I found the link starting to clean up my favorites the other day.
I noticed when I had a new car, with new tires I got shocked "all the
time" sometimes painfully so. (Applying more progesterone cream
lessened this some, so there is chemical actions at work too.)
My old truck, I never got shocks from till I got new tires not two
years ago. Now I do occasionally. Nice metal vehicle, with metal
dash.
I wonder, with the newer vehicles, being so much less metal in the
bodies too, if that affects the grounding,say in electric storms, or
downed power lines, as well as the old ones? Anyone up for a try? ;)
http://www.cartalk.com/content/columns/Archive/1997/May/18.html~ Snoshoe
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[hidden email], "Ian Kemp" <ianandsue.kemp@...> wrote:
>
> Yes, that's right. One builds up a charge of static electricity
when
> sitting in the car by moving about on the upholstery. Then when we
get out
> and touch the car, it is properly grounded, but we are not, so we
get a
> spark. Which adds to the point that in this case, the tyre
material is
> irrelevant, because the car is grounding OK. Maybe we should
say "the car
> gets an electrical shock from us"!
>
> Ian
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