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Originally Posted by GASoline71
Found the pic... how about this baby starin' at you when you remove a wheel? 
Gary |
Yuck.
Looks like you have a good sized "lesser European House spider" (T. domestica).
They are also called the aggressive house spider.
These guys are related to the Hobos (tunnel weavers) but not really dangerous to humans.
When I was growing up, we called these wolf spiders but the actual wolf spiders are
generally not so patterned, very large and quite hairy.
Sometimes ID between Hobos and house spiders requires (at least) a very good hand lens.
The true Hobos I've seen have been fast, medium size spiders and their favorite haunt
seems to be around car undercarriages or wood piles.
BTW--if you can tolerate having these guys around, please leave them be.
Without these predators we would have a lot more problems with other bugs.