on my almost-ten-years-old-barely-useable-satria-non-neo, i rarely get a static charge, but driving my wife's nissan grand lavina, sometimes i don't get a static charge, sometimes i get it a few times a day.
any tips or tricks or gadgets i can install to not get me shocked?

i never get it before. but my frens keep telling me they got it. if they hadn't told me, i didnt even know it will happen.

might be yr speaker wires, touching the door. I kena before

car body not grounded properly... try installing grounding cable... should have improvement...

another way is try to put the thing that always seen on wiralution...i also dunno what the name is...they put some kind of stripe at the back of the car and touching the ground...

rubber strap can conduct electricity??

it not rubber stripe actually...i oso dunno what it is made...but it can stand to be drag on the road...don't use steel chain...it too obvious and look like lorry

TS this has nothing to do with the car, your body has high static currents & discharging it to the car instead. (metal parts)

Read more about it under health section:
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=488752&hl=
http://www.static-sol.com/articles/static_shocks.htm

Static discharge & electric discharge are different:
Static discharge wll give out a spark only once, through human body to any metal parts or from human to human.

Electric discharge stays on the metal or glass surface whenever electricity is turned ON (AC/DC) . You can use a test pen to check. Most probably the item is not grounded properly.

I always get static discharge in my office door knob & cubicle.
Last time I had an electric shock on my CRT glass monitor & a metal cover on my home amplifier.

True and maybe not true.

In the car, since our bodies are rubbing with the seat etc then electrostatic will buildup and discharge when we touch metal when exiting car.

But, our moving vehicle will generate electrostatic when it 'rub' with air or tyres friction with road - it's dangerous, that why fuel tanker use metal or rubber strap to ground/discharge them.

Personal experience, I still get shocked from electrostatic charge sometime when exiting. FYI, I am as driver I am sure I am electrostaticly clean as I turn off the ignition key (my key is bare metal)

... after reading this so tempted to buy an antistatic grounding strap. I am sure they are useful, the tanker has it, rally car has it - I don't think the factory machine will put it on if not useful. Maybe the misty fan at petrol station also has its logic?... dry air sparks?

i tried an experiment today.
i opened the car door
got in the car
drove around
got out of the car
all without touching the metal parts of the car
then i touched a metal door knob. buzz..
so i don't think its the car
or rather
i think its the seat and my body
rather than the car

but this "antistatic grounding strap", it can discharge the static safely?
erm
what's the common brand and price range?

Rewrap your car seat to leather or don't wear synthetic fibres like rayon, polyester etc when driving, the static is not coming from the car, it's coming from you, static charge on the car is difficult to build with our constantly humid air

Hmm, put some metal stuffs in the car at places that you be touching it once a while or wear metal jewelery like watches, ring or bracelet - will it helps?

About static charge on car, there are some rumours the static started after tyres change, some say it stops after change new set tyres. I hearsay only

Suggesting to use a test pen on the metal parts and see if there's current.

i think u better get a antistatic grounding strap, at least it can prevent this:

I used to get this very often in my Citroen, until I install ionizer...

What's the relation? I also dunno... but it works.

But why I never get it in my Myvi now???....

Before you spend any unnecessary money.
Just make sure the static comes from your body or the car.

If it's from a human body, then I might suggest an anti-static mattress which discharge static while sleeping on it. Static in our body is bad for health & build up stress.

Otherwise before you touch a metal door knob, you can hold a metal key & use the key to release static to the door knob. You'll see a ZAP!

installing grounding strap won't solve the problem, the static is jumping from YOU to the car, not the other way round, meaning your car is already capable of discharging static on it's own, electricity always chooses the easiest path to flow to ground and that's through your car.

the grounding strap has to be installed on YOU instead so static doesn't build on your body, your shoes have rubber soles insulating you from ground hence you are able to carry the charge all the way until you touch something grounded then it's jumps off you.

The static comes from your shirt/trousers rubbing with the seat.

Normal dashboard or leather cleaner like "armour all" has anti static properties.
Go get a bottle and apply on all your seats. (fabric or leather also can use)

Guarantee Kautim! Why? bcos I am a driver too!
simple solution.

facing the same problem with my satria..sometime with persona..yeah..its our body act...to be exact due to our fabric rubbing the seat...only happen in 20 second after u out from the seat....

i used to get static shocks during my college days (in contact with too many computers and electronic devices).. usually door knobs, the metal railing under the table (always hold that railing when i wanted to pull my chair closer to the table), when closing the car door and occasionally the person walking behind me..

i was not working for 2 months.. in and out of cars and never experience any static shock until i returned back to work.. nothing happened in the office.. until i got out from my bro's car.. a little bit of shock when i was closing the door.. and when i am opening my house gate (stainless steel).. the next day.. when i got home.. i tried to be more careful when opening the gate.. i slowly put my fingers on the gate.. well.. i saw a spark.. from then onward, i always wait for my bro to open the gate first.. and close the car door by touching the window visor..

now it make sense.. my mom's merc is with leather seating.. no static shock as far as i remembered.. but i always get it after i got down from cars with non-leather seating.. like those in myvi, kenari..

usually discharged in a small area(finger) will be more painful,
u can try use ur whole palm to touch any metal to discharge it,
becoz bigger area of discharging will make u feel less painful hence probably u will feel nothing if u discharge with ur whole palm.

Not just rubbing on driver seat, static charge also build up easily when you have the air-cond blowing dry air at your body.