Dude...there's a spider living in my trunk (How serious is rust?)

[mikejungle]

So there's this pretty deep dent underneath my left taillight that I believe was not on the car when I bought it. I stopped driving the car for a few months, and it's rusted a little. (How serious is the rust? I'm assuming it can be sanded off and painted...or should I just replace this panel?)

Anyway.
So because of the nature of the dent, there's a small crack in between this panel and the next and I believe a bloody spider has made its home in there. When I first started driving the car again about a week or two ago, there was a thick net of webs on that corner of the car, spanning from the dent to my bumper. So i wiped em off.
I come back a few days later and there's another bloody web on the same corner. I didn't think much of it and dismissed it as coincidence, but today I go out to change my air filter and there's another bloody collection of webs.

So here's what it comes to...kill it for its insolence? Or keep it as a...good luck...spider?

[CorvallisBMW]

kill it.

[Jand3rson]

Kill it. Fuck those little bastards. I HATE spiders.

[PiercedE30]

fucking kill that som'a'bitch.

[FredK]

I visited a body shop that had a 3.0CS parked outside. Well as I walked up to it, this gray cat jumped to the window, startling me. As I made my way to the front of the car, I saw the cat again, but this time he was outside of the car.

The CS had a gaping hole in the passenger floorboard, and the cat used this to get in and out of the car. I guess it was "his" car. There was a water dish right in front of the car and everything.

[xLibelle]

i let my car sit for a few months while building another e30 and it acquired about 8 black widows. i had to pull it in the garage, jack stand it, spray infected areas and then release a couple of foggers in the garage. It took a week to erraticate them all. id hate to have a bite from one of them while working on the car.

[mikejungle]

hm...the one dude that voted to keep the little bugger around hasn't shown his face >:]

any input on the rust?


-more on unwelcome inhabitants
I went to check out an old peugeot a while back to see if it was worth buying (it was cheap and I was poor...but no, it wasn't worth buying).
Anyway. the thing hadn't been driven in a year or two and I popped the hood to hear a rustling. I didn't actually find what it was that made the sound, but I did find a healthy amount of rodent droppings on the spark plug covers and such. Not to mention the FAT black widow that was hiding underneath the hood.

[Ray Smoodiver]

That metal is so thin there that you're pretty much going to have to cut a section out of a parts car and weld it into your car.

I had the same thing.

[cferb]

Keep it for good luck.

There was a spider living in the corner, about 3 feet from my computer, he's gone now. After seeing this little bastard in my living room, little spiders don't bother me as much

[bwanac]

i bet he ads about as much hp as a nice sticker, keep 'em!

in fact, let him ride shotty.

[mikejungle]

wouldn't welding be more time consuming, costly, and uglier than just replacing the panel?

I have had spiders ride shotty. I don't know how it is that they get in, but I was getting out of my car once and this little bitch just drops from the ceiling and dangles in front of my face. So I threw him out.

[threlevenguy]

^^i probly would have crashed if it were while i was driving

[eric (^__^)]

I don't really mind spiders all that much.

[browntown]

holy crap kill it now

[Pull_Addict]

just catch it and set it free into the wild. that way you dont kill it or let it scare the shit out of you when driving...thats what i would do at least.