HELP! Will soon be driving through ALA/FL - Nissan Murano

elzorro · 07-31-2007, 12:27 PM

All:

I just bought a BoB (Black on Black) '07 S AWD, and I'm really looking forward to taking her on a long, leisurely trip to the coast...

WAIT! It's Love Bug season in Florida!

I need your advice on my best option(s):

1. Put a thick coat of wax before I leave

2. Clear bra

3. Travel with drier sheets, bug removal, etc...

4. Stay home.

Thanks!

TheGymKid · 07-31-2007, 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by elzorro
All:

I just bought a BoB (Black on Black) '07 S AWD, and I'm really looking forward to taking her on a long, leisurely trip to the coast...

WAIT! It's Love Bug season in Florida!

I need your advice on my best option(s):

1. Put a thick coat of wax before I leave

2. Clear bra

3. Travel with drier sheets, bug removal, etc...

4. Stay home.

Thanks!

All of the above will work.

You can also use that dirty windshield washer the gas stations have for your windows and scrub the bugs off at each gas up.

GripperDon · 07-31-2007, 01:37 PM

bluzrip · 07-31-2007, 05:42 PM

I'm in the middle part of state of Florida. It appears the worst of the "love bug" season is over. Really bad this year! I suggest that you put a good coat of wax on the car and then put a bug screen from your local Wally World on the front. I know, they look stupid. But in a bad bug season you not only see messes and messes that damage the paint, you see overheated cars. The bugs will plug up a radiator!

elzorro · 07-31-2007, 05:56 PM

All:

Thanks for the advise, especially the bug screen idea. Someone told me that the love bugs were introduced to Forida to help control the mosquito population.

I'd rather have sketters than tandem-flying-tar-coated-slow-flying car-paint dissolvers.

**njjoe** · 07-31-2007, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by elzorro
I'd rather have sketters than tandem-flying-tar-coated-slow-flying car-paint dissolvers.

Well put.

-njjoe

mikeyrider · 08-01-2007, 02:39 PM

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Originally posted by elzorro

WAIT! It's Love Bug season in Florida!

Love bugs are generally out in May and again in September. I haven't seen any for quite a while, and lately I've been driving often from north FL to central FL and back. Their "season" varies a bit with how far north or south you go. So, if you go before September, you'll get the usual run of splats but no LBs.

bluzrip · 08-01-2007, 04:20 PM

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Someone told me that the love bugs were introduced to Forida to help control the mosquito population.

The most common urban legend says the bugs are the result of a genetic engineering effort gone bad. The University of Florida is usually blamed. According to Snopes, none of this is true. But the bugs still suck!

Snopes

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elzorro Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Nashville Posts: 2	All: Thanks for the advise, especially the bug screen idea. Someone told me that the love bugs were introduced to Forida to help control the mosquito population. I'd rather have sketters than tandem-flying-tar-coated-slow-flying car-paint dissolvers. __________________ have a better one

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07-31-2007, 05:42 PM	#4 (permalink)
bluzrip Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 74	I'm in the middle part of state of Florida. It appears the worst of the "love bug" season is over. Really bad this year! I suggest that you put a good coat of wax on the car and then put a bug screen from your local Wally World on the front. I know, they look stupid. But in a bad bug season you not only see messes and messes that damage the paint, you see overheated cars. The bugs will plug up a radiator!

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