It`s your shoes. I have a pair for around the house/town, and a pair for work. Every time I wear the leisure shoes I get shocked. Guaranted. It`s the shoes rubbing on the carpet/floor mats. Change shoes, see what happens.

 

You're likely right, but what I'm interested in is a solution since I can't wear only a certain shoe when I drive. Now there's a thought...driving shoes...maybe matching my driving gloves!!

 

You`ve got to try another pair of shoes, like an experiment. Just do it. You can get a different sole type, unless... you really like getting shocked..!!!??

 

i have taken to shutting the door either by grasping the door locks and giving them a little pull (making sure to remove my arm real quick) or by pulling on the inside handle and moving real fast. I am afraid to touch the outside of the car when i get out. NEVER FAILS i have not once NOT gotten shocked when touching the metal surface of the car. my window also has alot of finger prints in it b/c sometimes i shut it the doors that way. it doesn't matter what i'm wearing either. Heels, sneakers, boots, flip flops, cotton, leather, (o.k i don't wear leather but if i did, i'd probably still get shocked) my truck was the same way only not as often.

 

I'm usually getting the crap shocked out of me all the time with static, but I haven't noticed it at all in the car.

 

Static electricity is a killer on aircraft. Just a mili volt will fry a computer. It was so bad in the "Old Days" (Round Motors), some guys were knocked off there feet when exiting an aircraft. One solution was the addition of "Static Discharge Wicks", very important when struck by lightening in flight.
Another solution is a piece of cable attached to the landing gear of the A/C. Normally NLG. Or frame of the car, small, barley noticable, but you must be sure to clean the metal where the cable attaches to the frame, then paint over it for corrosion protection. When moving, will weather vane out of sight, when static will touch pavement and discharge any positive electrons. Allows you to enter and exit skock free. Hope this helps.

 

driving shoes..with the toes cut off to match the driving gloves with the fingers cut off...makes me hope that guys don't decide to start wearing driving pants...providing a discharge path to the ground does work, we even would hang a chain from the car frames to a small puddle of water when we were painting cars, just an extra method to stop dust attraction...via static.

 

Try the Shoes !!!!!

 

When I added the dual exhaust last Thursday, I removed the static strip. Since then, I have noticed that the car is more dusty. I am going to put it back under the car somewhere, perhaps on the rear crossmember. It really did seem to help, believe it or not. (No, I am NOT going to add those curb feelers.)

 

The last two Malibus I've had gave us shocks like you wouldn't believe. Didn't matter how I got out of the cars, I still got blasted. Didn't matter which types of shoes or boots I wore either.

I have to admit though, that it was pretty cool seeing the blue spark coming off my elbow going right through my heavy winter jacket (I'm easily amused )

I've only had the HHR for 4 days, and have been zapped quite nastily several times, so I picked up a static strip today for our HHR.

Now I have to wait for the local monsoon to dissipate so I can crawl under the HHR and install it before the snow flies.