Static electric shocks!

[softlad]

Is it just me or is anyone else afraid to get out of there Leon R as you get electrocuted if you touch the door to close it?.

Seems everytime I get out my car I get a right static shock!

I have the cloth seats and even tried wearing different clothes but I tend to build up electric charge!

 

[edc]

Simple. B4 you put your feet on the ground outside the car maintain a grip on the metal door frame, let go when your feet/foot is on the tarmac.

 

[LEO LION R]

I get it everytime i kiss my wife in the car

 

[Dormouse]

I have the cloth seats and even tried wearing different clothes but I tend to build up electric charge!

Ever though of selling yourself to the National Grid?

Or jump starting your own car when the battery runs out?

Dor.

 

[Saul]

i get them all the time, if i go near the fax machine i get one, or the filing cabinets, get out of my car and get them too

my arms spend the day being numb, its bad tho when you spark off the coffe machine

 

[Stokesy]

You should stop wearing sooo much polyester lads!!

 

[Deejay]

everyones resistance to electricity is different,thats why
some do and some don't get em.
I can measure your resistance if your that interested,but it may hurt

To avoid static build up a decent earth path is required to dissipate
static charge build up away.

Saul:the reason why some get static shocks off office equipment is
that they expel a leakage to earth (earth leakage) especially computers.Ever thought of getting a new job as a dynamo!
You can get a static shock by touching something at a different potential to yourself(either you are statically charged or the material you are touching)

 

[max_torque]

Originally posted by Saul

its bad tho when you spark off the coffe machine

must be a bit dangerous at your local petrol station! - BOOM!

 

[Yak]

I get shocked (electrically) every time I get out of the car. I'm scared to touch it.

When I waxed the car I was supprised at how much of a static charge it created. The cotton polishing cloth fibres were sticking to the car.
Might have to get one of those eathing rods you used to see as a kid hanging off the back of Ford Escorts!!!:devil:

 

[Dormouse]

i get them all the time, if i go near the fax machine i get one, or the filing cabinets, get out of my car and get them too

That's why your coil packs failed m8. They were feeling jealous!

Dor.

 

[Garth]

I get a shock every time I get out of my car. I've never had this on any of my other cars, or anyone elses cars.

I've concluded it's a SEAT Ibiza thing!!

 

[NINGER]

Get them all the time from my Leon Cupra R, I think its something to do with the seats??

 

[Black20VT]

I used to get it in my Golf MKII aswell.

I always thought it was my footware rubbing on the mats? :dunno:

 

[softlad]

the touching the metal and getting out has solved the problem but there are ocassions were you forget (take this lunch time) and you get a shock out of the blue which is worse than when you expect it!.

 

[ChrisG]

I get em all the time in mine, noticed it more in the last month or so, didnt really notice it over the winter, so maybe its atmospherically (long word for this time of day!) related as well as seats / clothes etc.
I will have to try the "hold the door then get out" routine - I assume you still dissipate the static, just dont get the initial arc across to your finger. Its either that or start wearing wellies

Chris

 

[LDoR]

Try wearing differeng shoes, as the different material in the soles seem to have an effect on static shocks!!!

 

[jesta1865]

i don't think the weather has helped, its got really bad on mine over the last couple of weeks, and now its got colder and rained again, its not happening so much.

mind you i got them off of my discovery as well, and great chunks of that were aluminimum, and a huge wodge of steel thrown in for good measure

 

[Audi4Fan]

Install a anti static strap like the antistatic strap mizter.
They ground a vehicle and dissipate static electricity.

 

[SalSheikh]

i get this too and started a thread about this about 2 weeks ago. the touch the car and then put your foot on the floor didnt work for me, change of footwear did but sometimes i wanna wear different shoes and then get shocks. have bought the anti static strip but havent fitted it yet.