What do you do if your car shocks you?

[keith]

I haven't been able to get out of my car without getting shocked as I close the car door for weeks!

Someone suggested getting a spray can of static guard and I picked one up tonite. Hope it helps.

Another fellow says he just closes the door with his foot. If this is such a common problem, why can't car makers address it?

Any other suggestions to keep from getting static shocks?

Regards,
Keith

[pk]

What about shocks when I get out of my car?

Many people experience shocks when they get out of their car. Often they believe that the car is charged - but this is not normally so.

Sitting in the car, electrostatic charges are generated on the car seat and the person's body, due to contact and movement between the clothes and the seat. When the person leaves the seat, They take half of this charge with them. As they get out of the vehicle, their body voltages rises due to this charge - a voltage of 10,000 Volts is not unusual.

When they reach to touch the vehicle door, the electrostatic discharge and shock occurs as their hand approaches the metal door.

The voltage build-up can often be avoided by holding onto a metal part of the door frame as you leave the seat. This provides a return dissipation path for the charge on your body.

If you have forgotten to hold the metal door part as you leave the seat, a shock may often still be avoided by touching the glass window before you touch the metal door. The glass may be conductive enough to dissipate charge, whilst preventing the rapid discharge which is felt as a shock.

If you have your keys in your hand - let the spark discharge through the keys not to your fingers, and you won't feel anything!
To avoid shocks when getting out of the car -

HOLD the metal door frame before you get out

KEEP HOLDING as you get out, until you are fully out of the car.

It's easy with practice!

FULL STORY AND RELATED LINKS FOUND HERE: This link

[MrKhay]

Originally Posted by pk

What about shocks when I get out of my car?

Many people experience shocks when they get out of their car. Often they believe that the car is charged - but this is not normally so.

Sitting in the car, electrostatic charges are generated on the car seat and the person's body, due to contact and movement between the clothes and the seat. When the person leaves the seat, They take half of this charge with them. As they get out of the vehicle, their body voltages rises due to this charge - a voltage of 10,000 Volts is not unusual.

When they reach to touch the vehicle door, the electrostatic discharge and shock occurs as their hand approaches the metal door.

The voltage build-up can often be avoided by holding onto a metal part of the door frame as you leave the seat. This provides a return dissipation path for the charge on your body.

If you have forgotten to hold the metal door part as you leave the seat, a shock may often still be avoided by touching the glass window before you touch the metal door. The glass may be conductive enough to dissipate charge, whilst preventing the rapid discharge which is felt as a shock.

If you have your keys in your hand - let the spark discharge through the keys not to your fingers, and you won't feel anything!
To avoid shocks when getting out of the car -

HOLD the metal door frame before you get out

KEEP HOLDING as you get out, until you are fully out of the car.

It's easy with practice!

FULL STORY AND RELATED LINKS FOUND HERE: This link

There, that's the answer.
It might be static built up from cutting through the air as you reach a certain speed, like the speed of lightning or so, in a high humidity atmosphere.

[pk]

I think I heard one time that if you have power windows/locks, that it could also be from a small electrical problem.

pk

[keith]

Good ideas, thanks.

I'll let you know if the static guard works, too.

Regards,
Keith

[j10asen]

Originally Posted by keith

I haven't been able to get out of my car without getting shocked as I close the car door for weeks!

Someone suggested getting a spray can of static guard and I picked one up tonite. Hope it helps.

Another fellow says he just closes the door with his foot. If this is such a common problem, why can't car makers address it?

Any other suggestions to keep from getting static shocks?

Regards,
Keith

Keith, Perhaps you are sooooooooooooooooo full of energy that it sprews out from you all the time but you feel it when you have become ungrounded ( as in your car) and you reconnect (getting out of the car).

but wait I saw that photo with your naptop ,,opps I mean laptop.
nevermind........................................
do you have vinyl seats or leather seats?

[pk]

That's it! It's all from your magnetic personality.

:lol: :lol:

[AlumniClub]

To avoid shocks, close the door with the palm of your hand. This prevents shocking...at least that works for me.

[MrKhay]

I like those little tingly shocks...helps to keep it real! :P

[pk]

Is that what's called
'shock treatments'?

lol

[AlumniClub]

Keith,
Try this..
http://www.stopshox.com/

[MrKhay]

just suck it up!...not like it's going to kill you, or alter your behavior in any way! :lol:

[pk]

alter your behavior in any way

are you sure? I mean, can you be positive? Did you know Keith BEFORE his shock treatments???

Maybe the shocks has altered his behavior :?

Should he test this and stop for a month and see how he is?

Or maybe going cold turkey may harm him?

Ohhh...there must be a survey, or some kind of test or research on this subject...to be shocked or not from your car??

Could this be the next trivia question...can being shocked alter Keith?

lol

OK, just thought of something for the triiva since it is my turn...

[MrKhay]

The topic of Keith's behavior would almost lead a person to ask a "Rocky Horror Pictureshow" trivia question.
Consider shock treatment.

[pk]

OK, not funny but all day I kept getting 'shocks' from my van door.