Static electricity shock when exiting car and touching door—how to prevent it?

you probably can't help it, I have it too, my fingers hurt from it, but I will say that changing clothes will help - so I heard, apparently the reason is here

but we got together

KERS is screwing you up ;-)

But seriously: the car and clothes are static. I had the same and the bar helped. It is true that it did not eliminate the phenomenon in 100%, but it definitely weakened it. Important - good contact with the car body.

I put on a belt and nothing helped, and when I get out and don't forget, the first one, I touch the door with my whole hand, then it hurts less, hahaha

ajpier wrote:

Well, here it was, and when it kicked me it was helped by the replacement of the brake shoes {the replacement was intended but the effect was not anymore}.

joke?

yes i think what does this have to do but let me tell you that this case affects a lot of drivers and there is no answer as such

wopor wrote:

Hello, only advice, the seat, or rather the cover, should be earthed to the body, the mask should also be connected to the rest of the body with an additional cable, good luck

I don't think it will do anything anyway. For example, in R. Lagunach, the seats are factory-grounded to the car body, and the car is backed up anyway. In my Doll, I used to have antistatic straps bolted to the seat bolts (they stick out under the car in this model) and massaged with the body, and it did not do much. She was kicking nice.

It's a piece of cake, I get out of the car without touching the door, grab the gun from the distributor and ..... a shot, what do you say?

Or maybe the reason is that as a result of rubbing the tires on the asphalt, the entire body, including the driver who is inside the vehicle, electrifies. The load cannot discharge due to the fact that the tires are made of a fairly good insulator (when it is wet, the "digging" effect does not occur ). Before leaving the car (not on the asphalt, but on a different surface - better conducting electricity), you should try to drop a piece of wire to the ground and touch it to the insulated metal part of the body. If a kicking effect occurs after such a test, the cause will be in the combination of clothing material and upholstery material.

romoo wrote:

Laguna II ........ mmm. I can see that I'm not the only one who has this problem,

Perhaps this is my subjective feeling, but no other brand of cars with comparable dimensions kicks as hard and often as Safrane and Laguna.
The lagoon can tickle the driver after driving 100m, saving the passenger who gets off first.

Colleague is right. I also noticed that the kick effect is smaller when he grabs the plate of the door and then the legs to the ground. I have a less sophisticated way, I push the glass away with my elbow. Elbow because there are no mazy on the glass

However, I am inclined to the theory with an electrified body while driving. For users who experience such unpleasant events, I suggest the following experiment: In a situation where the car usually "kicks", before leaving the car, someone brave from family or friends has to stand next to the car and touch it. If the "kick" is felt by the person outside, not by the driver at the exit. it will mean that the car body was electrified. The poor performance of antistatic strips can be explained by the fact that a hot and dry surface (asphalt, concrete) is not always a good "ground" and rather moving such a strip across, for example, grass will only discharge the charge accumulated on the car body.

In support of this theory, it can be mentioned that the drier the air, the stronger the sensations, and clothing can only intensify this effect. There are no such effects on cold or humid days.