , make sure u put more

If it still doesn't work, plant the pandan plant inside. Make sure you water it daily.

why need to buy pandan leaves ??... balik kampung season sure can find lots of pandan bush at the kampung. lol

pandan leaf.
then sunbake the car at a roof top carpark for a few days.
the roaches will take a hike to something else.

need to check ur car air cond system and carpet need to take out and clean .. my previous car also have this tiny cockroaches bcos of got little leaking making the carpet little damp .. try ridsect spray whole can , sunbake after few day all came back ..

oh yea.....u meant the original carpeting not the removable ones right?
thats a good place to start.

Best thing is to remove as much trimming from your car to see if there is any hive.

Pandan leaves will help too for long periods of time.

Remove any damp carpeting & dry them.

Once you have done all this, please remember to use precaution to avoid the same thing from happening.

Dont eat in your car.
Dont park near rubbish dumps/dirty drains or any place that looks even remotely dirty.

Dont expect this to be done in a day, allocate few weeks. Even then you might see 1 or 2 running about.

Happy hunting

i bought can of mortein (something similar but waterbased) type, i spray every where, including aircond, dashboard, under dashboard twice in a day (night when i don't drive) . . . .

Next day leave the under sun n pun some pandan or charcoal to remove smell ... it take 2 day n everything gone

Panda leaf works..

cockroaches already lay egg a lot like my myvi especially at spare tyre carpet...just look over there..still cannot kill it until now...hahaha

like me, spray kau kau .... i finish one botal morteir in one night, after that, u see died body only ....

ooo.. nice tips..... i shall go get truck loads of pandan leafs now.. =)

Yes agree.. Pandan leaves really works.. Ask your mom or grandmom, they know the best.

buy fendona from BASF...spray it in ur car & forever no more cockroaches in ur car....

the method above is "stop by a pandan bush, make sure nobody around, pick and run!!"

make sure pak cik din saw u or else kena mercun~~

I'm using Baygon cockorach... Spray half tin at night at all over the car.. Tommorow morning that like 50-70 german cockroach dead body.. But still got.. Spray another half tin also got 20 + dead cokrch... Now no more I think but I think still got ).. Will continue next week... BUT the smell cannot tahannnnnnn... 1 month also not hilang...

are they small cockroaches? 50-70 is ALOT....even 20 man...lol...if they are big...I would rather give up and call pest control...

german roaches carry egg(ootheca) with them and each capsule consists of 36-46 small roaches.
fendona is good in controlling american cockroach but when it comes to german,cockroach. a more comprehensive.treatment may be needed such as vacuuming,chemical spraying and gel baiting.

if u spend more time in the car, it is recommended to carry out gel baiting eventhough the result may not be immediate buf ur health is more important. isnt it?!

german cockroach is the small one.. u always see em in restaurant.... but serius.. that the amount.. even im using vaccum to collect them... after second time spray also got... next week ill will spray one more time... ... only the smell of baygon long lasting

ps; i spent more time in car... coz im travelling alot... sometime .. eat..sleep in car

This post has been edited by carloSpencer: Sep 1 2012, 12:35 PM

wow....never seen cockroach in my car before...seen german cockroach in my friend's car though

i use this, proven effective



but the most important thing is, keep your car interior clean
but sometimes cant help you part near those drains, thus the cockroaches may invade your car

thats why, use the trap

i think i got 1 easy solution already get SHIELDTOX OUTDOOR. spray around the carpet , seat ,trunk and dashboard .. the smell is worst then bygone but this OUTDOOR tin can prevent insect from coming back ..

so pandan leaf can kill the cockroaches ? !!!!
i am foreigner i don't know these things
why taxi drivers put pandan leaf in their cars? the smell looks like Socks

but you also impacted

u have to leave ur car for overnight then buy some perfume to sprasy over your car to cover the smell lol.. this shieldtox outdoor can kill the roaches and prevent it from coming inside ur car ..

... but the driver also will be blasted with chemicals....

u trying to kill something that can live in nuclear winter

the problems is they spawn more faster than we are killing them,lolz...been placing lots of pandan leaves in my car, smell like Kuih ady,lolz

previously encounter the same problem... so many small coahes in my car.... usually i do a 'manual' method... later, i just take out everything(spare tyre, rear seat...etc).... and spray the whole interior... every hole, under dashboard, tight places.... manage to kill around 40-60 small coches... a few spider also...

lmao

+99999 on pandan leaves...
juz spam a lot of pandan leaves in ur car... roaches hate pandan smell

If all else fails, can try "Trap-A-Roach" by putting one of these in the car.

LOL ... roaches have survived more than that

just go carwash they have service steam your car..

I have try that steam is fast solution settle that cockroaches

go for fogging service at car wash outlet...

Now there is fogging spray to kill all those cockroaches in car, just press and let the spray fog the whole car, close the door for 10 mins, settle
Check it out thru shopee or tiktok shop

i use this, squeeze some on tiny sauce plates from a hawker stall then leave them under the seats
can buy from shopee

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Woah thank you for sharing the info