I usually touch my covered elbow to a metal body part to discharge the static. Sure, you can still feel it, but you don't get that "thunderbolt" sensation like you would with a finger.

 

Good advice, Firewatcher!


Don't give other drivers the finger while exiting your HHR and you won't get zapped!!

 

To be selfishly honest, I am more concerned with the car attracting dust. It seems to get dirty very, very fast. I am hoping that it is due to static.

 

i have an LS , no roofrails and have the satin apperance pkg. and i get shocked all the time..... none of our other cars do this, its a mystery lol

 

Is anyone getting the shock with treated cloth seats? I got the paint, undercoating and cloth seats treated when I got my HHR.

 

My HHR is a 1LT, with chrome, roof rails, and untreated cloth interior. I haven't gotten shocked yet, but my wife does all the time...

 

Static build up is a problem here (Denver Metro) all the time due to low humidity. (not so much a problem in New Orleans) It also has to do with what you are wearing. (type of cloth) So far I have not had aproblem with my HHR, but I have the leather seats. Now our Maxx is something compleatly different. That thing will zap you a good one everytime you get out of it. Gets very annoying. I have also noticed that my HHR also collects dut at an alarming rate. Just thought it was Denver's low humidity.

 

The humidity is NEVER low in Miami. Yet still getting shocked!

 

So did this work out? I have the "cloth" seats (more like polyester) and I swear every time I get out, regardless of what I am wearing and in pretty much any weather, I light up! And these are nasty little shocks too! I hate the static strips that hang down but hell if they work, I'll do this too and mount one or two further up out of sight.

 

It's certainly dry here in the Phoenix area most of the time, but neither of us has ever got a shock getting in or out of the HHR, ( LS, cloth seats, no roof rails) I get it all the time though in the Super Market when I open the cooler doors to get some milk!
I might be showing my age here, but when I was a Kid I remember all the Gasoline Tank Trucks dragging a length of chain off the rear end, clanking along the road. A precurser to static straps I guess!