well if it's been covered a million times, I kinda dont want to read thru all those...

seriously tho. it's dry cold weather. I have rubber mats. doesnt really help. As I get out of my car I rap my knucles or tips of my finger nails on the rear driver's side door softly. It disperses the static without hurting..

 

i get then a lot especially recently..i wonder what it is....i was starting to think that mt system wasnt gronded right or something

 

has a lot to do with dragging your **** when you are getting out of the car.

Just put a hand on the roof as you get out and you'll be just fine and dandy.

 

ive always wondering why i would get shocked, about 6 months ago i got into the habbit of shutting my door by the door handles (there plastic) now i never get shocked. works like a charm

 

I have never had this problem with any other car. Some of the sparks I have blasted are insane. I don't know the exact cause but there is definitely a design flaw. {To bad the lancer wasn't out when they made the movie "Back to the Future", screw the lightning bolt all Marty would have had to do was get in and out of the car a few times.}

 

I had the same problem in my Corsica, in my friends Honda, one of my friends with a Spec V has the problems.. etc...

 

ya i get lit up in the evo also

 

i used to have an antenna thing for my civic. it had a resistor in it, which would capture the static electricity and store it, and when there was enough electricity, it would discharge it into a light bulb, dissipating the electricity.

i'm not entirely sure if it worked the way it was supposed to, but i never got shocked in my old car.

also, those rubber straps that you attach to your bumper and touch the ground are supposed to eliminate static too, no?

 

the bumper straps is for a different thing. If you buy cheap non-metalized tires (which are hard to get these days) they actually build up a rather significant electric charge because they don't conduct off the excess electrons to the ground that develops from the wind passing over the car and the rubber against the road. Which believe it or not really does happen, it's just a small effect that builds up over time. Those straps were to dissipate that charge imbalance to the ground.

More than likely though the shock we get is purely from our bodies rubbing on the seats. The velour on the seats is a notorious type of fabric for that problem.

 

Get leather seats... voila, problem solved.