i keep getting shocked when i get out of my car, this is starting....no this is pissing my off. is this because i have cloth seats or what? does anyone have any ideas on what i can do to stop this.

 

I never get shocked in any car, including the Z. But I see some car with this kinda flat wire always trailing in the back. At first I thought it was a curb backing up sensor, but my friend told me it is for people who get shocked a lot when getting out of their cars.

So I guess there is such a thing...

 

used to happen to me with cars with cloth seats.... I was told to touch a part of the car that's metal and hold before your foot touches the ground.
Don't know why, but it works for me.

 

check your wiring... i doubt the CAUSE is cuz of the cloth seats. if u want to avoid it, just jump out with ur whole body out of the car... meaning make sure ur not grounding the electricity with one foot in the car and the other out. ya it's basically impossible with a car like the 350z.

 

Granted I've only had my Z a bit over a month, this has never happened to me.

 

This used to happen to me in my Tundra. Get a spray bottle, dilute some fabric softener in it, and mist it over your seats/floor mats... getting a dryer sheet and rubbing your seats/mats with it apparently works but I've never tried it...

*edit* It may take a few applications, but it eventually went away...

 

these are good ideas folks, keep them comming, im like a mad man with dryer sheets right now.

 

It is static electricity. Some people's bodies have a tendency to store electricity better than others, kinda like a capacitor. When condidtions are right, for example: The air is dry, you have clothing on that causes a lot of friction, and you move around in your car seat(cloth) your body will store electricity. Of course when you exit you vehicle and touch the out side of the door your body discharges the electrostatic discharge because you have just provided a path to ground by touching the car. Your feet can not provide the path because you have shoes on which insulate your feet from the earth. Washing you clothes with fabric softner will help alieviate some of the buildup in your body. Good luck.

 

I hold onto the door **** as I get up off of the seat. Seems to work for me with most cars that typically give me that static shock.

 

It's not the wiring and it's not the cloth seats. I've had this happen to me in many different types of cars so I'm just in the habit now of grabbing metal before and during my first step out of the car as mentioned before. It works for me.

 

My wife gets shocked by the door handle as she closes the car by the handle.



She now closes the door be pushing on the door panel next to the handle that is a painted surface. That fine by me, it keeps her grubby fingerprints off my satin door handles.

I wonder why Nissan didn't paint the handles? I guess because of the design in the handle and the other satin pieces on the car.

 

Haha it's so funny that you posted this because I was just about to before I saw the topic. I get shocked everyday and it's a bit annoying so I'm going to try everything everyone has posted. It's not fair, why does my body have to carry electricty better than my girlfriends...she never gets shocked.

 

Guys, your are building a charge as your pants slide along the seat...

Change pants...

 

I am shocked to read this post.

 

there was a similar post about this about 6 months ago and I believe the only unproved prognosis had something to do with the A/C...something about the ions or this or that. I don't really remember and I couldn't find that last post about it (although there are many others on the subject).

Items that weren't the isolated cause:
Cloth seats
Dry climate
Aluminum pedals
Your Z doesn't like you

Possible cures:
rubbing static dryer sheets on your seats and carpets
spraying a noncondusive paint on your doors/handles
only using the nonmetal parts of you inner door panel when closing the doors
jump out of your Z, let gravity/momentum close the door, then go and shock the first person you see...

 

Lol same thing used to happe n to me

 

No need to dwell on this cuz all it is is static electricity, simple as that. Your body gets charged up when you slide around your cloth seats depending on what material your clothes are.. and when you touch the metal part of the car (metal conducts electricity) and thus a lil bolt of static travels to the metal part and VIOLA BUZZZZZZZ, static electricity at work.... THE END

 

Thanks for answering my life long question. I wonder what the frack it was.

BTW 2years + and haven't got shock yet. Probably will now since I hear stories about it.

 

Agree. Put one leg out of the car. Touch you foot to the ground, and the back of your calf to the body of the car. Touch one finger to the door handle. Get out of the car completely without removing your finger from the door handle.

 

I think the lesson here is go leather so instead of getting shocked your a$$ can burn during the summer.