What is the 'TOUCH' Button for?

[IrishNinja]

I am currently in my garage as I write this and I have the inner door panel off my door. I noticed that there was a wire coming from the back of the touch button to the frame of the fiber panel. What the hell is this thing for? I'm actually thinking about making it a button. Maybe to activate a door actuator or something like that. But I would really like to know it's real purpose. Can anyone help me?

[umcamara]

It's to ground yourself when you get out of the car so you don't get a shock when you touch the car, or blow yourself up when you're fueling up. The point is to touch it to discharge static electricity.

[zoomzoom]

haha im pretty sure u cant blow urself up, but ya to get rid of static charge..honestly who even uses it? lol

[umcamara]

haha im pretty sure u cant blow urself up, but ya to get rid of static charge..honestly who even uses it? lol

Uhhh... wanna bet?

[zoomzoom]

didnt myth busters prove that u cant? same deal as the whole cell phones causin explosions?

[umcamara]

I don't think I saw that one. But I've seen quite a few gas stations (not in person) that have been levelled by static electricity igniting gasoline fumes.

Either way, I wouldn't want to find out.

To me, just because two guys fail to recreate a senario (albeit they do try pretty hard), doesn't make it impossible.

[shameem]

The mythbusters episode was about cell phones and gas stations i think - however static discharge is the real killer -
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[IrishNinja]

The funny thing is, before I got a reply to this, I told my girlfriend that it's probably for grounding yourself so that you don't get shocked when you close the door. She disagreed with me and thought I was crazy. Well HA, I showed her. Another point for me. The other point I got was on good friday and half of the shoppers drugmart store that we were in was taped off. I told her, I bet it's because the law states you can only have a certain amount of square feet accessable on a holiday. She's said that it can't be that. "It's rediculous" she said. Guess what? We asked the cashier and I was right. Ha. Well that's my story.

[Kirk95gs]

The funny thing is, before I got a reply to this, I told my girlfriend that it's probably for grounding yourself so that you don't get shocked when you close the door. She disagreed with me and thought I was crazy. Well HA, I showed her. Another point for me. The other point I got was on good friday and half of the shoppers drugmart store that we were in was taped off. I told her, I bet it's because the law states you can only have a certain amount of square feet accessable on a holiday. She's said that it can't be that. "It's rediculous" she said. Guess what? We asked the cashier and I was right. Ha. Well that's my story.

Yeah that puts your count at 2 and hers at 209348586993704858405. Good job!

[fowljesse]

There was a good thread on this a while ago. It was funny. A guy got his feelings hurt.... You gotta look it up.

[Mnemonic]

i cant believe someone actually answered the question honestly, considering the 1001 threads asking the exact same question

[fowljesse]

Me, too! The answers in the past were hilarious!
We're getting soft.
If you look at the OLD threads, you can see how refined this site has become, and it started ALOT better than most.

[V8KOMX3]

yes u really can blow yourself up at a gas station with a static discharge there are vids of it happening to a guy in a ferrari on youtube or something like that. always ues your touch button.

[Mooneggs]

by pressing the touch button in my mx-3 I feel closer to my mx-3 when I drive it... it's like a personal relationship...

[umcamara]

by pressing the touch button in my mx-3 I feel closer to my mx-3 when I drive it... it's like a personal relationship...

The elusive "G-spot" perhaps??