Re: Is it a short or is it static?

["Psychos 'R Us" <honge@creighton.edu>]

> > I'll have to check my 5ks in that area for possible damage too.
> >  But I don't think that a wiring fault would manifest itself as giving a 
> > shock (when touching metal).  That is most likely static charge.  My 5ks has 
> > cloth seats and now that the weather is cooler (dryer is the enabling 
> > factor) I get a GOOD ZAP getting out (not entering) this baby would draw an 
> > ARK !!!
> 
> Hmmm..   At first I thought it was just static too, and my friend and 
> I would wait for the other to get out first (to absorb the shock) but 
> then it kept getting us both anyway.  It was bad enought that I would 
> see arks too and even bad enought that when I put my key in to lock 
> the door it shocked me so bad that I dropped my keys.  Could this 
> much of a shock come from just static electricity?
> 
> Cindi 

Yup. This is pure static electricity stuff. The most common problem 
(although not the definite cause) is the tire. Of the various cars I have 
driven, I noticed that the cheaper the tire (those "long-life" tread 
tires, OEMs, etc.) will give the car a definite static personality. 
Secondary cause would be the combination of cloth seat and what you're 
wearing. Those fuzzy, cloth (I think they're actually 
nylon/acrylic/plasticky sort of cloth) give the best zap I ever got in my 
life (very common in American domistics with cloth interiors -- I got my 
best zaps in Caddilacs and Oldsmobiles).

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