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Sporks MP5
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- Mazda Protege 5
Unless you shock yourself in the process and jolt your hand through the glass.
ogilybogil
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- 2002.5 White P5
shocks the hell out of me too. Funny s***.
My car shocks the s*** out of me..god damn cursed mazdas..
Roywhitep5
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- 2007 350z
its funny that this topic came up. i was going to make a thread about it and saw this one.
the way to not get shocked is to take your key and hold it by the plastic part and touch the metal part of the door with the key. theres a pop but you wont get shocked. i've gotten into the habbit of doing this
the way to not get shocked is to take your key and hold it by the plastic part and touch the metal part of the door with the key. theres a pop but you wont get shocked. i've gotten into the habbit of doing this
If you want to avoid shocks, take a dryer sheet and rub down the seats every once-in-a-while. They're made to eliminate static cling, and you know the won't harm fabrics. You can even keep one tucked up under the seat, although your car will smell like freshly cleaned clothes if it's potent.
a good way to not get shocked is to get into the habit of touching the metal right next to the A pillar as you put your foot on the ground before you get out of the car. It grounds you, so you won't get shocked once you go to close the door. I got into the habit of doing this.. and if you go to grab right where the rubber on the door hits the door jam, you won't leave finger prints where it is visible.
dang!
i read every reply in this thread after getting a search query result for SHOCK. when i finished reading all the posts i was disappointed to hear no answer for totally solving THE SHOCK! my friends even started complaining about it so i m getting a little bit aggravated.
anyway this happend to me a lot with my previous car which was a 1993 1.9 DOHC (cyl head had ford logo on it but i think it was actually a mazda motor???) so yeah it was a Mercury Tracer Wagon =) with (((bomp))) in the tronk too. i really don t think it could be from a sound sys. prolly the static from the seats i guess. hey anybody sporting aftermarket seat covers been getting the shock?
frankly i m tired of it and i deem "THE SHOCK!" unacceptable. even though all the suggested solutions are good work arounds, it become a mission to eliminate the shock with out the means of cognizantly grounding ones self etc. i m also quite concerned now at the fuel pump where the shock could become BOOM!
(uhm)
i read every reply in this thread after getting a search query result for SHOCK. when i finished reading all the posts i was disappointed to hear no answer for totally solving THE SHOCK! my friends even started complaining about it so i m getting a little bit aggravated.
anyway this happend to me a lot with my previous car which was a 1993 1.9 DOHC (cyl head had ford logo on it but i think it was actually a mazda motor???) so yeah it was a Mercury Tracer Wagon =) with (((bomp))) in the tronk too. i really don t think it could be from a sound sys. prolly the static from the seats i guess. hey anybody sporting aftermarket seat covers been getting the shock?
frankly i m tired of it and i deem "THE SHOCK!" unacceptable. even though all the suggested solutions are good work arounds, it become a mission to eliminate the shock with out the means of cognizantly grounding ones self etc. i m also quite concerned now at the fuel pump where the shock could become BOOM!
(uhm)
Iv'e got WEt Okole neoprene covers, and get shocked all the time. I've just gotten into the habit of touching my key to the doorframe before I get outof my car. It's really popular incanada for some reason, but I've seen alotta ppl running "grounding straps" which are basically a piece of something or other that hangs down from your car and legitimately drags on the ground all the time. Perhaps it's got some merit I always thought it was goofy.
sounds goofy to me too...i dont know if i would like dragging a strap on the ground all the time. ive pretty much just learned to live with it. but the crazy thing is that it is totally random now. some days it will shock the hell out of me, some days it wont shock me at all. it doesnt even really shock my wife anymore, just me now(which is funny cuz it used to only shock her and not me).
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try static guard, spray it on your seats, it works...check this info out:
"One problem that is often experienced is that when you get out of the car, you get a shock on touching the door to close it. The source is usually static charges which build up between your body and the car seat while you are in the seat, but remain harmlessly neutralised until you get up. At that time, you take considerable electric charge with you as you get out of the car. If the charge has no discharge path, then a very high voltage (several thousand Volts) can build up very quickly. When you reach for the door, the high voltage causes a spark which discharges you quickly to the car - giving you a shock in the process.(Many people cannot feel shocks with discharges of less than about 4000 Volts!). One solution is to make sure you hold onto the metal door frame as you get out of the seat, allowing yourself to harmlessly discharge slowly as you get up."
"One problem that is often experienced is that when you get out of the car, you get a shock on touching the door to close it. The source is usually static charges which build up between your body and the car seat while you are in the seat, but remain harmlessly neutralised until you get up. At that time, you take considerable electric charge with you as you get out of the car. If the charge has no discharge path, then a very high voltage (several thousand Volts) can build up very quickly. When you reach for the door, the high voltage causes a spark which discharges you quickly to the car - giving you a shock in the process.(Many people cannot feel shocks with discharges of less than about 4000 Volts!). One solution is to make sure you hold onto the metal door frame as you get out of the seat, allowing yourself to harmlessly discharge slowly as you get up."
Bingo. It has absolutly nothing to do with the audio system or any other elctrical system in the car. YOu could even touch your battery terminals at the same time so long as your not wet and you will feel nothing as human skin isn't a very good consuctor. This also means that it won't absord elctricity either so static builds up on us and the first time we touch something metal to discharge it, is when we touch the door getting out of the car.ChuEy826 said:
Simply touch any grounded metal before getting up and you will not be shocked. Doing this brings you back to the same potential as the car even as you get out, so long as your constanly holding metal. I tend to grab my roof or a pillar.
Also a grounding strap won't do anything as this is static electcity in refernce to the cars voltage potential, not the grounds.
Are you sure a ground strap wouldn't work? I know back in the day gasoline trucks used to drag brass chains behind them (brass, not steel so they wouldn't spark) which were later replaced with ground straps. I had understood that the reason was to ground static electricity to prevent the accidental ignition of fuel vapors around the vehicle but I could be wrong.
