MVP

my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
may cause it.

your thoughts ladies and gentlemen please, before it starts zapping me
too.

PS, maybe it heard me mention the possibility of getting a disco that
upset it.... jealous things land rovers...


Regards.
Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)
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johnty

"MVP" <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> wrote in message
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> my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
> out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
> usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
> assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
> earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
> holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
> it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
> may cause it.
>
> your thoughts ladies and gentlemen please, before it starts zapping me
> too.
>
> PS, maybe it heard me mention the possibility of getting a disco that
> upset it.... jealous things land rovers...
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)
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You say its a recent thing....how recent ? Since you had the new tyres
fitted perhaps ?

I seem to remember reading somewhere how different tyre compounds insulating
the vehicle and allowing a static charge to build up etc

Perhaps she needs to wear better insulated shoes !!!

Richard Brookman

So johnty was, like

> > I seem to remember reading somewhere how different tyre compounds
> > insulating the vehicle and allowing a static charge to build up etc
>
> Perhaps she needs to wear better insulated shoes !!!

Or just don't let her out.

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jamsan

I have the same with my Toyota.
Only I get shocked and not my wife.
Usually depends what you are wearing as u slide out of the seat, the more
synthetic the better the charge.
I get a hell of a belt especially in summer months.
No solution other than pushing the door closed by touching the rubber strip
instead of body panel.
Good luck
James
Richard Brookman <newsboy@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> So johnty was, like
>
> > > I seem to remember reading somewhere how different tyre compounds
> > > insulating the vehicle and allowing a static charge to build up etc
> >
> > Perhaps she needs to wear better insulated shoes !!!
>
> Or just don't let her out.
>
> --
>
> Rich
>
> Pas d'elle yeux Rhone que nous
>
>

EMB

MVP wrote:
> my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
> out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
> usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
> assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
> earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
> holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
> it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
> may cause it.
>
> your thoughts ladies and gentlemen please, before it starts zapping me
> too.

Trade the wife in for a non-conductive model? :-)


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Huw

"EMB" <embtwo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> MVP wrote:
>> my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
>> out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
>> usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
>> assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
>> earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
>> holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
>> it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
>> may cause it.
>>
>> your thoughts ladies and gentlemen please, before it starts zapping me
>> too.
>
> Trade the wife in for a non-conductive model? :-)
>
>

Not politically correct but a good seeing-to usually sorts them out and is
less bother than trading in.

Only kidding GDARFC.

Huw

Austin Shackles

On or around Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:56:56 -0500, "jamsan"
<jamsan@freemail.absa.co.za> enlightened us thusly:

>I have the same with my Toyota.
>Only I get shocked and not my wife.
>Usually depends what you are wearing as u slide out of the seat, the more
>synthetic the better the charge.
>I get a hell of a belt especially in summer months.
>No solution other than pushing the door closed by touching the rubber strip
>instead of body panel.

make sure you hold a bare metal bit of the body (door latch plate is good)
as you get out until you're standing on the ground.
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:12:22 +0000, MVP <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net>
wrote:

>my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
>out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
>usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
>assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
>earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
>holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
>it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
>may cause it.
>
>
Tell her stop wearing nylon knickers.

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In news:co61315dbjn63b84popca747d4c03j3io4@4ax.com,
MVP <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net> blithered:
> my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
> out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
> usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
> assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
> earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
> holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
> it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
> may cause it.
>
> your thoughts ladies and gentlemen please, before it starts zapping me
> too.
>
> PS, maybe it heard me mention the possibility of getting a disco that
> upset it.... jealous things land rovers...
>
>
> Regards.
> Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.)

What you need is a resistive pad attatched to whatever she has hold of when she
gets zapped, that'll reduce the discharge to a more comfortable level. Many
vehicles where zapping is prevelent have such pads on the door pulls and the like.

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:12:22 +0000, MVP <mr.nice@*nospam*softhome.net>
wrote:

>my wife keeps getting a little static zap from the door when she gets
>out, I think it may be just that door or maybe it's because she
>usually gets out before me (shame that heheheh).. ahem. anyway,
>assuming it's just the door I imagine it's a case of making sure it's
>earthed to the rest of the body. but if it's the whole body that's
>holding a bit of static charge then how do I deal with it? what causes
>it? it's a fairly recent quirk but I can't think what has changed that
>may cause it.
>
>your thoughts ladies and gentlemen please, before it starts zapping me
>too.
>


I have the same problem at work thanks to the cheap NHS blankets we
carry on the vehicle.
I find that if I touch my ring to something metal, it earths through
that and doesn't hurt as the ring is tight against my finger.

D