sometimes my car shocks me?

Answer 1

Its the time of the year. Winter is very dry and a lot of things shock people.

Answer 2

Any time when the relative humidity is in the cellar (10-15%) and you get behind the wheel your clothing sliding into the seat creates a slight static electrical charge. When you touch anything metal the charge jumps to ground and discharges. That's when you get zapped! Actually the car does not "shock you". Your the lady who "shocks" the car! Try wearing gloves when you put the key in the ignition switch. As the interior of your car warms up the static charge disappears.

If you have ever shuffled your feet across a carpet and touched another person when the humidity is low the exact same thing happens. If you've ever rubbed a small balloon on your clothing and held it on top of your head note your hair will stand up. That's static electricty. Your just a shocking girlie girl when it's cold outside! The same thing happens to everyone at one time or another.

Answer 3

I have a friend who had the same problem but for him it's all cars and all the time he touches one..The reason for this is your body ..when you walk there is something causing you to charge your body basically you get possitive..you end up with extra ions in your body and so when you get close to metal like a car that is grownded you discharge these extra ions..and so you end up getting a shock..same trick can be done by walking on carpet with wool socks and dragging your feet then go and touch another person and you will give them a shock..the more you drag your feet the bigger the shock will be.

Answer 4

It's actually not the car, it's you, the electricity is just traveling through the car to make a complete circuit.

First touch your car with your key after you get out, and it won't be so shocking...

Answer 5

It's called static electricity, and it happens when it's cold and you slide across the seat, touch the ground, and touch the metal car all at the same time.

They use to sell "static strips" that would ground the car out and that wouldn't happen. If it bothers you, maybe you could find some at a car-parts place.

Answer 6

Static electricity is an electrical charge caused by an imbalance of electrons on the surface of a material.

Before 1839, physicists regarded "static electricity" as a substance distinct from four other kinds of electricity: "current" or "Voltaic" electricity, "Animal" or "bioelectricity," "thermoelectricity" from thermocouples and "magnetoelectricity" from coils. In that year Michael Faraday published the results of his experiments on the Identity of Electricities. He demonstrated that the divisions between static, current, etc., were illusions, that all five "kinds of electricity" were actually collections of phenomena, while electricity itself was a single entity appearing in negative and positive forms.

Today we regard static electricity as a subject heading also called Electrostatics: a class of various phenomena associated with substances or objects having a net electric charge. In everyday usage, "static electricity" typically refers to charged objects with voltages of sufficient magnitude to produce visible attraction, repulsion, and electrical sparks.

Static electricity can be a serious nuisance in the processing of analog recording media, because it can attract dust to sensitive materials. In the case of photography, dust accumulating on lenses and photographic plates degrades the resulting picture. Dust also permanently damages vinyl records because it can be embedded into the grooves as the stylus passes over. In both cases, several approaches exist to combat such dust deposition. Some brushes, particularly those with carbon fibre bristles, are advertised as possessing anti-static properties. Also available are hand-held static guns which shoot streams of ions to discharge static on records and lenses.

Note that the charges associated with static electricity need not be still or "static". The presence of charge motions and electric current does not detract from the net charge, the electrostatic forces, nor from the sparking and corona discharge, or other phenomena. Electric current and electrostatic phenomena can exist simultaneously in the same system.

Static electricity is an important element in the biological process of pollination by bees, since the charge on a bee's body helps to attract and hold pollen.

Answer 7

Static electricity. Low humidity contributes. Certain clothes also

Answer 8

Yeah, I hate that. Mine does it too, but only on cold dry days. I suspect that's the reason.

Answer 9

Hey I too had that. I felt that in one my friend's car too.

Answer 10

yea,mine does that to me too.i was told it was the seats.