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Old 04-10-2006, 03:32 PM
pedropromo60 pedropromo60 is offline
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Real Name: Peter Martin
Location: Los Angeles
Hybrids: Ford Escape Hybrid
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Angry Electrocution Hazard

Has anyone else experienced this?

Our 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid is at the dealer for the 2nd time in a few months for the same problem which they can't recreate: when exiting the front passenger door, you get a really strong electric shock. Not a minor static shock, but a real bona fide open current running through your body thing.

Both times it has happened, our daughter felt the electrical current go up her arm to her elbow and felt the aftereffects for several minutes thereafter. Both times, she was closing the passenger door (so she was outside the vehicle) and only touching the door for a moment to close it, so luckily she didn't maintain contact for a long time or she could have been really burned.

After we brought the car in the first time and they couldn't replicate the situation, we took the car back. But after this last incident, we're leaving the car there until they figure it out.