When I was a child, I remember most cars having a grounding strip, like the one in the picture below:
But nowadays, I don't see any car having them. What is the reason they have disappeared / become unneeded?
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Sign up to join this communityWhen I was a child, I remember most cars having a grounding strip, like the one in the picture below:
But nowadays, I don't see any car having them. What is the reason they have disappeared / become unneeded?
Primary reason would be that vehicle electrical systems ground to the body, not to earth. They're effectively useless.
Back in the day we would often explain away customers complaints about static shocks as the fault of fiber glass belted tires. They were the cheaper alternative to steel belted tires. Maybe they were the cause or it was an excuse to upsell to steel-belts.