lightning strikes, Berlingo

[Solent]

So I was driving a chum of mine a while ago through a thunderstorm and he said a car is the safest place to be in a storm as the metal cage protects anyone inside.

ok, I sad, but the modutop roof on this one is plastic. He went a bit quiet.

[ron]

I think it's called a Faraday cage?I would have thought the roof frame would be enough?

[Col]

I think it's called a Faraday cage?I would have thought the roof frame would be enough?

Indeed

[Jed Clampit]

Is it not the tyre's that stop the lightening  going to earth and not using you and the car as a conductor and the smell of burnt skin get that out of your carpet's. 

[Col]

It's the same principal as an aeroplane. They get hit about once a year. The current flows around the outside as metal conducts best.

[Kokain]

Out of all the french car's nemesis you had to struck on.......ELECTRICITY
You are lucky it didn't stop and die there and then. Mine just developed a backfire and loss of power for no reason. Knowing french it will be coilpack or spark plugs AGAIN! fak

[ricc]

rubber tyres are black cos they put carbon in the mix, carbon is a god conductor of electricity ,  lightening will go straight through the tyres to ground,  wet tyres even better,   

btw they put carbon in to stop uv light penetrating into the rubber and destroying it.

[Hughzie]