...So ever since I've owned my Z every time I get out, I get the Wank shocked outta me. And it's not just a little buzz from the static build up getting out of the seat, I'm talking make-your-hair-stand-on-end-involuntary-spasm shock. I've checked all the grounds and they seem fine. Stereo is stock.... Just wondering if this is a common problem, see if anyone can give me a heads-up before I startd re-wireing stuff. Thanks!
yeah, happens to me all the time.... i feel your pain
usually just the weather... i've been getting a lot of static shocks lately.
Ok so I'm not the only one, that make's me feel a bit better, I can't say the same about my nervous system though... But still, I don't want to be one of those guys with the dorky static buffer hanging from the rear bumper mount...I'll live with it....
Thanks guys!
Very dry in Colorado...I get two shocks...one on the inside of the door, when I push it open, and the other on the outside when I close it...
...Guess they're just not heart pacer friendly cars...
i was going to ask this same question, i just figured it was because im a hairy guy. But its done it to me on all three of the j's that i have owned, and now that i think about it, it hasn't done it to me on any other car ive owned or friend/family's cars.
Stick your leg out of the car. Place it on the ground, and place your calf against the car. Get out. You should feel the static discharge through your calf (multiple times, but not nearly as strong as the single shock). Keep your calf against the car until you grab the door and close it. Done and done.
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lol damn, yeah everyone has this problem,
I just let my g/f get out first haha
Good old dry weather. My static sort of goes away in summer, but in winter I am in for it. I've had painfully unbearable shocks before. I always grab the top part of my car as I get out... that way I am holding onto something metal. There's this spray that is for static.. I forget the name, but it comes in a blue bottle with and orange lid. I usually spray my car seat down with it and my hair.. lol.. makes the static not AS bad, but it's still there.
The shock even goes right thru my coat!!...i was even thinking about getting a set of those rubber strips that drag on the ground. But they look really ugly..oh well.
neevr had a shock with my sunbird my grand or my cavy
the corvette well i dunno how a fiberglass car can make sparks like this travel to my hands!!
haha thats funny it happens to me all the time I alwys just figured it was my hairy ass
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Raptor wrote:Stick your leg out of the car. Place it on the ground, and place your calf against the car. Get out. You should feel the static discharge through your calf (multiple times, but not nearly as strong as the single shock). Keep your calf against the car until you grab the door and close it. Done and done.
I'm serious. This works. Try it.
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the stuff in the blue bottle is called STATIC GUARD...used to use it all the time in Vermont during the winters working around computers..its good stuff~
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yea this is common on j's. i have never had a problem though. every once and a while but thats about it.
man i sometimes get some wicked shocks from my car. Like the kind that you feel travel through your body to the ground. I found the best thing to do is open the door, dont touch the car, and when i close it, i use the rubber on my shoe. No shocks.
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ive never been shocked by my car but my g/f gets shocked all the time
she was blaming my car then we were driving her moms accord and we get out and yah she got shocked again so i dno
i get it alot too. it get me and my gf all the time
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it's not ghetto, it's "in progress"
i work at staples and the floor is all carpet in the store, imagine how that feels after an 8 hour shift
racing a ford is like racing a fat kid.
damn i get this too all the time.
my best solution was just to get out of the car with out touching metal and then close the door by pushing the window to close it.
i'm baaaaack!!
close the door by the doorhandle..its plastic.. no shock
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i get shocked all the time by those two little screws inside the door thing that you supposed to use to close the door. i just put alittle napkin in it , no shock.
USe the biggest key you got and place it about an inch away from the door. You will see the shock go fromt he key to the door. Looks like a small lighting bolt well with me it does. Or the calf thing works also
