Anybody else have this problem...every time I shut my 98cherokee off and get out I get a huge shock when I grab my door to close it? Every time!!!

 

Yeah I do too!!! I think it happens more when I'm wearing jeans and not so much with dickies work pants. I've been thinking about adding a ground wire to the seat frame.

 

Static electricity! It will come and go depending on the clothes worn type of seat or seat covers. That it why they say it is good to ground yourself by touching a metal part of your vehicle when before fueling it.

 

I'm in the habit of always bumping my elbow to the door frame as I'm getting out to ground myself before grabbing the door during the summer or if I'm wearing a jacket during the winter I'll hit the door with the back of my hand before I shut.

 

Ditch the leisure suit.

 

It's not just your Jeep... or a Jeep... I get the same thing when I step out of our Honda Odyssey. It's the material on the seat.

It's a decent shock too.. annoying as hell.

 

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Hold onto the top of the door frame as your getting out of your seat and you won't get shocked.

 

That usually works pretty well, but not always. During a recent Santa Ana wind the humidity was so low (5%), there was no way to avoid getting the **** shocked out of you. Even when I gripped the door frame like my life depended on it, I could feel the electricity arching in all the voids of skin that weren't quite touching the door.

Get leather seats or start wearing leather pants

 

That was the static charge bleeding off before it gets severe. If you do not bleed it off you will generate a lighting bolt from your finger!

 

You could just hook a ground wire to the body part of your choice.

 

I noticed it even worse when I took my carpet out, but it happens with just about every vehicle ive been in.

 

It only happens to me in the winter and not only in my XJ. I don't really wear synthetic materials, mostly cotton.

 

Hell most here have no idea what those were, wish I didn't.