Who the hell gets shocked when they get out their car and right when they touch their door to close it, ZAP! static electricity? What the hell causes this static? I swear, it's strong sometimes too!

 

happens to me all the time. I just pull my sleeves down a lil more and cover my hands while I close the door

 

it happens from the build up of static electricity from your butt dragging across the seat and if the first thing you touch is metal itll shock you. try touching the door panel first before gettign out.

odd post lol

 

I touch the door super duper fast so it will shock me so fast that my brain wont detect it.

 

I always get shocked, I just close the door by my window and it won't shock me.

EDIT: I don't have an integra, but I still get shocked.

 

i never have...
I may just be used to it since I stock bread as a weekend job since Im still in school and I get shocked probably 2-300 times each time I go to work..

 

mostly from your feet on the carpet.

i get shocked depending on the shoes im wearing

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by psychoticmindset &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">happens to me all the time. I just pull my sleeves down a lil more and cover my hands while I close the door </TD></TR></TABLE>I do the same thing, or I touch my door with my arm before I close my door.

 

true...**** happens to me all the time...its kind of funny when your in a busy lot and it happens and you look up and mad people just saw you flinch for what they think is nothing...lmao its funny

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Code Blue &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">mostly from your feet on the carpet.

i get shocked depending on the shoes im wearing</TD></TR></TABLE>

Me too. If I am wearing skateboarding shoes, oh man im in for a treat. Like my Geoff Rowleys, they have a high grip compound that build up a huge amount of friction, thus static electricity. When i wear dunks, or my shell-toes i dont get shocked. I thought this only happened to me, hahah.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hotsuma23 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Me too. If I am wearing skateboarding shoes, oh man im in for a treat. Like my Geoff Rowleys, they have a high grip compound that build up a huge amount of friction, thus static electricity. When i wear dunks, or my shell-toes i dont get shocked. I thought this only happened to me, hahah.</TD></TR></TABLE>
I've never been shocked exiting my teg, and I wear Vans, or are those not considered skater shoes any more? Damn, now I feel old. Wonder if my leather helps with the static...

 

that's why you take your key and touch it to a metal part of the car when you get out before you close the door. zaps the key and not you.

just make sure that you're fingers are touching the metal part of the key too, not just the plastic, or it won't work.

 

No, Geoff Rowleys are vans shoes, just they are more 'extreme' grip shoes i guess i dont know, they are real sticky. Also you have leather seats so i think that helps w/ you not getting shocked.

 

This makes me glad I have gsr leathers. Them saving me from excruciating shocks definately outweighs sliding all over the place during corners. yeah right...

 

dude, every time i get out of my car, i get painfully shocked. i'm talking like i can hear it. i try to close the door by pushing on the windshield

 

Here is what you do when getting out of the car:

Turn off the car
Open the door
Hold onto some metal part of the car on your way out of the car
When you get out to actually close the door, you shouldn't be shocked.

 

ahhh, i'll have to try that. the shocks i've been getting could re-start a heart

 

i hate that! before i got rid of my leather, it never happend except when i wore my north face fleece OUCH!!! but now i have cloth sparcos and it happens ALL the Fing time

 

I thought I was the only one getting shocked dude WTF ?

 

I get shocked getting out of any car that doesn't have leather.

My solution for my hatch was replace the seats with leather.
Still need to change the seats in the teg to leather.

What seems to work for me is have one hand on the frame as i get out, then reach for the door and shut it. Don't get shocked that way. Atleast not as bad as just reaching for the door after getting out.

 

Good post
It's weird though, seems like it never usta happen but for the last few months it happens like clock work when i exit the car. I must be losing my mind.

 

man forget being shocked, look at that *** on dirtyricans profile....GODDAMN

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dirtyrican987 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yea it happens to the best of us. if you ever read the gas pump while your pumping it says you should make sure u touch metal b4 pumping because of that static that builds up. I notice it more now that i have my jeep (clothe seats) than i did when i had my integra b4 i crashed it (gsr leathers) so its definatly a clothe thing</TD></TR></TABLE>


That's one of those urban legends/myths..

I think I saw an episode of Myth Busters on TV and they busted that myth.


This thread is funny...I was just getting annoyed earlier how after I got out of my car, my basketball shorts were hugging my legs from the accumulated static. And I shocked my friend

 

i started getting shocked after i ran an amplifier for my speakers. but not all the time, it's kinda weird

 

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i have leather and i still get shocked like a ****... it's been happening on every car i go into.. wtf.. how can i stop this?

oh and try this.. if you're wearing fleece or something that has crazy static, at night time, turn off the lights, take off the sweater.. it's like a fricken fireworks show. you actually see the static electricity.