My sister has a Civic and whenever she is going to get in her car or get out of it, she gets buzzed. Her car is a 2002. It is a constant problem, not a problem static build up. Shocks me too.

Do any of you have any experience with this problem? Thanks in advance.

 

she is grounding out the electricity carried by her body into the car.

 

I doubt she is that "charged up"

 

Earth yourself before you touch the car, and see if you still get shocked... Check the earths on the car too, to the battery terminal.

 

Everybody that postedis right. But she won't remember eveytime to ground herself when getting out of the car. Most people are thinking about important stuff like not locking your keys in the car..

This will fix your sisters problem. There are a lot of different contributing factors from the the type of tires to the humidity in the air to the type of synthetic material in your clothes. In this picture the ground strap looks stupid hanging out of the tail end like this. If you mount it up under the center of the car somewhere it won't really be noticable. While driving they kind of quietly flap around, then when you stop it will touch the ground and the car will release all the static charge through it instead of your sister. Been around forever. Lots of older cars used to come with these things right out of the factory.

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i kind of laughed at this, its happend to me to, its probably just like rubbing your feet on the carpet and then shocking someone. same thing here, just with shocking yourself.

 

ya but i dont think those ground straps work to good.....
all shes gotta do is just LEARN. LMFAO its like OK when i get out and then grab the door i get shocked... and when you grab the door and then get out you do get shocked... OK YEAHHHHH LMFAO

 

i got this problem as well, sometimes its so strong that i actually see the spark!!!

 

then just grab the door BEFORE you step out..... then it wont spark your hands....
its a very common issue with just about EVERY car out thier..... thats why your not suposed to fill up gas cans inside your car from static electricity.....


after geting zaped afew times you should learn how to avoid it yourself

for instance when i get outta my civic i have my hand inside the handle and touch the metal screw that holds the cover to the door... and when i step out NO SPARK....
you only get the spark when you have your feet/foot is on the ground and then you reach for the door and touch a metal part which sparks ya.....