Whenever I slid out of my automobile I receive a static shock. I now just hang on to the frame of the car when getting out of it .I've taken it back to the dealership three times and still no improvement. The problem that I'm having occurs during all seasons and/or weather conditions.
2007-01-18 05:09:49 · 8 answers · asked by JB4ME2UC 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
because electricity cannot travel through rubber. the electricity builds up and runs around your car unable to get to the ground because it can't go through the rubber tires. However, when you get out of the car and go to shut the door, you all of a sudden give the electricity an outlet from the car, therefore it jumps from the car to you giving you a shock
2007-01-18 05:19:15 · answer #1 · answered by conventional 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rubbing your seat when you get out of your seat may cause some static... but that doesnt sound right..seats are small... unless you dry hump your steering wheel while keeping your *** on your seat... you shouldnt rub the seat so much, while getting out, that your body has static electricity. it would take more then an ***-drag to create enough static electricity to cause a static shock.
Are you figity? do you move around in your seat constantly, creating electricity to build up and causing a shock when you get out?
How about when you get in? does that cause a shock too?
do this experiment.
Run your car for awhile, engine off,but electrical parts on (ON marker just before you start the car ) ** While you wait... dont do anything involving fabrics or metal... if you touch metal it will release the electricity already built up in your system ... if you touch fabrics you will build up static electricty unrelative to the experiment.. both would ruin the test results. ** Wait patiently outside for as long as you see fit.. 5 mins atleast..
Once the time is up... get back in your car... touching the same stuff you touch when you get out..
Did you get a shock?
if you did that tells me something in your car is giving off electrical energy... and thats NOT GOOD! you could get electricuted very easily by the source!! take it to a specialist in the electronics of the car and tell them about this concern. This came in mind because a few days ago i saw on the news, this person built his dream house too close to an electrical circuit or w/e and when you got in the house.... whenever you touched something.. .you'd get a shock... the house was bordered up and now just sits there. 500,000 dollar investment .. gone..
you may have a mild case of something like that in your car. try it out.
If not, its probably your doing yourself, not your car. so STOP IT! =)
2007-01-18 05:40:50 · answer #2 · answered by Corey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your car is building up a static charge as it moves down the road. What you can do to remove this problem is install a grounding strap to your car. The rubber tires on your car insulates your car and prevents the static from going anywhere. Thats why the moment you step out and your feet touch the ground you instantly get zapped. A grounding strap connects from your car and is long enough to allow the charge to go somewhere.
Check out the link for a more detailed explanation and picture of what a grounding strap looks like.
2007-01-18 05:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by kimchee_boi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to change your fabric softner man! No, seriously, your car is generating static electricity by its movement. You can get anti-static strips at most auto supply stores. They are simple to attach to the underside of your car, drag on the road, and disperse the static that the car builds up so getting out after a drive is not a shocking experience.
2007-01-18 06:20:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's static electricity, worse in the winter when the air is dry. You can try spraying the seats with a fabric softener or an anti static spray. About the only way to avoid it is to do what you're doing, hold on to metal as you get out.
2007-01-18 05:18:06 · answer #5 · answered by oklatom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're incorrect once you're saying no man or woman else has this difficulty. the problem is really instantly ahead, we study it in school too, besides the undeniable fact that, it truly is basically that it doesn't ensue many times besides the undeniable fact that it does. once you're in the motor vehicle, your clothing and the motor vehicle seat fabrics generates static electrical energy from the friction led to. (ever tried rubbing a balloon on carpet etc?) you recognize once you contact a pole or some thing you get static taken aback? it truly is because the pole acts because the conductor, the ingredient the electrical energy is going by. The electrical energy plug at your residence has an "earth" conductor ingredient in it that directs the added electrical energy to the floor so no man or woman receives taken aback. once you step out of the motor vehicle, you contact the metallic pole or cope with , and the metallic is the conductor, besides the undeniable fact that the electrical energy, which has to finally end up in the floor is going by you really of the motor vehicle because the rubber tires stay away from the electrical energy circuit from being complete. that is why it is going by you really. even as is is going by you, you get an electric powered marvel.
2016-11-25 01:32:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spray the rug and seats with anti static spray from laundry dept at store.. Tires and synthetic materials cause it. stop with the polyester pants.
2007-01-18 05:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
crap happens get over it
2007-01-18 05:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by COLTS_MUSTANG_FAN_2008 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋