does your car shock you?

[dmorlow]

katzkin is the one's I'm having put in my car. But they don't go over the existing covering. You have to rip off the existing covering and replace it with these. I'm having mine professionally done. Probably will be a few more weeks though. My brand new car with 2,000 miles on it, I smashed it up a few days ago when a deer plowed into the side of my car. It's in the body shop now. Sad for a car that only has 2000 miles on it :-( My luck. I need to move to the city.

[MCO_Death]

Originally Posted by dmorlow

katzkin is the one's I'm having put in my car. But they don't go over the existing covering. You have to rip off the existing covering and replace it with these. I'm having mine professionally done. Probably will be a few more weeks though. My brand new car with 2,000 miles on it, I smashed it up a few days ago when a deer plowed into the side of my car. It's in the body shop now. Sad for a car that only has 2000 miles on it :-( My luck. I need to move to the city.

I live in a city, deer still are abundant... friggin Michigan.

[dmorlow]

Originally Posted by MCO_Death

While were on the topic of seat covers, anyone know of some good ones to cover the stock cloth seats... 160k of use and they are really starting to show it, bleh.

Well, I got my leather seats installed a few days ago. My car originally came with cloth seats. It looks better than a car that came with leather OEM. So I would highly recommend it. It's katzkin leather. I had mine professionally installed though. But it doesn't cover the stock cloth seats. They rip the cloth off and recover it with the leather. It wasn't too expensive. It was only $1,000 for the whole install for both front seats and the back seat. And, on top of that, I used to get shocked everytime I touched my car when getting out. Now I might get a little shock, but you can barely feel it, rather than what it was like where it felt like a bolt of lightning everytime I touched my car getting out. I wouldn't change back to cloth seats in a million years. It looks 1000 times better and the shock factor is pretty much gone.

[billyo69]

( My luck. I need to move to the city.

There are plenty of deer in the city also.They need to spray them like mosquitos!!

[wrparks]

You should try the method farmers use for static buildup on combines (wouldn't actually reccomend this). On combines, the static builds up and it will accumulate a layer of dust about 10 inches thick. We bolt a short piece of chain to the rear axle and drag it. The dust accumulates much slower. Prolly a bad idea on the highway though. If you want to guarantee a shock, get in my silverado with cloth seats wearing a wool coat. It's fire baby. I'm always scared to pump gas without touching the door first because once or twice I have seen a spark when I touched the gas nozzle.

[mrflint]

98 Lumina has really bad static shock from velour-type cloth, its far worse shock than cloth Pontiac GrandPrix seats. The Pontiac has a dense flat weave like a "potatoe sack", the Lumina cloth has a cushiony weave with millions of fibers poking upward giving more rub and shock surface. Leather seats are no problem, rather pay more and get leather next time. Lumina door handle on inside has two exposed screw heads, say away from them - ouch. When I exit car its always foot first and leg touching door frame, walking to gas cap, I'll touch body a couple of times to insure static is discharged.

Driving across Nevada desert, gas station had water flowing over driverway. Clerk said it discharges static from cars... it worked for me. In rainy weather, when everything is wet, no problem with static.

[dmorlow]

Ever since I had my cloth seats replaced with leather, I haven't been shocked off my car. That's the fix.

[crazy4nitro]

Any Feedback on those new Leather seats that were installed?..It sounds like a cool set-up.........Crazy4nitro

[dmorlow]

I love the leather seats in my car. They look better than factory. They're katskin leather seats. I also had the heated seats added also on both driver and passenger side. Still no shocking on my car either since it's been done.

[gbryan]

There is a simple remedy for static, I don't know where you guys get all this money to throw at such simple problems. I had a 86 olds cutlass with cloth seats that shocked me for years and there is a simple fix. There are products in common stores that take static out of clothes. I think the product is called static guard, it is a spray, don't remember who makes it but it will stop static for months before you need to respray again. Use it on the seat.

Come on guys, don't make things so complicated, it just cost a couple of dollars, no need to change seats or hang straps.

[crazy Jim]

'99 Grand AM SE
'02 Impala LS
'02 Trans AM WS6
'71 Cutlass Supreme SX
never been shocked by any of them although I have had cars do this in the distant past..

[SpinnerCee]

Yep -- more so when it's cold/dry outside -- but seems like everytime -- only on exit -- and every time I forget

* when it's dark, I can actually see the spark as it arcs!

[net_kitten]

I normally get shocked just looking at a car *ok, slight exaggeration* But I never had a problem with it when I had my Impala. Now if I got out of the taurus, Id get zapped every single time.
I learned to just flick somewhere on the door with the top of my finger nail before trying to close the door, and that worked for me. Or if I touched it with my elbow first it often worked too...though I dont know why that is. I do the same thing at stores with those big freezer doors or Ill get zapped there too.