O/T Shocking Chevy post - Thanks!

35oo volts is the point you achieve arch and can feel it. A "good" shock is about 10,000 volts (here, grab this coil wire!)

Although we think of tires as insulators they due contain some carbon black which is also used in armature brushes.

Man-made textiles (cloth seats williamf!) and plastics generate the most static. Leather the least.

Companies sell ankle and wrist straps so you can ground yourself (37 cheif) as well as ionic disapators.

Scariest was the video of a lady who got in her car while refueling, got back out and ignited the vapor at the filler with static (PEI say's "NEVER sit in your vehicle when refueling!")

I knew JDknut was on the right track with the chain (somehow I remember those, didn't they chew up the roads like studded tires?) I am going to attach two pcs of multi-strand copper wire behind my front mud flaps and let it drag.

Happy Static-free New Year to you all!
Bill

Simple grab the key, or something else bare metal as you slide out, and the static between you and the vehicle will be dissipated as it is generated, never building up to the point will you will feel it discharge.

That being said, for many years I had a 1976 Chevy pickup, sort of a worktruck with basic plastic material on the seat. Every darned time you'd get out in bitter cold, dry weather ZAP as you'd touch the door.

To prevent that, as long as you held onto the inside chrome door handle as you slid out, NO static and NO shock!

Problem is my entire interior is plastic and rubber so I'm half way out ofthe truck before I can grab the metal part of the door. I have stainless nerf bars on it so sometimes I get it in the back of the legs too. A few people in the original post do it and say the wire or chain works. It stands to reason if the wire bridges that gap between the vehicle and the ground (earth) then I don't have to be the one to do it. If it doesn't work I'll have to drive around naked!

Thanks,
Bill