I've been looking everywhere and can not find where to get one. I know I've seen some of you guys with them and was wondering if y'all made them or where everybody bought them. So where is everybody getting them?

 

rockauto.com

Search for 'gates' or 'static straps' in the "extras" tab once you get there.

 

whats the need? i dont know the purpose or what it helps...

 

maybe this link will help explain.....



http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4203506AAMaWtJ

 

ohhhh so its b.s. got it....

 

I've heard its to help with collecting dust but I don't know?

 

You'd be completely wrong! I have had one for a little less than a year now and it keeps the dust WAY down on the exterior, if I lived in a climate that was not as dry and windy it would likely be even less. The interior also has next to no dust anymore. They do work on the dust very well, even more so if you have a well detailed car (waxed, etc..). Before the static strap if i washed my truck, within a few hours the truck had a thick coat of dust all over it; now it takes 2 weeks for that to happen.

The part that for most folks sounds like bs is the fatigue reduction.. It does work though. For me I used to get really groggy after only an hour of driving and have not experienced it much lately. For prolonged periods in the car (3+ hours) it starts to fade.

Take it with a grain of salt, but it works great for me. There will always be those like in the link above that say it can't work, won't work, and is a bad idea; then there are people like myself willing to spend the 2 bucks and find out it really does work fairly well. I was a skeptic at first too, but was tired of the damn dust..

 

I'm not sure what to think about this yet...

 

Haha, I dont care about dust on the metal because the jet setting on my water hose fixes that. I would like to get rid of static on both sides of the glass that keep gathering outragous amounts of dust.

 

So let me make sure I understand this - you dangle a rubber strap from your vehicle to the ground. This "grounds" the vehicle to dissipate static electricity? Last time I checked rubber was an insulator, not a conductor...

 

 

Kinda! Inside the rubber are wires that attach to a metal area that gets bolted to the frame. A redneck way of doing it is just bolt a 8 gauge wire to the frame to rub on the ground.

EDIT: HA HA as shown in the post above. To slow.

 

chain

 

do you just hang it off the truck or would it still work if you wrapped it around the frame? Might look kind of funny just hanging out in the breeze.

 

It has to touch/rub the ground.
I'm thinking on how much noise a chain would make?