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Old Oct 30, 2003
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Question People with Grounding kits

Any of you people with grounding kits- have you noticed if there is less electric shock that you get from exiting the car ?
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LOL. Nope, none. The grounding kit is designed to ground the electronics in the car to a stronger point. You should get smoother idles and starts and all that jazz. It doesn't help with static electricity discharge.
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To ground against static electricity, you'll need one of those straps that you see hanging from the underside of some the rear bumpers. I have no idea what it's called, but I'm sure you've see one. I would assume you can get one at a local auto parts store.
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yeah I have that problem all the time always when I leave or get into my car I get a shock....Damn it
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yes so it's not just me. lol her damn civic does the same thing. it's so bad some times you can actually see it arc Is it some kinda defect in the civic to make them retain so much static electricity or what? Cause I've never been in a car that was as bad as the civic. Anyone know why?
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My old beater was really bad....It was a 91 Buick I got the car for free drove it into snow banks all year long ;-) but yeah our civics are pretty bad
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OUCH!!! wtf! damn it got me again, made me drop my phone.......
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if grounding kits ONLY stopped the shocking I would definatley buy one.
too bad they don't
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no........lol not that low, god!
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^^^ WTF? lol
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who makes a good grounding kit, and where do you buy em?
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wtf..? i have never gotten shocked by my civic.. my 2¢
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Originally posted by xRiCeBoYx
wtf..? i have never gotten shocked by my civic.. my 2¢
Impossible. Unless you just bought your vic or simply don't drive it too much there had to be times where you touched metal chasis or something and got shocked.
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nah.. its a daily driver.. never have gotten shocked by it.. had it since august 02, i have 16500 miles on it.. got it with 6 miles on it..
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I had a Nissan Xterra that shocked me all of the time, but if you touch the metal of the car before you touch the ground with your feet, you won't get shocked, except I always forget to do it, but it really does work.
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Originally posted by xRiCeBoYx
wtf..? i have never gotten shocked by my civic.. my 2¢
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yeah I havn't seen any grounding kits for our cars specifically, I have only seen universal grounding kits
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http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...+grounding+kit

order it from happies
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just ordered mine, great price considering you cant find any other kit under 100 (not that I've seen), hks is 145, arospeed 120, hyper 160, and if happies basically is the same it's a great deal, the only dif I can see between his and hks/arospeed is his is series, theirs are parallel but either way they both do the job
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I've had my civic for more then a year and i have never been shocked yet either
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hey you guys want to know how to stop getting shocked take off your shoes make sure you are wearing socks and get a strip of carpet put it by the door of your car rub your feet on the carpet and then touch your car or open your door. hahahahahah
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^^^ UM yeah, Lemme just go run out and try that
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hahahaha.. me and my sister used to do that in department stores when we were bored.. hella rub our feet on the carpet and shock each other.. then touching the freakin jewelry cases with the metal edges... haha
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I have sprayed my seats with anti static cling...works for a while...I don't shock
myself so much.
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Ahahaha damn thats funny stuff. I seriously thought i was the only one. Everytime i get out i forget about it and shock myself. People looking at me like wtf. ahahahaha
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put mine in today, i still get shocked, damn it
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Grounding kits won't hurt, but don't expect huge gains. If you get black, the cables will be mostly hidden.
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maybe you guys dont know how to exit/enter your car?

BTW, more static discharge in cold, DRY air than warm, humid air.
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nah i dont expect huge gains, mostly better starts, better audio quality or louder? possibly brighter lights and possibly a lil more low end torque
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hey check this link out, arospeed has some kits for $49.99.......I might get a set....in RED hehehe

http://arospeed.com/default.php?cPat...2d328360ceebe5
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